This book provides a concise, yet comprehensive guide to effective work with bereaved parents, combining a broad overview of current research, theory, and practice with the authors' own extensive clinical experience. Transcripts of individual, couple, and group meetings illustrate the delicate subtleties of this work, giving the reader helpful insights into more effective clinical practice. The authors emphasize the importance of approaching each parent as a unique person, while also considering the socio-cultural context of the bereaved. This book helps clinicians approach work with bereaved...
This book provides a concise, yet comprehensive guide to effective work with bereaved parents, combining a broad overview of current research, theory,...
That personal growth often occurs in people who have experienced traumatic events is an acknowledged but under-researched phenomenon. This book fills the gap: the authors use a cognitive framework to explore this finding, focusing upon changes in belief systems reported by trauma survivors.
Tedeschi and Calhoun weave together literature from fields as diverse as philosophy, religion and psychology, and incorporate major research findings into the effect of trauma. With case examples from the authors' research and clinical work, information is presented in a manner accessible to clinicians....
That personal growth often occurs in people who have experienced traumatic events is an acknowledged but under-researched phenomenon. This book fills ...
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. (Nietzsche) The phenomenon of positive personal change following devastating events has been recognized since ancient times, but given little attention by contemporary psychologists and psychiatrists, who have tended to focus on the negative consequences of stress. In recent years, evidence from diverse fields has converged to suggest the reality and pervasive importance of the processes the editors sum up as posttraumatic growth. This volume offers the first comprehensive overview of these processes. The authors address a variety of...
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. (Nietzsche) The phenomenon of positive personal change following devastating events has been recog...
In this book, Calhoun and Tedeschi construct the first systematic framework for clinical efforts to enhance the processes they sum up as posttraumatic growth. Posttraumatic growth is the phenomenon of positive change through struggle with even the most horrible sets of circumstances. People who experience it tend to describe three general types of change: realistically stronger feelings of vulnerability that are nonetheless accompanied by stronger feelings of personal resilience, closer and deeper relationships with others, and a stronger sense of spirituality. Posttraumatic growth...
In this book, Calhoun and Tedeschi construct the first systematic framework for clinical efforts to enhance the processes they sum up as posttraumatic...
Posttraumatic growth is an area in which investigations are now being undertaken in many different parts of the world. The view that individuals can be changed - sometimes in radically good ways - by their struggle with trauma is ancient and widespread. However, the systematic focus by scholars and clinicians on the possibilities for growth from the struggle with crisis is relatively recent. There are now a growing number of studies and scholarly papers on the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of posttraumatic growth, and there are also theoretical models that can help guide the...
Posttraumatic growth is an area in which investigations are now being undertaken in many different parts of the world. The view that individuals can b...
Lawrence G. Calhoun Richard G. Tedeschi Stephanie Rupe
Posttraumatic growth is an area in which investigations are now being undertaken in many different parts of the world. The view that individuals can be changed--sometimes in radically good ways--by their struggle with trauma is ancient and widespread. However, the systematic focus by scholars and clinicians on the possibilities for growth from the struggle with crisis is relatively recent. There are now a growing number of studies and scholarly papers on the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of posttraumatic growth, and there are also theoretical models that can help guide the...
Posttraumatic growth is an area in which investigations are now being undertaken in many different parts of the world. The view that individuals can b...
Providing the clinician with an understanding of the experience of grieving parents, this text is a concise clinical on how best to assist the bereaved parent. The authors combine their extensive experience and expertise with persons who have undergone loss, with their empirical research on this topic.
Providing the clinician with an understanding of the experience of grieving parents, this text is a concise clinical on how best to assist the bereave...
From the authors who pioneered the concept of posttraumatic growth comes "Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Practice," a book that brings the study of growth after trauma into the twenty-first century. Clinicians will find a framework that s easy to use and flexible enough to be tailored to the needs of particular clients and specific therapeutic approaches. And, because it utilizes a model of relating described as "expert companionship," clinicians learn how to become most empathically effective in helping a variety of trauma survivors. Clinicians will come away from this book having...
From the authors who pioneered the concept of posttraumatic growth comes "Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Practice," a book that brings the study ...
People who experience trauma often struggle with its effects, but many men and women have found meaning in their traumatic event and now experience life differently. Written by two psychologists and experts on trauma psychology including one of the key researchers on posttraumatic growth (PTG) this unique, evidence-based, step-by-step workbook offers a new model for processing traumatic experiences in order to gain wisdom, strength, and resilience.
There is no denying the psychological and physical costs of trauma, but suffering a traumatic experience does not necessarily mean...
People who experience trauma often struggle with its effects, but many men and women have found meaning in their traumatic event and now experie...
