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Resilience is a concept that is as old as war itself. This is because it describes one of the military’s fundamental tasks: to maintain or restore individual functional capacity and well-being in the face of extreme adversity. In recent years, resilience has become an organizing principle for program and service development across the U.S. Department of Defense and the various service branches. All of these efforts are focused on promoting individual resilience. Although these are essential military goals and are central to force readiness and force preservation, the primary focus on the individual often overlooks a growing body of research that suggests that one of the best ways to improve the resilience and well-being of all military family members, including the service member, is to enhance the health and functionality of the family as a whole (Luthar 2006; Saltzman et al. 2011; Walsh 2003). This expanding research has led to the coining of the term family resilience and the development of theoretical models that identify specific family level characteristics and processes that either support or undermine the protective, supportive, and healing capacities of the family (Saltzman et al. 2011; Walsh 2003).
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