Table 1.

ADAPT Curriculum

Session	Title	Main Content
1	Building Blocks of Resilience	Introduction with emphasis on coping skills to promote healthy families in context of reintegration following deployment; identifying strengths in military families and deployment-related stressors.
2	Encouraging Cooperation	Promoting children’s cooperation through use of effective parental directions.
3	Teaching New Behavior	Parents as children’s most important teachers: effective teaching strategies using contingent positive encouragement.
4	Recognizing Emotions	Observing & labeling emotions; mindfulness
5	Responding to Emotions	Recognizing and responding to difficult emotions, renegotiation of family roles after deployment.
6	Setting Limits	Effective discipline with children.
7	Follow Through	Establishing family rules and strategies for negative sanctions.
8	Communicating with Children	Active listening skills, family meetings, introduction to emotion coaching.
9	Problem Solving	Strategies to anticipate and address stressors, problematic family situations, and plan positive family activities.
10	Managing Conflict	Builds upon sessions 4, 5, 8, and 9 to manage family conflicts, addressing children’s deployment-related anxieties.
11	Monitoring Children	Keeping children safe; tracking children’s whereabouts, peers.
12	Promoting School Success	Positive involvement in academic development at home and at school; home-school communication regarding deployment.
13	Linking Home and School	Emotional regulation, positive parenting practices, and problem-solving home-school communication.
14	Balancing Work and Play	Planning for work and play as parents and a couple. Negotiating future deployments.