Considering the traumatic effects of war on men, women, and children, compare the career issues affecting military personnel returning to civilian life to those who have not been in the military. This situation can affect all family members, including children in school, so please include partners and children in this discussion as it relates to career development. As part of your post, include your strategies for advocating for these clients' career and educational development. These sections in the posting needs to include the headings. Response Guidelines Respond to two peers regarding their assessment of the issues facing military personnel returning to civilian life and issues experienced by their families. Explain where your assessment was similar and different from theirs. Provide constructive feedback on your peers' proposed strategies. I have provided you with two postings from my peers. I need a response with at least one reference to each peers's posting. I pay $20.00. First peer posting Military Families Military personnel returning to civilian life affects not only the military personnel, the return affects the military person’s family, wives, husbands, children, parents, etc. are all affected in this transition.  Common challenges for returning military personnel include; trying to relate to people who are outside of the military who do not understand what the military person has experienced, trying to fit into a family who had adjusted to the military person’s absence, trying to reconnect with their children, who may not have seen their parent for a long time, and trying to reconnect with a unfamiliar society which have different rules than the military. ("Military personnel," 2012) Military Jobs and Careers  Not only do military personnel have to learn to reconnect with their families, they have to learn how find a job, or a career outside of the military.  In the military, there is structure.  Everyone knows their place.  In civilian life, structure takes time to build, the military person has to relearn how to adjust to the uncertainty of outside life. Depending on the age of the military person, or if they had a career in the military, they may have to learn how to complete a resume, apply for a job, and learn how to interview for a job. Military personnel also have to figure out which of their military skills will convert to civilian jobs. Once in the job or career, military people have to understand, in the civilian world, jobs are based on individual progress, where as in the military, assignments are completed as a group effort. ("Military personnel," 2012) Advocating for Career and Education Development The strategies for advocating for military personnel’s career and education development are to help the military personnel gain access to services provided by the military. Although there military social workers who help the military personnel gain access to these services, they are small in number compared to how m.

1. Considering the traumatic effects of war on men, women, and
children, compare the career issues affecting military personnel
returning to civilian life to those who have not been in the
military. This situation can affect all family members, including
children in school, so please include partners and children in
this discussion as it relates to career development. As part of
your post, include your strategies for advocating for these
clients' career and educational development. These sections in
the posting needs to include the headings.
Response Guidelines
Respond to two peers regarding their assessment of the issues
facing military personnel returning to civilian life and issues
experienced by their families. Explain where your assessment
was similar and different from theirs. Provide constructive
feedback on your peers' proposed strategies. I have provided
you with two postings from my peers. I need a response with at
least one reference to each peers's posting. I pay $20.00.
First peer posting
Military Families
Military personnel returning to civilian life affects not only the
military personnel, the return affects the military person’s
family, wives, husbands, children, parents, etc. are all affected
in this transition. Common challenges for returning military
personnel include; trying to relate to people who are outside of
the military who do not understand what the military person has
experienced, trying to fit into a family who had adjusted to the
military person’s absence, trying to reconnect with their
children, who may not have seen their parent for a long time,
and trying to reconnect with a unfamiliar society which have
different rules than the military. ("Military personnel," 2012)
Military Jobs and Careers
Not only do military personnel have to learn to reconnect with
their families, they have to learn how find a job, or a career

