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GROWING UP IN ARMYVILLE
CANADA'S MILITARY FAMILIES DURING THE AFGHANISTAN MISSION |
| By: |
Deborah Harrison, Patrizia Albanese |
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Paperback |
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£33.95 |
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£32.93 |
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| ISBN 10: |
177112234X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781771122344 |
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| Publisher: |
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2016 |
| Pages: |
215 |
| Description: |
"It examines the adolescents who attended the pseudonymous "Armyville High School" between 2006 and 2010 and how they were affected by their parents' involvement in the Canadian military mission in Afghanistan. The book shows how the "Armyville" school district was unprepared to offer an effective response in support of its students."-- |
| Synopsis: |
It was 2006, and eight hundred soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) base in pseudonymous Armyville, Canada, were scheduled to deploy to Kandahar. Many students in the Armyville school district were destined to be affected by this and several subsequent deployments. These deployments, however, represented such a new and volatile situation that the school district lacked -- as indeed most Canadians lacked -- the understanding required for an optimum organisational response. This book provides a close-up look at the adolescents who attended Armyville High School (AHS) between 2006 and 2010. How did their mental health compare with that of their peers elsewhere in Canada? How were their lives affected by the Afghanistan mission -- at home, at school, among their friends, and when their parents returned with post-traumatic stress disorder? How did the youngsters cope with the stress? What did their efforts cost them? Based on questions from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, administered to all youth attending AHS in 2008, and on in-depth interviews with sixty-one of the youth from CAF families, this book provides some answers.It also documents the partnership that occurred between the school district and the authors research team. Beyond its research findings, this pioneering book considers the past, present, and potential role of schools in supporting children who have been affected by military deployments. It also assesses the broader human costs to CAF families of their enforced participation in the volatile overseas missions of the twenty-first century. |
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Canada |
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
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