Post Traumatic Growth Mindset

Author : Miriam Akhtar
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786780062
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book What is Post-Traumatic Growth? written by Miriam Akhtar and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trauma occurs when extremely stressful events shatter your emotional and psychological well-being, overwhelming your ability to cope. Research by the charity PTSD UK has found that 1 in 2 people will experience trauma at some point in their life, and 20% of those will develop post-traumatic stress. This fascinating and accessible book explains the many varied forms trauma can take, shows how to recognize signs of post-traumatic stress, and offers resilience-building strategies to go beyond 'coping' with it in order to grow from it instead – proving that what doesn't kill you can indeed make you stronger. After an insightful introduction about why the subject of post-traumatic growth is so worth exploring, each main chapter addresses key questions such as: What is trauma and what is post-traumatic stress? What is meant by the concept of post-traumatic growth and what makes it possible? How do you cope in the midst of trauma? How can you strengthen your resilience to keep going? And, finally, how can you actively facilitate post-traumatic growth and how can it change things for the better? As such, this book brings readers on an exploratory journey through the world of post-traumatic growth, reframing how readers view trauma and showing them how they can emerge from its shadow with a new appreciation for life, greater well-being and a higher level of functioning.

Author : Richard G. Tedeschi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131552743X
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Posttraumatic Growth written by Richard G. Tedeschi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gloria Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781777366094
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Post Traumatic Growth Mindset written by Gloria Palmer and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Traumatic Growth Mindset: The Complete Guidebook of Techniques of PTSD Healing and Recovery is an instructive manual that shows you the momentous heights you can reach when you overcome your trauma and how to get to those heights. The book provides straightforward information that anyone can apply to create post-traumatic growth. Trauma is a common human experience, and this trauma can result in severe side effects caused by conditions like PTSD. PTSD can have debilitating physical and emotional symptoms, but one of the worst effects is that it can make you feel detached from your life. Think about all the ways your trauma influences your life. Does it make it hard to communicate with loved ones? Does it cause you to isolate or engage in risky behavior? Does it make you feel sad, angry, or hopeless? Trauma has a wide range of effects, and it doesn't influence anyone in the same way. Therefore, it is a highly personal experience despite the fact that people often have similar symptoms. Thus, this book does not depict trauma just by the symptoms and how to handle those symptoms; it takes a holistic approach that allows people to customize their treatment to their individual circumstances. The book acknowledges that not everyone is the same, and it doesn't claim there is a one size fits all solution. Using clear language and compelling statistics, Post-Traumatic Growth Mindset: The Complete Guidebook of Techniques of PTSD Healing and Recovery teaches you how to process your trauma and learn to be better than you ever were. It encourages post-traumatic growth, which allows you to not just be resilient, but it allows you to grow as a person. You're going to push your boundaries and challenge yourself to be a better, stronger person. This book will do the following: ✅ Teach you what you can gain from post-traumatic growth ✅ Depict what trauma is and the various levels and symptoms associated with trauma ✅ Explain what PTSD is and what C-PTSD is ✅ Describe the symptoms of PTSD and some of the causes ✅ Detail the brain-body connection and how the neurobiology of trauma impacts you ✅ Give you tools that you can use to cope with PTSD ✅ Show you the power of post-traumatic growth and how to apply it to your circumstances ✅ Help you understand the various therapeutic and lifestyle changes you can make to address your trauma ✅ List physical ways to help you heal ✅ Guide you to create realistic self-improvement expectations and manage your prolonged happiness Don't let your trauma take over your life. Whatever you experienced, you've gone long enough with the pain and exhaustion that trauma brings. It's time to build your toolbox and learn about how trauma settles into your brain and how you can use scientifically supported evidence to combat your traumatic responses. It's time to heal, and you'll be able to begin the healing process before you've even finished this book.

