scholarly journals Relationships among Trait Resilience, Virtues, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, and Post-traumatic Growth

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. e0125707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjie Duan ◽  
Pengfei Guo ◽  
Pei Gan
2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 612-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Sherr ◽  
Navneet Nagra ◽  
Grace Kulubya ◽  
Jose Catalan ◽  
Claudine Clucas ◽  
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Author(s):  
O. Tokhtamysh

This topic is particularly relevant in the context of combat operations in eastern Ukraine against the occupation of the country, where members of the combined forces operation in each day are in a situation threatening the life and risk of getting a military psychological trauma. The article considers the elements and conditions of post-traumatic growth in the context of the rehabilitation process and the social promotion of human development after a traumatic event. The phenomenon of post-traumatic growth can transform the concept of rehabilitation into a term that can be labeled as "proabilitation". The forms of social and rehabilitation support in terms of creating conditions for post-traumatic growth and their effectiveness are explored. The theoretical and applied models with resource elements of the rehabilitation process and post-traumatic growth process are analyzed. It is noted that the traditional model of posttraumatic growth pay attention to the process of rumination and getting control over it and ignores one of the basic symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder, such as uncontrolled visual images (flash backs). The two-component concept of post-traumatic growth, which may be «illusory» or «adaptive», can also be presented as a «compensatory» or «healing» type with regard to the presence or absence of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms after reaching post-traumatic growth. Posttraumatic growth occurs in several domains and can be depending on the type of traumatic event experienced, the individual reactions and the psychological qualities of the person. This process is not such that it automatically eliminates the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, the same, rejecting the need for psychotherapeutic and psychosocial care and focusing only on post-traumatic growth can be a false strategy for those who have experienced a traumatic event. Consequently, the phenomenon of post-traumatic growth can be regarded as a powerful resource factor for the rehabilitation process, in particular, as a motivational component of psychosocial assistance.


2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 126-133
Author(s):  
Chang-Ui Hwang

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of unconditional self-acceptance and self-exposure of trainees on the post-traumatic growth and to develop a program to achieve post-traumatic growth beyond the previous level without suffering from psychopathological consequences such as post-traumatic stress disorder I wanted to help. For this purpose, unconditional self-acceptance, self-exposure, and Korean post-traumatic growth scale were used. First, it was confirmed that unconditional self-acceptance and self-exposure of firefighters are correlated with post-traumatic growth. Second, hierarchical regression analysis showed that unconditional self-acceptance has more influence on self-acceptance and post-traumatic growth than self-acceptance of firefighters. Based on the results of this study, we propose the program development and therapeutic intervention strategies to promote post-traumatic growth of firefighters.


Author(s):  
Lisa Andermann ◽  
Pushpa Kanagaratnam ◽  
Dawit Wondimagegn ◽  
Clare Pain

Refugees and migrants may encounter a variety of traumatic events, from the pre-migration to the post-migration phases of their journeys to safety, having fled conflict, war, human rights violations, and other life-threatening situations. These stressful and frightening events and their psychological sequelae can then adversely affect the refugees’ subsequent adjustment in their host countries and sometimes have longstanding mental health impacts. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is only one of the outcomes following a trauma; however, it is important to discuss this concept in refugee and migrants because most PTSD guidelines were derived for mainstream populations. There have been concerns about the medicalization of suffering, and the exportation of a Western model of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment to non-Western populations. This chapter will review the concept of PTSD as a psychiatric diagnosis often associated with migrants and refugees, with acknowledgement of its history, prevalence, applicability to non-Western populations, and limitations in both diagnosis and management. The concept of ‘distress versus disorder’ will be discussed, as well as tracing back to the origins of PTSD and looking at issues of validity, culture, and phenomenology. Principles of management will be reviewed. The chapter will conclude with a section on resilience and post-traumatic growth.


2020 ◽  
pp. 135910532091394
Author(s):  
Wanjie Tang ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
Li Lu ◽  
Yi Lu ◽  
Jiuping Xu

We evaluated the level of post-traumatic growth in a large sample of Chinese adolescent earthquake survivors ( n = 5195) and relationships among self-esteem, post-traumatic stress disorder, and post-traumatic growth. This cross-sectional study indicated that the prevalence of post-traumatic growth among adolescent survivors was 14.8 percent. Post-traumatic growth was independently associated with self-esteem, severity of exposures, and avoidance facets of post-traumatic stress disorder. Post-traumatic stress disorder was found to be partially mediated by self-esteem on post-traumatic growth; and post-traumatic stress disorder was also a mediator between earthquake exposure and post-traumatic growth. This study suggests that future longitudinal research and clinical practice should test whether promoting self-esteem can enhance post-traumatic stress disorder treatment.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Leiva-Bianchi ◽  
Carlos Mena ◽  
Yony Ormazábal ◽  
Carlos Serrano ◽  
Pedro Rojas

Recent findings indicate that both disruptive Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and healthy Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) responses have some spatial distribution depending on where they are measured and the different degrees of exposure that people may have to a critical event (e.g., earthquake). Less is known about how these responses change as a function of space and time after these events. The objective of this study was to enter deeper into this relationship analysing how PTSD and PTG responses vary in their spatial distribution 6 and 7 years after an earthquake (such as the one that occurred on 27 February, 2010 in Cauquenes City, Chile). Spatial analyses based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were performed to detect global and local geographic clustering. Investigating 171 (2016) and 106 (2017) randomly selected adults from Cauquenes, we demonstrated that 7 years after the event only 4 variables were spatially clustered, i.e. personal mental strength, interpersonal relations, new possibilities and appreciation of life), all of them PTG dimensions; This result contrasted with the situation the previous year (2016), when 7 variables were clustered (total PTG, spiritual change, new possibilities, appreciation of life, PTSD symptoms, PTSD reactions and PTSD in total). The spatial identifications found could facilitate the comparison of mental health conditions in populations and the impact of recovery programmes in communities exposed to disasters.


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