Counseling Military Families: What Mental Health Professionals Need to Know

How does the military really work? What issues are constants for military families, and what special stresses do they face? Counseling Military Families provides the best available overview of military life, including demographic information and examples of military family issues. Chapters focus on vital issues such as the unique circumstances of reservists, career service personnel, spouses, and children, and present treatment models and targeted interventions tailored for use with military families. Counseling Military Families provides clinicians with the tools they need to make a difference in the lives of families in transition, including those who may have an ingrained resistance to asking for help and who may be available for counseling for a relatively short period of time.

Lynn K. Hall, EdD, is a former dean of the College of Social Sciences at the University of Phoenix and a former counselor educator at Western New Mexico University. Before working as a school counselor for the US Department of Defense Dependents Schools in Germany, she had a practice in marriage and family therapy in Tucson, Arizona. She has written and presented extensively about work with the families of military service members.