Author : Richard G Tedeschi
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1626254702
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Posttraumatic Growth Workbook written by Richard G Tedeschi and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 you’ll develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and have to live with its debilitating long-term symptoms. While the process of recovering from trauma is difficult and painful, survivors also experience posttraumatic growth (PTG). And with the right approach to healing, the same challenges that create PTSD can also set the stage for a psychological rebirth. The Posttraumatic Growth Workbook expands the focus on posttraumatic stress and its related difficulties to include the significant potential for positive growth in the aftermath of trauma. With this guide, you’ll learn more about traumatic experiences and their short- and long-term effects, discover where you are in your own process, explore vulnerability as an important aspect of post-traumatic strength, identify and develop other strengths for coping with—and growing beyond—your trauma, and successfully integrate your experience into your personal story. Navigating the aftereffects of trauma is a difficult journey, but many people report having a new appreciation for life and feeling even more resilient after working through their traumatic event. Using this powerful, PTG-based workbook, you’ll find it’s possible to come out of your trauma even stronger and wiser.

Author : Jim Rendon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476761655
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Upside written by Jim Rendon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through cutting-edge research and thoughtful personal stories comes a “compassionate, friendly, and empathetic” (Kirkus Reviews) exploration of post-traumatic growth—the emerging idea that psychological trauma doesn’t destroy a person, but can instead spark future growth, self-improvement, and success. What if there’s an upside to experiencing trauma? Most survivors of trauma—whether they live through life-threatening illnesses or accidents, horror on the battlefield, or the loss of a loved one—can suffer for months, even years. But recently, psychologists have discovered that PTSD, or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, is only a piece of the whole experience. With the right circumstances and proper support, many trauma survivors also benefit after a terrible experience. They emerge stronger, more focused, and with a new perspective on their future. In the tradition of Po Bronson and Paul Tough, journalist Jim Rendon delivers a deeply reported and unique look at the life-changing implications of post-traumatic growth. The pain and anguish caused by traumatic events can become a force for dramatic life change. It can move people to find deeper meaning in their lives and drive them to help others. But how can terrible experiences lead to remarkable, positive breakthroughs? Upside seeks to answer just that by taking a penetrating look at this burgeoning new field of study. Comprised of interviews with leading researchers and dozens of inspiring stories, Rendon paints a vivid and comprehensive portrait of this groundbreaking field and offers a roadmap for anyone trying to understand how personal tragedy can lead to a more hopeful and positive future.

Author : Stephen Joseph
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 046502792X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book What Doesn't Kill Us written by Stephen Joseph and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving a traumatic experience is difficult and takes time to move on from, but this book makes the argument that with proper care and understanding, survivors can grow and reshape their lives in a positive way. For the past twenty years, pioneering psychologist Stephen Joseph has worked with survivors of trauma. His studies have yielded a startling discovery: that a wide range of traumatic events-from illness, divorce, separation, assault, and bereavement to accidents, natural disasters, and terrorism-can act as catalysts for positive change. Boldly challenging the conventional wisdom about trauma and its aftermath, Joseph demonstrates that rather than ruining one's life, a traumatic event can actually improve it. Drawing on the wisdom of ancient philosophers, the insights of evolutionary biologists, and the optimism of positive psychologists, What Doesn't Kill Us reveals how all of us can navigate change and adversity- traumatic or otherwise-to find new meaning, purpose, and direction in life.

Author : Brenda Ungerland
Publisher : Chapel Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1597152102
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Post-Traumatic Growth: Thriving in the Face of Adversity written by Brenda Ungerland and published by Chapel Hill Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of us will experience severe adversity at some point in our life. But while change is unstoppable, transformation is optional. Why will some of us keep evolving and others remain stuck? Even the worst crisis can serve as a catalyst for profound growth. Post-Traumatic Growth gives us a practical blueprint for optimal living, providing a clear roadmap from crisis to flourishing through 7 stages. It offers an expansive new perspective, tracking the inner life of everyday individuals who experienced significant breakthroughs and personally evolved in response to crisis, loss, and trauma. This life-changing book is packed with key insights, juicy examples, practical guidelines, penetrating questions and compelling exercises, structured sequentially to carry you forward through the process on your own schedule. It’s about thriving the face of adversity, coming up against the worst of it and transforming life’s most excruciating realities into experiences of emergence and growth. Post-Traumatic Growth provides invaluable tools for working through unresolved emotional issues, releasing pain, overcoming impediments, optimizing your innate strengths, and fulfilling your true potential. It’s about real people navigating through key turning points, focusing on our innately human capacity for developmental growth in the face of adversity. Evidence-based, solutions-oriented strategies with insights, questions and exercises from an experienced health psychologist and seminar leader. Sooner or later, everyone needs this book, for yourself or someone you love.

