Support Systems
This is a group of people who provide emotional and practical support during deployment.
What is a support system?
What is the practice of remaining calm under stress and adapting positively to challenging situations?
What is emotional resilience?
This type of account helps military families manage their expenses while a spouse is deployed.
What is a savings account?
What is the communication skill where you fully focus, understand, and respond thoughtfully to your spouse?
What is active listening?
This phase occurs before the service member leaves, where families begin preparing emotionally and logistically.
What is the pre-deployment cycle?
This resource is a free, 24/7 program that provides support, information, and resources to active-duty service members, their families, and survivors.
What is Military One Source?
This technique helps military spouses manage stress and emotions by focusing on the present moment.
What is mindfulness?
This is a document that outlines your financial responsibilities, income, and expenses.
What is a budget?
This method of communication focuses on using nonjudgmental words and listening actively.
What is effective communication?
Spouses or children of deployed parents may experience this emotional reaction, characterized by behavioral changes.
What is separation anxiety?
This person can provide religious guidance as well as maintain 100% confidentiality.
What is the Chaplain?
This type of journaling can help military spouses and family members process their emotions during deployment.
What is expressive writing?
This is a type of savings account that typically yields a higher interest rate?
What is a high yield savings account?
Actively maintaining this will help ensure that the service member and their spouse are making time for each other.
What is a schedule?
This process involves the family readjusting to the service member's return and finding a new normal.
What is reintegration?
This program connects families with experienced spouses who offer mentoring and advice.
What is the Commanders Key Support Program?
This coping technique involves physical activities to manage stress, such as running or yoga.
What is exercise?
This financial safety net can protect families from unforeseen expenses during deployment.
What is an emergency fund?
These digital tools can be used to allow military members and their spouses a way to see each other during deployment, albeit over long distances.
What is video conferencing?
What legal document allows a spouse to act on behalf of a deployed partner?
What is a Power of Attorney?
These people can provide non-medical counseling to military members and their spouses before, during, and after a deployment to help them cope with stressors.
What is a Military and Family Life Counselor?
This type of stress is often considered positive stress or good stress.
What is Eustress?
This charity can provide financial and community support to Airmen, Guardians, and their families in times of need.
What is the Air Force Aid Society?
This phrase refers to the ability to understand and share feelings between partners.
What is empathy?
Couples may face this challenge when they need to re-establish responsibilities in the household.
What is redefining family roles?