When a Military Parent Deploys or Returns
- The Department of Defense Healthy Parenting Initiative has many wonderful resources relating to deployment including Q&A sheets, fact sheets, and checklists.
- Find out how to prepare your kids for a military parent’s return from active duty.
- Parents Called to Active Duty: Helping Children Cope—from the National Association of School Psychologists.
- Resilience in a Time of War—Advice for families adjusting when a family member returns from military service.
- My Book About The War And Terrorism: A Guided Activity Workbook for Children, Families and Teachers to promote healthy expression, learning and coping—this 104 page kids’ book from the Children’s Psychological Health Center is available for $19.00 from Amazon.com. The book includes a guide for how to use it in developmentally appropriate ways, straightforward explanations of history and current events related to the war in Iraq, and lots of space for kids to color, draw, and write down their ideas and feelings about the war, terrorism, and conflict.
- Talking to kids about war and terrorism.
- Books:
Compiled by Kyla Boyse, R.N. Reviewed by faculty and staff at the University of Michigan
Updated May 2008
U-M Health System Related Sites:
Department of Psychiatry
U-M Pediatrics
