Fostering Family Resilience: Assessments & Online Workshops
Click on one of the links below to take you to each section.
Family Resilience through Mental Strategies
Resilience through Families and Friendships
Families with Kids Risk Factors
Enhancing Individual Resilience
Behaviors that Could Interfere with Fostering Resilience
Anxiety, Depression & Other Emotions
Family
Resilience through Mental Strategies
An Army PowerPoint workshop called "Pre-Deployment Battlemind for Spouse/Couples" describes the impacts of military deployments, how these separations can affect family life, and the actions spouses and Warfighters can engage in to manage and/or minimize the effects of deployment. The program describes mind strategies that couples can engage in to face deployments with strength and resilience for easier separations and reunions.
Resilience
through Families and Friendships
Relationship satisfaction is often hindered by small issues that can grow into big issues over time. All relationships have issues, but external stressors (like deployment) can exacerbate even the best of relationships. AfterDeployment.org is helpful for individuals having problems in their relationships. They have online resources where you can complete self-assessments and workshops about your family relationships, parenting, friendships, and couple relationships, including:
- Friendship Scale Assessment
- Marital Satisfaction Assessment
- Perceived Social Support Assessment
- Post Deployment Social Support Assessment
- Parenting Confidence Assessment
- Overcoming Isolation Workshop
- Improving Intimate Relationships Workshop
AfterDeployment.org also has an eLibrary for in-depth information.
Families with Kids Risk Factors
AfterDeployment.org has a section designated for military families with kids. It describes how one-third of children with a deployed parent are at risk for psychological and adjustment troubles. This section is designed to assess, train, and help decrease a family’s emotional strains. Each of the assessments and workshops is brief (less than 5 minutes), anonymous, and yields individualized recommendations.
- Parenting Confidence Assessment
- Caregiver Stress Assessment
- Perceived Social Support Assessment
- Satisfaction with Life Assessment
- Helping Kids Deal with Deployment Workshop
Enhancing
Individual Resilience
AfterDeployment.com has a section for Warfighters and their families specifically designed for self-assessment, learning, and helping you and your family deal well with life stress. It is designed for Warfighters post-deployment, but the information is helpful and can be used at any stage of the military cycle to bolster resilience. In addition to the family-specific information discussed above, individual factors that both detract and enhance resilience are described, with associated self-assessments:
- Resilience Assessment
- Forgiveness Assessment
- Gratitude Assessment
- Generosity Assessment
- Optimism Assessment
Spirituality
Believing in something greater than oneself is a key component of resilience. Values such as spirituality, forgiveness, optimism, gratitude, generosity, and hope have been identified as influencing individual resilience.
- Spirituality Assessment
- Forgiveness Assessment
- Optimism Assessment
- Gratitude Assessment
- Generosity Assessment
- Hope Assessment
- Seeking Spiritual Fitness Workshop
Behaviors
that Could Interfere with Fostering Resilience
Sometime the behaviors that we use to cope with stress end up causing us more stress in the long run. Our sleep behaviors, our views about seeking support, smoking, and our abilities to balance work, life and happiness sometimes get in the way of our ability to be resilient. The following are self-assessments for each of these areas:
- Sleep Assessment
- Stigma Assessment
- Work Adjustment Assessment
- Nicotine Dependence Assessment
- Alcohol and Drugs Assessment
- Balancing Your Life Workshop
- Satisfaction with Life Assessment
Anxiety,
Depression & Other Emotions
Feelings of anxiety, depression, anger, worry, panic and stress can sometimes interfere with one’s ability to be resilient. The following are assessments for each of these areas of emotion and resources for how to deal with and overcome these emotions.
