Family-Centered Preventive Intervention for Military Families: Implications for Implementation Science

Abstract

In this paper, we report on the development and dissemination of a preventive intervention, Families Over-Coming Under Stress (FOCUS), an eight-session family-centered intervention for families facing the impact of wartime deployments. Specific attention is given to the challenges of rapidly deploying a prevention program across diverse sites, as well as to key elements of implementation success. FOCUS, developed by a UCLA-Harvard team, was disseminated through a large-scale demonstration project funded by the United States Bureau of Navy Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) beginning in 2008 at 7 installations and expanding to 14 installations by 2010. Data are presented to describe the range of services offered, as well as initial intervention outcomes. It proved possible to develop the intervention rapidly and to deploy it consistently and effectively

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA553148

Entities

People

  • Catherine Mogil
  • Gregory Leskin
  • Kirsten Woodward
  • Lee Klosinski
  • Patricia Lester
  • Robert Koffman
  • W. A. Nash
  • William Beardslee
  • William Saltzman

Organizations

  • Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Brain Injuries
  • Deployment
  • Families (Human)
  • Health Services
  • Human Behavior
  • Human Development
  • Iraqi-War
  • Medical Personnel
  • Mental Disorders
  • Military Families
  • Military Personnel
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychological Adaptation
  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • United States

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Medical or Health Care Field.
  • Psychological Intervention/Treatment for Stress, Anxiety, PTSD, and Related Emotional and Cognitive Health Symptoms.