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Military Teens Face Unique Mental Health Challenges

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• "Back from the Front: Combat Trauma, Love, and the Family" (Brooklandville, Md.: Sidran Institute Press, 2007).

• "Courage After Fire: Coping Strategies for Returning Soldiers and Their Families" (Berkeley, Calif.: Ulysses Press, 2005).

• "I Miss You!: A Military Kid’s Book About Deployment" (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007).

• "Night Catch" (Jamestown, N.D.: Bubble Gum Press, 2005).

• "100 days and 99 nights" (New York: Little, Brown and Co. Books for Young Readers, 2008).

• "Sometimes We Were Brave" (Honesdale, Pa.: Boyds Mills Press, 2010).

• "The Fathers Are Coming Home" (New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2010).

Websites

• "Courage to Care, Courage to Talk About War Injuries," developed by the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress.

• "Military Child Bill of Rights."

National Military Family Association.

Operation Child Care.

Operation: Military Kids.

• Song and video: "The Price of Peace."

• Video (58 minutes): "Returning From the War Zone: A Guide for Families of Military Members," created by the National Center for PTSD.

Salute Our Services.

• SOAR (Student Online Achievement Resources).

Students at the Center: An Education Resource for Families, the Military, and Schools.

• "Talk, Listen, Connect: Deployments, Homecomings, Changes."

United Through Reading.

Veteran Parenting Toolkit, created by the Oklahoma City VA Family Mental Health Program.

• "Welcome Back Parenting: A Guide for Reconnecting Families After Military Deployment."

• DVD: "Young Children on the Homefront: Family Stories, Family, Strengths," developed by the nonprofit organization Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families.

• "Operation: Military Kids."

• "Young Heroes: Military Deployment Through the Eyes of Youth."