TY - JOUR
T1 - Military children
T2 - Unique risks for mental health and wellbeing and implications for school-based social work support
AU - Frederick, John
AU - Siebler, Philip
N1 - Funding Information:
The high school is located near a military base and the school receives some funding from the Department of Defense for a School Liaison Officer (SLO), who has tried to talk to Sam. She commented that: “He was polite, but he wasn’t interested in talking to me … I’m meeting with his mother soon and with the teachers.”
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2023/3/27
Y1 - 2023/3/27
N2 - Children in military families experience a unique combination of stressors associated with military life that may affect every stage of their lives, including their mental health, as well as disrupt their schooling and consequent social, emotional, and academic development. A review of the key issues faced by children is presented including the challenges in providing school-based social work support. A case vignette is used to illustrate how an ecological framework can address many of the unique aspects of military life that affect children, such as mobility, multiple deployments, recent relocation, mental health and wellbeing, family stress, and their impact on social, emotional, and academic outcomes.
AB - Children in military families experience a unique combination of stressors associated with military life that may affect every stage of their lives, including their mental health, as well as disrupt their schooling and consequent social, emotional, and academic development. A review of the key issues faced by children is presented including the challenges in providing school-based social work support. A case vignette is used to illustrate how an ecological framework can address many of the unique aspects of military life that affect children, such as mobility, multiple deployments, recent relocation, mental health and wellbeing, family stress, and their impact on social, emotional, and academic outcomes.
KW - military children
KW - school environment
KW - mental health
KW - ecological framework
KW - deployment
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/wscs20
U2 - 10.1080/00377317.2023.2189469
DO - 10.1080/00377317.2023.2189469
M3 - Article
SN - 0037-7317
VL - 92
SP - 219
EP - 239
JO - Smith College Studies in Social Work
JF - Smith College Studies in Social Work
IS - 4
ER -