Airman and Family Resilience: Lessons from the Scientific Literature

This final overarching study in a series documents research and recommendations RAND offered to the Air Force to help strengthen the development of a new office responsible for monitoring and promoting resilience among Air Force Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force families. Efforts to boost re...

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Published in:Rand health quarterly 2016-01, Vol.5 (3), p.10-10
Main Authors: Meadows, Sarah O, Miller, Laura L, Robson, Sean
Format: Article
Language:English
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Military Health
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Summary:This final overarching study in a series documents research and recommendations RAND offered to the Air Force to help strengthen the development of a new office responsible for monitoring and promoting resilience among Air Force Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force families. Efforts to boost resilience have become an important military response to suicide and other markers of distress and poor health. The study reviews the concepts and measures of resilience, resilience factors, hardiness and flourishing. It describes how resilience and the military's Total Force Fitness concepts are related. The study brings together highlights from the eight companion studies on each Total Force Fitness domain and characterizes types of Air Force data that could be used to track resilience.
ISSN:2162-8254
2162-8254