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Caring for children and youth from Canadian military families: Special considerations

Canadian Paediatric SocietyPediatrics2017Official publication

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Official Canadian Paediatric Society document (2017) on “Caring for children and youth from Canadian military families: Special considerations”. Military families experience a number of life stressors, such as frequent geographical moves, long periods of separation within the family, geographic isolation from extended family support systems and deployments to high-risk areas of the world. While children and youth in military families experience all the same developmental and motivational trajectories as their civilian counterparts, they must also contend with.

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