Course Outline:
1. Introduction
2. Understanding resilience in military families
o What is resilience?
o How do we promote resilience?
o Risk and resiliency factors reviewed
3. General tips and skills for promoting resiliency in military families
o Resiliency in couples
o Strategies for promoting resilient couples
o What is CBT?
o Cognitive distortions
o Communication training
o Problem solving
o Scheduling pleasurable activities
o Resiliency in children
o A model of resilience for children
4. Specific tips and skills for promoting resiliency in families throughout the
deployment cycle
o Deployment cycle
a. Pre-deployment
- Tips for coping pre-deployment: couples
- Tips for coping pre-deployment: children
b. Deployment
- Research on long distance relationships (LDRs)
- Tips for coping deployment: couples
- Tips for coping deployment: children
c. Post-deployment
- Tips for coping post-deployment: couples
- Tips for coping post-deployment: children