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Eranda Jayawickreme, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University, discusses considerations and challenges for measuring posttraumatic growth, including approaches, methodological considerations and limitations, and doing more credible research.

Posttraumatic growth. --- Counseling. --- Health. --- Psychotherapy.

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Posttraumatic Growth reworks and overhauls the seminal 2006 Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth. It provides a wide range of answers to questions concerning knowledge of posttraumatic growth (PTG) theory, its synthesis and contrast with other theories and models, and its applications in diverse settings. The book starts with an overview of the history, components, and outcomes of PTG. Next, chapters review quantitative, qualitative, and cross-cultural research on PTG, including in relation to cognitive function, identity formation, cross-national and gender differences, and similarities and differences between adults and children. The final section shows readers how to facilitate optimal outcomes with PTG at the level of the individual, the group, the community, and society.

Suffering --- Posttraumatic growth --- Life change events --- Posttraumatic Growth, Psychological --- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic --- Psychological Trauma --- Resilience, Psychological --- Models, Psychological --- Psychological Theory --- Psychological aspects --- psychology

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Promoting Positive Processes after Trauma merges research and clinical applications pertaining to the common experiences of trauma among clients with many different presentations and diagnoses. The book examines positive processes as they operate within trauma and considers the intentional development by the clinician of these positive processes with individual clients. The book is structured after the cornerstone tenets of positive psychology resilience, hope, forgiveness, post-traumatic growth and benefit-finding, meaning making and spirituality. Covers positive psychology processes, such as growing out of developmental trajectories; cognitive, emotional and intra-personal processes; interpersonal processes; and community- and contextually-defined processes.

Post-traumatic stress disorder --- Posttraumatic Growth, Psychological. --- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic --- Treatment. --- therapy.

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Coping has a myriad of facets: knowledge concerning the circumstances of threats to emotional and physical well being, the ability to meet immediate needs to mitigate, the potential for recurrence, the ability to apply efforts and resources to manage recurrence, and the complex assessment of competing motivations and changing circumstances. Successful coping is measured in the efficiency of efforts in balance with the degree of threat and likelihood of future occurrence. As one means of coping, avoidance encompass thoughts and efforts toward prevention of future aversive experiences and events. Anxiety disorders exemplify an extreme bias toward avoidance. A diathesis learning model focuses research efforts on individual vulnerabilities to acquire and express avoidance, the neurobiology of avoidance learning and its attendant circuitry. A fundamental understanding of avoidance through a diathesis learning model offers will facilitate the development of effective treatment protocols in alleviating anxiety disorders.

RDoC --- stress --- Amygdala --- Diathesis --- Anxiety --- expectancy --- cingulate --- coping --- Hippocampus --- posttraumatic stress disorder

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This book provides a state-of-the-art guide to the rapidly growing field of traumatic stress. It reviews and integrates the many scientific findings from psychology, psychiatry and sociology into an encompassing model. This general model is applicable to the reactions to war stress, disaster, violence, accidents and bereavement. Topics such as normal and disturbed coping patterns, social support and various risk factors are also discussed. In addition to the theoretical model, a number of treatment methods for posttraumatic stress disorders is described. Theoretical and practical issues of these treatments are presented. The efficiency of the methods is elucidated by the description of a psychotherapy outcome study on these methods. Information of prevention programs for victims of serious life events is also provided. This integrative approach is of interest to researchers, clinicians, public health workers, physicians, personnel workers, and all other professionals who are involved in research and/or health care with regard to traumatic events.

Post-traumatic stress disorder --- Prevention --- -Posttraumatic stress disorder --- PTSD (Psychiatry) --- Stress disorder, Post-traumatic --- Traumatic stress syndrome --- Anxiety disorders --- Stress (Psychology) --- Traumatic neuroses --- Intrusive thoughts --- -Prevention --- Posttraumatic stress disorder --- Post-traumatic stress disorder - Prevention