scholarly journals Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Post-Traumatic Growth in Dialectical Perspective: Implications for Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavlo Lushyn ◽  
Yana Sukhenko
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Dialectical Perspective ◽  
Post Traumatic

This article provides the conceptualization of the post-traumatic development (PTD) in terms of a dialectical unity of the processes of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and post-traumatic growth (PTG); practical implications for eco-centered facilitation of post-traumatic growth and development. The results of the research indicate that the process of personality development is paradoxical, irreversible and scarcely predictable. In dialectical perspective the attractor of change is not about the content of transient forms (such as trauma, success, flow) but the stabilization of their change: thesis – antithesis – synthesis. As compared to PTG, PTD’s outcome is the systemic transition to the novel (not better or positive) identity. PTSD as well as PTG constitute minor cycles within the major cycle of PTD. The core metaphor of change as personality development is the work of the immunity system (SPI) which has an ambivalent nature: on the one hand, it defends the personality from the influence of adversarial agents and on the other – proactively guards it from stagnation and lack of confrontation and discontinuity. Principals of PTD facilitation: (a) the situation of psychological help (PH) is a case of a transition to a social level of personality self-regulation; (b) an inquiry for PH contains a narrative with necessary and sufficient elements for post-traumatic growth and development; (c) these elements are objectified in paradoxes, contradictions, incongruences as the source of personality development; (d) the task of PTD facilitator is to support the explication of internal change programs by maintaining the position of ambiguity tolerance and sensitivity to accidental flow of events. 

HIV infection associated post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic growth – A systematic review

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 612-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Sherr ◽  
Navneet Nagra ◽  
Grace Kulubya ◽  
Jose Catalan ◽  
Claudine Clucas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Post Traumatic

POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH IN A PROCESS OF REHABILITATAION

2018 ◽  
pp. 57-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Tokhtamysh
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Rehabilitation Process ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Post Traumatic

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.

scholarly journals The Influence of Unconditional Self-Acceptance and Self-Exposure on Post-traumatic Growth of Firefighters

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 126-133
Author(s):  
Chang-Ui Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Previous Level ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Self Acceptance

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.

Post-traumatic stress disorder in refugee and migrant mental health

2021 ◽  
pp. 513-522
Author(s):  
Lisa Andermann ◽  
Pushpa Kanagaratnam ◽  
Dawit Wondimagegn ◽  
Clare Pain
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Western Model ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Post Traumatic

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.

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