MILT 575 Resilient Marriage and Family

This course studies the impact of military culture on service members and their families. It addresses precepts essential to the development of healthy and resilient military marriages and families. Topics include pre-deployment preparation, deployment, post-deployment reintegration, therapeutic needs, domestic violence, substance use, infidelity, divorce, and the impact of injury and death. Special emphasis is given to understanding, intervening, and treating the stresses and challenges of military families.

For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.

Work and family are two significant life domains. This course covers the relationship between the work organization and the family in the United States military. Counselors and other mental health professionals are increasingly encountering client populations that are impacted by concerns related to military operations. Service members and their families have been subjected to frequent and extended deployments during wars that have had far-reaching influence on the military families and society as a whole. The student will use a bio-psycho-social-spiritual framework to understand military families and the Service members’ who defend the United States.

Textbook readings and lecture presentations

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Course Requirements Checklist

After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Discussions (4)

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student will complete 4 Discussions in the course. The initial thread should be a minimum 400 words and the student must support his/her assertions with at least 2 scholarly citations in APA format (one of the scholarly sources must be from a course text). In addition to the initial thread, the student must reply to 2 classmates’ threads. Each reply should be a minimum of 200 words, and the student should engage in a substantive way that adds to the academic discussion and include at least 1 reference to the course texts, course teaching resources, or additional scholarly research as applicable. Current APA format must be used for all citations. (CLO: A, B, C, D)

Annotated Bibliography Assignment

The student will develop an annotated bibliography for one of the following topics: United States Military civilian spouses, children in military families, or military retirees. An annotated bibliography is a writing tool that will help the student to gain a better understanding of the topic as well as the many challenges, benefits, resiliency, and spiritual-related resources and programs. The Student will review a minimum of 8 peer-reviewed journal articles published in the past 5 years and write a maximum of a 1 paragraph summary for each article. Current APA format must be used. (CLO: A, B)

Interview U.S. Military Population Assignment

The student will select from the following: a U.S. service member (active, guard or reserve), a military civilian spouse, or a military retiree to interview and write a 3-4-page assessment. The assessment should include a brief description of the individual interviewed (while maintaining confidentiality), a list of the questions and responses, and the student’s impressions. Current APA format must be used. (CLO: A, B, C, D)

PowerPoint Presentation Assignment

The student will create an attractive, visually appealing (graphics) 14-15 slide PowerPoint presentation based on the military resiliency topic previously selected: United States Military civilian spouses, children in military families, or military retirees. The presentation will also address the importance of the selected topic, a minimum of 5 learning outcomes for a specific identified audience, the challenges, the benefits, resiliency and spiritual programs and resources, a conclusion, and a reference page. The major and subsections must be clearly supported by insights from the course texts as well as a minimum of 8 scholarly research sources cited in the text of the PowerPoint. Journal articles must be published in the past 5 years. All citations must be in current APA format. (CLO: A, B, C, D)

Quizzes (2)

There will be two objective quizzes throughout the course. The quizzes are open-book/open-notes, will consist of multiple-choice and true/false questions, and allow 1 attempt. Quiz: Midterm is limited to 1 hour and Quiz: Final is limited to 1 hour and 30 minutes. (CLO: A, B, C, D)