Trauma, Recovery, and Growth
Positive Psychological Perspectives on Posttraumatic Stress
Published on 18. February 2008
384 pages
978-0-470-18789-0 (ISBN)
Description
The latest theory and research on understanding posttraumaticstressand its treatment, providing evidence-based clinicalinterventionsusing techniques drawn from positive psychology
It is known that exposure to stressful and traumatic events canhave severe and chronic psychological consequences. At the sametime-mindful of the suffering often caused by trauma-there is alsoa growing body of evidence testifying to posttraumatic growth: thepositive psychological changes that can result for survivors oftrauma.
Blending these two areas of research and exploring the relevance ofpositive psychology to trauma practice, Trauma, Recovery, andGrowth: Positive Psychological Perspectives on PosttraumaticStress provides clinicians with the resources they need toimplement positive psychology interventions in their traumatreatment across a spectrum of?therapeutic perspectives, includingcognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, existential, andgroup therapies.
Featuring contributions by internationally renowned researchers andpractitioners and edited by experts in the field of positivepsychology who have worked with survivors of trauma in thefacilitation of their resilience, recovery, and growth, this timelybook is divided into four parts:
* Toward an Integrative Positive Psychology of PosttraumaticExperience
* Growth and Distress in Social, Community, and InterpersonalContexts
* Clinical Approaches and Therapeutic Experiences of ManagingDistress and Facilitating Growth
* Beyond the Stress-Growth Distinction: Issues at the CuttingEdge of Theory and Practice
Trauma, Recovery, and Growth explores the role positivepsychology can play in how clinical practitioners treat and workwith survivors of stressful and traumatic events and offers anoptimistic perspective in the treatment of those who sufferposttraumatic stress following devastating events such as terroristattacks, childhood sexual abuse, cancer, and war.
Reviews / Votes
"The first section of this book provides a concise overview of thehistory of treating posttraumatic stress, which has in the pastfocused on an illness ideology that emphasizes deficits andabnormal functioning as opposed to health adaptation."(Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Winter 2009) "In sum, TRG is an important contribution to the growingliterature on positive psychology. It should be on the reading listof any clinician who is dealing with trauma survivors. It presentsa welcome contrast to the immense volume of material onpsychopathology following trauma." (PsycCRITIQUES;1/28/09)More details
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Stephen Joseph, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, Health andSocial Care at The University of Nottingham, where he is codirectorof the Centre for Trauma, Resilience and Growth and an HonoraryConsultant Psychologist in Psychotherapy at NottinghamshireHealthcare NHS Trust.
P. Alex Linley, PhD, is Director of the Centre for AppliedPositive Psychology, Coventry, United Kingdom (see www.cappeu.org).His work is dedicated to the applications of positive psychology,and includes roles as an Associate Editor of The Journal ofPositive Psychology and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of PositivePsychology.
Content
Preface.
Contributors.
Part I: Toward An Integrative Positive Psychology ofPosttraumatic Experience.
1. Positive Psychological Perspectives on Posttraumatic Stress:An Integrative Psychosocial Framework (Stephen Joseph and P. AlexLinley)
2. Psychological Assessment of Growth Following Adversity: AReview (Stephen Joseph and P. Alex Linley)
Part II: Growth and Distress in Social Community, andInterpersonal Contexts.
3. Resilience and Thriving in a Time of Terrorism (Leslie A.Morland, Lisa D. Butler, and Gregory A. Leskin)
4. Positive Effects of Terrorism and Posttraumatic Growth: AnIndividual and Community Perspective (Carmelo Vazquez, PauPerez-Sales, and Gonzalo Hervas)
5. Posttraumatic Growth and Immigration: theory, research andPractice Implications (Tzipi Weiss and Roni Berger)
6. Broken Vows: Divorce as a Spiritual Trauma and ItsImplications for Growth and Decline (Annette Mahoney< ElizabethJ. Krumrei, and Kenneth I. Pargament)
7. Growth Through Loss and Adversity in close Relationships(John H. Harvey)
8. Beyond Survival: Growing out of Childhood Sexual Abuse(Rachel Lev-Wiesel)
9. Posttraumatic Growth Following Sexual Assault (Patricia A.Frazier and Margit I. Berman)
Part III: Clinical Approaches and Therapeutic Experiences ofManaging Distress and Facilitating Growth.
10. Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth Following Cancer (MatthewJ. Cordova)
11. Group-Based Therapies for Benefit Finding in Cancer (SuzanneC. Lechner, Brenda L. Stoelb, and Michael H. Antoni)
12. Using a Life Span Model to Promote Recovery and Growth inTraumatized Veterans (Judith A. Lyons)
13. Recovery from Brain Injury and Positive RehabilitationPractice (Joanna Collicutt McGrath)
14. Professional Quality of Life and Trauma Therapists(DebraLarsen and Beth Hudnall Stamm)
Part IV: Beyond the Stress-Growth Distinction: Issues at theCutting Edge of Theory and Practice.
15. A Contrarian View of Growth Following Adversity (Julian D.Ford, Howard Tennen, and David Albert)
16. The Paradox of Struggling with Trauma: Guidelines forPractice and Directions for Research (Lawrence G. Calhoun andRichard G. Tedeschi)
17. Reflections on Theory and Practice in Trauma, Recovery, andGrowth: A Paradigm Shift for the Field of Traumatic Stress (StephenJoseph and P. Alex Linley)
Author Index.
Subject Index.
