Robertson, Meghan Michelle2010-07-282010-07-2820102010-07-28http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2912This study investigated the subjectively constructed narratives of how veterans’ retrospective experiences of trying to balance career and parental roles. Narrative-oriented inquiry (NOI), which has not been used as a framework in previous research within the area of work-family balance in general and within research involving military families more specifically, was the primary orienting methodology in the current study. Five veterans, all male and who currently reside in the area of Victoria BC, participated in the process of co-constructing their individual 1st-person narratives with the primary researcher. The six stages of Arvay’s (2002) Collaborative Narrative Method were used as the guiding framework for the creation of these narratives. Implications that came out of these narratives in regards to future research and counselling practice are also discussed.enAvailable to the World Wide Webmilitary familiesmilitary parentswork-family balancework-family conflictUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Psychology::Social psychologyUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Education::Educational counselingUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Education::Educational psychologyThesis