Full Description
Psychological Growth After Trauma is a guide to moving away from assumptions about trauma as a simple form of 'psychological damage.' Each chapter promotes an understanding of difficult experiences as learning opportunities that help us attune to the reality of existence and become more at ease with the truths that trigger our anxieties.
The book holds close to a phenomenological stance in which understanding emerges through experience and reflection. This is not a book that argues for a model that practitioners would be required to adopt and impose on their clients. Instead, Psychological Growth After Trauma brings insights and explorations together, allowing the reader to build their own framework for understanding.
Contents
1. Introduction: The Possibility of Posttraumatic Growth Part 1: New Awareness in the Experience of Women 2. Birth Trauma and Existential Crisis: How Becoming a Mother Involves a Confrontation with Existence 3. Experiences of Women Living Beyond Rape and Interpersonal Violence Part 2: Developing a Self Through Early Life Trauma 4. Emerging from Adolescent Sexual Grooming: The Need for Truth 5. The Coexistence of Posttraumatic Stress and Posttraumatic Growth Related to Childhood Trauma Part 3: Encountering Death 6. Living with Traumatic Bereavement 7. Surviving Near Death Following Cardiac Arrest Part 4: In the Aftermath of Colonialism, Political Conflict, and War 8. Lived Experiences of Antiblack Racism: Is the Impact Always a Permanent Psychological Scar, or Can There Be Growth? 9. Political Refugees: Rising Above Trauma 10. The Impact of Active Military Service on Intimate Relationships: Trauma, Breakdown, and Breakthrough 11. Trauma: The Search for a Poisoned Chalice? Part 5: Trauma as it Emerges in the Therapeutic Encounter 12. Applying a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Lens: A Literary Review Observes the Impact of Client Suicide on the Therapist 13. Carrying the Torch of Hope: An Investigation into the Experiences of Shared Interpersonal Trauma in the Therapeutic Relationship 14. Vicarious Trauma and Growth in Mental Health Workers Part 6: Making Sense of Our Work with Trauma 15. Trauma and Existence: Existential-Humanistic Understandings of Trauma, with Existential-Analytic and Phenomenological Implications for Practice