2. outside of the military. In the military, there is structure.
Everyone knows their place. In civilian life, structure takes
time to build, the military person has to relearn how to adjust to
the uncertainty of outside life. Depending on the age of the
military person, or if they had a career in the military, they may
have to learn how to complete a resume, apply for a job, and
learn how to interview for a job. Military personnel also have to
figure out which of their military skills will convert to civilian
jobs. Once in the job or career, military people have to
understand, in the civilian world, jobs are based on individual
progress, where as in the military, assignments are completed as
a group effort. ("Military personnel," 2012)
Advocating for Career and Education Development
The strategies for advocating for military personnel’s career and
education development are to help the military personnel gain
access to services provided by the military. Although there
military social workers who help the military personnel gain
access to these services, they are small in number compared to
how many military persons who need these benefits, therefor,
counselors outside the military need to step up, learn everything
they can pertaining to the military and these benefits and help
military personnel gain access to these deserved benefits. The
military provides preparation counseling checklist, which gives
military personnel a chance to have access to information about
financial planning, resume writing, interview skills, job
counseling and placement services. (Rausch, 2013) Career
counselors for military personnel should understand that
military veterans see life from a different perspective. The
military perspective. The military is a culture all on its own and
any choices military personnel look at and choose are based on
their military experience. Career counselors need to be aware of
this perspective and have the tools necessary to help military
personnel. By conceptualizing the experiences of military
personnel, career counselors can use the contextual action
theory which uses goal setting to help military personnel have a

3. structure, similar to when they were in the military. This will
help military personnel who may feel overwhelmed by all of the
steps needed to integrate themselves back into civilian life.
References
Common challenges during re-adjustment to civilian life.
(2012). Retrieved from
http://www.va.gov/vetsinworkplace/docs/em_challengesReadjus
t.html
Rausch, M. A. (2013, June 1, 2014). Contextual career
counseling fortransitioning military veterans.
Journal of Employment Counseling
. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-1920.2014.00044.x
Second Peer Posting
Career Issues
Career issues affecting military personnel returning to civilian
life is much different than those who have never been in the
military. That is why all branches of the military are required to
provide preseperation counseling and to offer transition
assistance workshops to aid in returning to civilian life
(Clemens & Milsom, 2008). Without transition assistance
services and little or no work experience, some enlisted service
members reenter civilian life with little direction or
understanding of the civilian world of work (Clemens &
Milsom, 2008). Career challenges faced by service-members
returning to civilian life include loss of purpose. Although a
lack of purpose can be a challenge for those who are non-
service members, this can be more challenging for service
members seeking employment who no longer felt they were
contributing to an important communal effort. This feeling can
be intensified when veterans can’t find jobs they feel are
important and drew upon their skills (Ahern et al., 2015).
Another challenge service members face during transition to

4. civilian life is the task of taking care of oneself. Service
members have described the environment in terms reminiscent
of the care of a family would provide to a child such as holding
their hand, a safety net, and comfort. Once many of them
transition to civilian life, they don’t understand how much of
this works because there was always a system where everything
made sense for them (Ahern et al., 2015). This system does not
apply to civilian life, one member stated all of sudden he had to
take care of himself and make his own decisions.” This dilemma
creates a huge challenge for career counselors as it relates to
decision making and career development. Transition to civilian
life is also challenging for family members of service members.
When enlisted, military personnel and their families move 4
times the rate of civilian families. Thus, the frequent moves
associated with military service might decrease the likelihood
of individual’s knowledge of specific career opportunities
through established professional or social networks (Clemens &
Milsom, 2008).
Strategies for advocating
Career counselors can normalize the change from veteran to
civilian by employing the skills learned and qualities developed
while serving. This approach can help military personnel see
their military service as part of their overall, continuous life-
long career. Another strategy for advocating is collaborating
with other counselors. Career counselors can collaborate with
other professionals in their institution or agency, particularly in
veteran’s affairs. Career counselors can also establish
relationships with college counselors to suggest courses or
vocational rehab counselors to develop educational plans for
veterans with service connected disabilities (Miles, 2014).
References
Ahern, J., Worthen, M., Masters, J., Lippman, S.A., Ozer, E.J.,
& Moos, R. (2015). The challenges of
Afghanistan and Iraq veterans transition from military to
civilian life and approaches to

5. reconnection.
PLoS ONE, 10
(7), 1-13.
Clemens, E.V., Milsom, A.S. (2008). Enlisted service members
transition into the civilian world of work:
A cognitive information processing approach.
The Career Development Quarterly, 56,
246-256.
Miles, R.A. (2014). Career counseling strategies and challenges
for transitioning veterans.
Career
Planning and Adult Development Journal, 30
(3), 123-135.