As provider networks on military bases are overwhelmed with new cases, civilian clinicians are increasingly likely to treat military families. However, these clinicians do not receive the same military mental-healthcare training as providers on military installations, adding strain to clinicians' workloads and creating gaps in levels of treatment. Families Under Fire fills these gaps with real-world examples, clear, concise prose, and nuts-and-bolts approaches for working with military families utilizing a systems-based practice that is effective regardless of branch of service or the practitioners' therapeutic preference. Any civilian mental-health practitioner who wants to understand the diverse needs of military personnel, their spouses, and their families will rely on this indispensable guidebook for years to come. -- Provided by publisher.

Seeing systems: an introduction to systemic approaches with military families / R. Blaine Everson and Thomas G. Camp -- The military culture, language, and lifestyle / Lynn K. Hall -- Structural strategic approaches with army couples / R. Blaine Everson and Joseph R. Herzog -- Systemic therapy with adolescents in Army families / R. Blaine Everson, Joseph R. Herzog and Leigh Ann Haigler -- Systemic therapy with families of U.S. Marines / Don Catherall -- Systems approaches with Air Force members and their familes: a focus on trauma / Joseph R. Herzog, Craig Boydston and James D. Whitworth -- The use of emotionally focused couples therapy with military couples and their families / Lance Sneath and Kathryn D. Rheem -- Attachment as a consideration in family play therapy with military families / Gwendolyn W. Smith -- Spirituality and trauma during a time of war: a systemic approach to pastoral care and counseling / Alan N. Baroody -- Secondary traumatic stress, deployment phase, and military families: systemic approaches to treatment / Joseph R. Herzog and R. Blaine Everson -- In support of military women and families: challenges facing community therapists / Judith Mathewson -- Painting a moving train: preparing civilian community providers to serve returning warriors and their families / Charles "Keith" Springle and Charlotte M. Wilmer -- Post deployment: practical guidelines for warriors' loved ones / Judith A. Lyons and Natasha Elkovitch -- The long way home: the aftermath of war for service members and their families / R. Blaine Everson and Charles R. Figley -- Appendix: developmental overview and brief history of systemic family therapy / R. Blaine Everson and Thomas G. Camp.