Family Communication and the Military Veteran: Relational Maintenance Strategies of Veterans Returning Home from Military Service

• In Event: Interpersonal Communication Processes in the Family Context

Abstract

Upon returning home, the soldier must deal not only with his or her issues associated with the stresses of the deployment, but also the process of readjusting to life at home and renegotiating their role in their families (Norwood, Fulerton, and Hagan, 1996). The purpose of this study was to begin exploring the family relational communicative maintenance strategies military veterans engage in upon returning home from military service.

Authors

• Richard Murphy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

• Melissa Lynn Murphy, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services