Since the start of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, more than two million men and women have deployed to a combat zone. As a result of spending months, and if you consider the totality of the wars, what could be years for some, these individuals are faced with myriad adjustment issues upon return home.
If you work with service members and veterans the one sure thing you can count on is that many will be struggling with accepting changes that occurred in their children during their absence.
For some children, the change will be minor and largely unrelated to your client’s deployment. A good example is a two year-old who says “no” to just about everything. This response is unlikely to be because one of the parents has been absent. It is more likely a result of normal toddler development.
[For more of this story, written by Bret Moore, go to http://pro.psychcentral.com/ch...ctions/0014461.html#]
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