Last Updated 9/11/2016
Family Counseling is a term that sounds like a subset of Psychology or Social Work. That’s because that is the typical case. We take the view that our peer support groups are a better venue for these issues for all the same reasons that they work better for our Warriors than modalities – they have an atmosphere of intense empathy. Just as our Warriors respond so much better to empathy than “Treatment”, so, we believe will their families. To that end, we organize Peer groups among spouses (as well as blood relatives) that are very similar in structure and purpose as those attended by our Warriors, and we are confident that they will be just as effective at the end of the day.
Just as our Warriors lead lives (particularly when deployed) that are fundamentally different from those enjoyed by their civilian peers, so too do their Partners. For that reason, we firmly believe that peer groups are the way to go for dependants as well as the Warriors themselves. It has been said that Law Enforcement personnel and their spouses, much like military personnel and their dependents, live lives where pervasive danger is always present, and any time they walk out the door, there is the possibility that they won’t come home. This is true – but it is a lot more among our Warriors. At the end of the day, they are both public servants who run to the sound of the guns instead of away from it. The principal distinction is that our Warriors do that more often and more intensely than their brethren in Law Enforcement. This similarity does not, however, in any way degrade or lessen the effectiveness of peer groups. Rather, it strengthens the argument for such groups for Law Enforcement personnel rather than diminish it for our Warriors.
Family Counseling is a term that sounds like a subset of Psychology or Social Work. That’s because that is the typical case. We take the view that our peer support groups are a better venue for these issues for all the same reasons that they work better for our Warriors than modalities – they have an atmosphere of intense empathy. Just as our Warriors respond so much better to empathy than “Treatment”, so, we believe will their families. To that end, we organize Peer groups among spouses (as well as blood relatives) that are very similar in structure and purpose as those attended by our Warriors, and we are confident that they will be just as effective at the end of the day.
Just as our Warriors lead lives (particularly when deployed) that are fundamentally different from those enjoyed by their civilian peers, so too do their Partners. For that reason, we firmly believe that peer groups are the way to go for dependents as well as the Warriors themselves. It has been said that Law Enforcement personnel and their spouses, much like military personnel and their dependents, live lives where pervasive danger is always present, and any time they walk out the door, there is the possibility that they won’t come home. This is true – but it is a lot more among our Warriors. At the end of the day, they are both public servants who run to the sound of the guns instead of away from it. The principal distinction is that our Warriors do that more often and more intensely than their brethren in Law Enforcement. This similarity does not, however, in any way degrade or lessen the effectiveness of peer groups. Rather, it strengthens the argument for such groups for Law Enforcement personnel rather than diminish it for our Warriors.