| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Colonel Carl A. Castro Ph.D -- Introduction: the meaning and importance of military resilience / Thomas W. Britt, Robert R. Sinclair, and Anna C. McFadden -- Understanding resilience: personal and organizational determinants -- Personality and psychological resilience in military personnel / Robert R. Sinclair, Melissa C. Waitsman, Celina M. Oliver, and Marilyn Nicole Deese -- Morale and cohesion as contributors to resilience / Thomas W. Britt and Kalifa Oliver -- Situational factors and resilience: facilitating adaptation to military stressors / Steve M. Jex, Jason Kain, and YoungAh Park -- The role of transformational and ethical leadership in building and maintaining resilience / Allister MacIntyre, Danielle Charbonneau, and Damian O'Keefe -- Building resilience: models and programs -- Building psychological resilience in military personnel / Julia M. Whealin, Josef I. Ruzek, and Edward M. Vega -- Fostering resilience across the deployment cycle / Neil Greenberg -- Resilience in military families: a review of programs and empirical evidences / Kathleen M. Wright, Lyndon A. Riviere, Julie C. Merrill, and Oscar A. Cabrera -- Comprehensive soldier fitness: underscoring the facts, dismantling the fiction / Paul B. Lester, Sharon McBride, and Rhonda L. Cornum -- Military resilience: conclusions and future directions -- Military resilience: remaining questions and unresolved issues / Robert R. Sinclair and Thomas W. Britt -- Resilience in a military occupational health context: directions for future research / Amy B. Adler. |
| Summary |
"Efforts to exclude the less resilient from serving in the military represent a narrow and flawed understanding of what resilience is and the potential for resilience building to enhance the strength of a military. We must focus on the strengths that every individual possesses rather than the weaknesses. We must focus on team building and leadership and avoid adopting an individualistic and elitist model that harkens back to the medieval mind-set. The field of military resilience holds the promise to fundamentally transform the military in ways that are just now being imagined; to limit this potential by focusing efforts on identifying and excluding those we deem less resilient will certainly retard this potential. The contents of this book rightly focus on achieving these goals by addressing two major areas: understanding the nature and determinants of resilience in military settings, and describing methods and techniques for building resilience. Although it can be argued that resilience is a somewhat nebulous construct that has many definitions, the present volume tackles this problem by attempting to inform an improved definition for the betterment of both military personnel and their families. As advances in military resilience are realized, we must never forget that military service is fundamentally about preparing for and fighting and winning our nation's wars, which is achieved through teamwork and leadership"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Psychology, Military.
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Resilience (Personality trait) -- Study and teaching.
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Soldiers -- Mental health services -- United States.
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Soldiers -- United States -- Psychology.
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War -- Psychological aspects.
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Psychology, Military.
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Military Personnel.
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Warfare.
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| Added Author |
Sinclair, Robert R.
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Britt, Thomas W., 1966-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Building psychological resilience in military personnel. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2013] 9781433813313 (DLC) 2013001884 (OCoLC)825106779 |
| ISBN |
9781433813313 (electronic bk.) |
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1433813319 (electronic bk.) |
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