ADAPT newsletters

Recent editions

Volume 18: Supporting Children’s Learning

This issue covers parent involvement in childcare and school, and the key to effective communication with your children. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 17: Reconnecting as Couples After Deployment

This issue covers how to reconnect as a couple after being apart. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 16: Ambiguous Loss & Resilience in Military Life

This issue covers how to help your children cope with ambiguity and uncertainty. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 15: Resilience in Military Families

This issue covers how parents and children can build resilience during the deployment cycle. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 14: Dealing with Injury

This issue covers teaching children to understand and cope with the injury, seen or unseen, of family service members. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 13: School Days

This issue covers why connections to daycares and schools are vital to children’s academic success. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 12: Supporting a Family Member with PTSD

This issue covers issues about how to support a family member with PTSD, and how the symptoms a family member experiences may affect your child or children. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 11: Coping with Combat Stress and PTSD

This issue covers issues about how to cope with combat stress and PTSD, and how these affect your child or children. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Your baby and toddler (Birth to 2.5 years)
Your preschooler (2.5 to 5 years)
Your school-aged child (5 to 11 years)
Your pre-teen and teenager (11 to 17 years)

Volume 10: Adapting to Reintegration – Support Systems

This issue covers issues involving adapting to reintegration by reconnecting to your support system and creating family rituals. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 9: Preparing for Reintegration – Service Member

This issue covers issues involving reintegration after deployment for the returning service member. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 8: Preparing for Reintegration – Child

This issue covers issues involving reintegration after deployment and your child. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 7: Preparing for Reintegration – Spouse/Partner

This issue covers issues involving reintegration after deployment and your spouse or partner. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 6: Rest and Recuperation

This issue covers issues surrounding taking care of yourself and your family through rest and recuperation. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 5: Deployment and Children with Special Needs

This issue covers issues surrounding helping children of different age groups understand deployment. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 4: Single, Divorced, and Blended Families

This issue covers issues surrounding single parents, divorced parents, and blended families. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 3: Co-parenting from Afar: Staying Connected

This issue covers staying connected and co-parenting during deployment. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 2: Bonding, Attachment and Separation

This issue covers how to prepare your family for deployment. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.

Volume 1: How and When to Talk about Deployment

This issue covers how to talk with your children about issues surrounding deployment. Select your child’s age group to download the newsletter with more information and helpful hints.