The VSA Model: When Military Father's Return Home

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When Military fathers or mothers return from military deployment, there is usually a significant amount of adjustment needed to be made. Depending on the length of stay while deployed, many families find themselves having to re-adjust to having their loved one back home again.
The VSA model describes family transitions and its adaptability as “adaptive processes, which play a central role in in the model, are the ways in which individuals and families cope with everyday hassles. They are critical to our application of the model because they moderate the associations between daily hassles and family wellbeing” (Price, Bush, & Price, 2017, p. 40). In this case, it is important to note that when military mothers/fathers return home from military

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