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Patricia Lester
Researcher at Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Publications - 97
Citations - 3544
Patricia Lester is an academic researcher from Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. The author has contributed to research in topics: Military Family & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 93 publications receiving 3267 citations. Previous affiliations of Patricia Lester include University of California & San Francisco General Hospital.
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The Long War and Parental Combat Deployment: Effects on Military Children and At-Home Spouses
Patricia Lester,Kris Peterson,James Reeves,Larry Knauss,Dorie A. Glover,Catherine Mogil,Naihua Duan,William R. Saltzman,Robert S. Pynoos,Katherine Wilt,William R. Beardslee +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of deployments on military children and found that parental combat deployment has a cumulative effect on children that remains even after the deployed parent returns home, and that is predicted by psychological distress of both the AD and AHC parent.
The Long War and Parental CombatDeployment: Effects on MilitaryChildren and At-Home Spouses
Patricia Lester,Kris Peterson,James Reeves,Larry Knauss,Dorie A. Glover,Catherine Mogil,Naihua Duan,William Saltzman,Robert S. Pynoos,Katherine Wilt,William Beardslee +10 more
TL;DR: Findings indicate that parental combat deployment has a cumulative effect on children that remains even after the deployed parent returns home, and that is predicted by psychological distress of both the AD and AHC parent.
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Mechanisms of risk and resilience in military families: theoretical and empirical basis of a family-focused resilience enhancement program.
William R. Saltzman,Patricia Lester,William R. Beardslee,Christopher M. Layne,Kirsten Woodward,William P. Nash +5 more
TL;DR: The theoretical and empirical foundation and rationale for FOCUS (Families OverComing Under Stress), a family-centered, resilience-enhancing program developed by a team at UCLA and Harvard Schools of Medicine, are described and specific mechanisms that mobilize and enhance resilience in military families are proposed.
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Family systems and ecological perspectives on the impact of deployment on military families.
TL;DR: Family systems and ecological perspectives are utilized to advance understanding of how military families negotiate repeated deployment experiences and how such experiences impact the well-being and adjustment of families at the individual, dyadic, and whole family level.
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Evaluation of a family-centered prevention intervention for military children and families facing wartime deployments.
Patricia Lester,William R. Saltzman,Kirsten Woodward,Dorie A. Glover,Gregory A. Leskin,Brenda Bursch,Robert S. Pynoos,William R. Beardslee +7 more
TL;DR: Evaluation data provided preliminary support for a strength-based, trauma-informed military family prevention program to promote resiliency and mitigate the impact of wartime deployment stress.