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The New Norm-Military School Children, Deployments, and After
Program Code:
FS01
Date:
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Time:
2:00 PM to 3:20 PM
EST
SPEAKER
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Sharon W. Cooper, MD, FAAP, is a Developmental & Forensic Pediatrician at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the largest Army installation in the world and a retired colonel who has cared for military patients for more than 3 decades. She serves on the faculty of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
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Description
This presentation will provide a thorough description of the numerous stresses experienced by children who are growing up in military families. There will be a specific emphasis on the challenges for children who are in kinship care with a deployed single parent, children who develop pathologic coping mechanisms to the life of a military family, and strategies that can be advanced to assist this important and often overlooked part of our society.