Post-Traumatic Growth
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Long-term pain is a common comorbidity for people with acquired brain injury. This chapter explores what it is like to live with those two conditions, focusing on the meaning for the individual. The meaning of pain plays a part in... more
The notion of post-traumatic growth helps us to understand how clients attain resilience and how similar processes might unfold for practitioners through vicarious growth. A study was conducted exploring the understanding and experiences... more
[AMAZON LINK BELOW TO BOOK ITSELF -- TOC and book summary in downloadable .pdf] According to the poet Elias Canetti, "All the things one has forgotten / scream for help in dreams." To the ancient Egyptians they were prophecies, and... more
From 'Mindfulness in Positive Psychology' (Chapter 8) Eds. I. Itzvan & T. Lomas (Routledge, 2016) Intense encounters with mortality - such as a diagnosis of a terminal illness or a sudden brush with mortality due to an accident or... more
The aim of this chapter is to discuss some psychological aspects of mass casualty incidents. The chapter starts with describing some historic mass casualty incidents and defining these types of incidents. The chapter then continues to... more
Literature has until recently focused mainly on the traumatic dimension of school bullying and the negative consequences for the victims, giving less emphasis to mental resilience and post-traumatic growth. Furthermore, recent research... more
It is not altogether uncommon, in the aftermath of traumatic life events, for individuals and groups to report that they have had experiences and faced processes that have led to significant personal changes and positive psychological... more
Objective: Attending to the potential impacts, both positive and negative, of clinical work with trauma survivors on professionals themselves is a crucial aspect of clinical training and supervision. Vicarious resilience refers to unique,... more
Psychoanalysis and pastoral theology raise serious concerns about the field termed “positive psychology” by its proponents. The field’s construction of psychoanalysis as the “negative” straw person against which it claims to have... more
ABSTRACT The experience of sensing the presence of the deceased is a common occurrence following bereavement. Although this experience tends to be reported as positive and meaningful by perceivers, for most of the twentieth century it... more
Some work I've done on looking at promoting Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) for those combat veterans suffering from Moral Injury, with a "glance over" look at comparing Moral Injury to PTSD.
Este artigo deu sequência ao que foi requerido como trabalho de grupo para a unidade curricular designada por Avaliação Psicológica: efetuar um relatório psicológico intermédio. Para o efeito, efetuámos uma entrevista semiestruturada (a... more
A gap exists in both research and practice when it comes to issues related to girls within the school-to-prison pipeline. Girls are also often ignored in the educational literature about trauma. Educators tend to take a deficit approach... more
Self-care is fundamental to mental health practitioner training and professional efficacy. Expressive writing about stressful events has been researched and shown to have positive physical and psychological effects. Mindfulness, an... more
In this brief paper I would like to draw attention to the concept of attestation or testimony as developed in modern European philosophy and its significance for the theory and practice of psychotherapy.
The monograph is devoted to the peculiarities of one's own life construction after the trauma. The impact of military injuries and injuries related to the COVID-19 pandemic on changes in human life is investigated, the peculiarities of a... more
This study set out to incorporate the collective dimensions of posttraumatic growth and examined the construct and predictive validity of The Individual and Collective Posttraumatic Growth Scale (ICPTGS). Participants were 332 volunteers... more
The present study aimed to understand the resettlement experiences of Syrian refugees, who are resettled in Ankara, Turkey, with respect to their strengths and assets. Thisstudy conducted under the framework of a community-based... more
Arts-based approaches to scholarly inquiry are becoming increasingly common in qualitative research. The research presented here examines the psychospiritual impact of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), and a spectrum of soul loss was... more
Este artigo dá sequência ao que é requerido como trabalho de grupo para a unidade curricular designada por Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde: caraterização de uma psicopatologia escolhida pelo grupo (que foi a PPST); descrição das possíveis... more
The large number of military personnel returning from combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan with symptoms of mental illness has led to specializations into veteran mental health treatment and post-traumatic disorder. While the focus... more
A study of 161 temporary awakening experiences showed that over 23% were triggered by, or associated with, intense turmoil and distress (Taylor, 2012b). Examples of some of these turmoil-induced awakening experiences are given,... more
A new concept of the personal life-designing landscape as an area of life with certain functional-dynamic characteristics and specific semantic configuration is included in the thesaurus of psychological concepts. The attention is paid to... more
The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of positive and negative religious coping with posttraumatic symptoms (PTS) and growth (PTG). Their moderating role was also examined among predictors such as social support and the... more
The phenomenon of post-traumatic stress has been well documented in the literature as a lasting mental health condition associated with exposure to traumatic life events. The diagnosis and experience of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)... more
This article summarizes a study of 32 individuals who experienced psychological transformation following periods of intense turmoil and trauma in their lives. Several individuals reported temporary spiritual experiences following turmoil,... more
Dreams about 9/11 -- Paper presented at the 19th Annual International Conference for The International Association for the Study of Dreams, Tufts University, Medford, Boston, Massachusetts; 05/2002 An analysis of trauma dreams collected... more
In this article the impact of the Covid-19 virus will be used as a lens to read this Isaianic text. The collective threat of the corona-virus causes trauma on societies and communities on different levels: psychological, physical,... more