Parenting and Children’s Resilience in Military Families: A Twenty-First Century Perspective

Abstract

This book aims to provide a twenty-first century perspective on families in the military, one that views parenting as the engine of the military family. This new perspective reflects a shift away from an emphasis on individual differences toward understanding individuals within their social context. Such a shift provides a crucial opportunity to understand children and parents as nested within families, and families as nested within a larger military context. The theoretical stream that attempts to understand the development and adjustment of individuals within their social context includes developmental-ecological models (e.g. Bronfenbrenner, 1986), risk and resilience perspectives, and transactional models of development. All these theoretical models consider the effects of both proximal (e.g. family) and distal contexts on the individual— and the individual's influence on his/her contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)