Christensen, Sarah_MED_2020

Title Christensen, Sarah_MED_2020
Alternative Title BIBLIOTHERAPY FOR MILITARY FAMILIES
Creator Christensen, Sarah
Collection Name Master of Education
Description Military families are subject to difficult circumstances they encounter because of the military lifestyle. Deployment, relocation, and reintegration are a few aspects of military life that can take a toll on service members and their families. Many families experience negative impacts related to military life such as maltreatment, social and emotional struggles, developmental complications, marriage conflict, etc. Without forms of resilience, soldiers and their families are more likely to see negative impacts. For this purpose, several programs are accessible to soldiers and their families. Unfortunately, not all military families are aware of the resources available to them and not all programs are suitable for each families' needs. Bibliotherapy is a form of therapy that could be used for resilience and is recommended for service members and their families in this article. Bibliotherapy uses literature for healing and has been shown to help children experiencing separation, death, stress, and other similar struggles that military families face. The focus of this project was to create a book for military children that could be used for bibliotherapy. In order to determine what topics would be most helpful for soldiers and their family members, qualitative research methods were used to interview a select number of military member's spouses about the problems associated with deployment and other components of military life. The results indicated that these families experienced negative impacts and that they would have benefited from more forms of resilience such as bibliotherapy. The transcripts from the interviews were used to create a children's book based on the findings.
Subject Family
Keywords Bibliotherapy; Military lifestyle
Digital Publisher Stewart Library, Weber State University
Date 2019
Language eng
Rights The author has granted Weber State University Archives a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce their theses, in whole or in part, in electronic or paper form and to make it available to the general public at no charge. The author retains all other rights.
Source University Archives Electronic Records; Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction. Stewart Library, Weber State University
OCR Text Show
Format application/pdf
ARK ark:/87278/s61s6gy6
Setname wsu_smt
ID 96801
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s61s6gy6