Author : Frank J. Infurna
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197507409
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Redesigning Research on Post-Traumatic Growth written by Frank J. Infurna and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the novel Bel Canto, the Vice-President of a small Latin American country and about 50 others are being held hostage by terrorists. They have been held in the Vice-President's mansion for months and they fear they will not survive. Vice President Ruben Iglesias, who thought he would not live to feel once again the sensation of grass beneath his feet, stepped off the shale stone walkway and sank into the luxury of his own yard. He had stared at it every day from the living-room window but now that he was actually there it seemed like a new world. Had he ever walked around his own lawn in the evening? Had he made a mental note of the trees, the miraculous flowering bushes that grew up around the wall? What were they called? He dropped his face into the nest of deep purple blossoms and inhaled. Dear God, if he were to get out of this alive he would be attentive to his plants. (Patchett 2001: 281)"--

Author : Richard G. Tedeschi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135689806
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Posttraumatic Growth written by Richard G. Tedeschi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 traumas--among them bereavement, physical disability, terminal illness, combat, rape, and natural disasters--following which experiences of growth have been reported. How can sufferers from posttraumatic stress disorder best be helped? What does "resilience" in the face of high risk mean? Which personality characteristics facilitate growth? To what extent is personality change possible in adulthood? How can concepts like happiness and self-actualization be operationalized? What role do changing belief systems, schemas, or "assumptive worlds" play in positive adaptation? Is "stress innoculation" possible? How do spiritual beliefs become central for many people struck by trauma, and how are posttraumatic growth and recovery from substance abuse or the crises of serious physical illnesses linked? Such questions have concerned not only the recently defined and expanding group of "traumatologists," but also therapists of all sorts, personality and social psychologists, developmental and cognitive researchers, specialists in health psychology and behavioral medicine, and those who study religion and mental health. Overcoming the challenges of life's worst experiences can catalyze new opportunities for individual and social development. Learning about persons who discover or create the perception of positive change in their lives may shed light on the problems of those who continue to suffer. Posttraumatic Growth will stimulate dialogue among personality and social psychologists and clinicians, and influence the theoretical foundations and clinical agendas of investigators and practitioners alike.

Author : Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1642937282
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Anatomy of a Survivor written by Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990, after a sudden cardiac event, Joyce Mikal-Flynn was dead for twenty-two minutes. While CPR and determined doctors returned her to life, she came to find that this new life wasn’t her life at all. Faced with depression, personal and professional setbacks, she ultimately recognized that this was not an end point—but a beginning. Over time, she understood that taking control begins with the essential choice to move forward. Her struggles fueled her. You got this, she told herself with every obstacle, failure, and misstep. Trauma and crisis are inescapable aspects of life. Framed, at times, as something to get over, trauma never fully leaves those who experience it. For over two decades, Dr. Mikal-Flynn has worked with and studied issues faced by survivors. She understands and recognizes their desire to move forward, identifying specific mindsets and behaviors that encourage progress. Making the choice to move forward, fierce determination, and well-researched actions are key for survival and growth. Interlacing stories with research on genetics, posttraumatic growth, and the neuroscience of resilience and happiness, this book outlines how survivors of trauma structure a positive and productive response. An ingenious strengths-based rehabilitation system—metahabilitation—engages them by uncovering and developing their resilience, grit, and capacity for growth after trauma. This book shows you how survivors are built and presents a unique system guiding them forward.