Posttraumatic growth

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A traumatic situation may arise from trauma affected person to post traumatic stress disorder or post-traumatic growth.

The traumatic event has destroyed existential assumptions. The living situation has changed fundamentally. Although this situation can not be changed, however, his own point of view. Rather than break this situation, people manage to grow it.

Terminology

The term " post-traumatic growth " (English posttraumatic growth) by Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun. While clinical psychology traditionally associated with the study of mental disorders employed ( Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Posttraumatic embitterment disorder ), since the 1990s a growing interest in trauma research in positive consequences of trauma, to the 1963 Viktor Frankl has pointed out.

Other common terms in the literature are "Finding Benefits" ( Affleck and Tennen 1996), "Stress -Related Growth" ( Park et al., 1996), " Thriving " ( O'Leary et al., 1995), " Positive Psychological Changes" ( Yalom and Lieberman 1991), " Transformational Coping " ( Aldwin, 1994).

Areas of the traumatic growth

The psychologist Richard G. Tedeschi, who is a professor at UNC Charlotte has worked out together with his team five areas of posttraumatic growth:

In summary it can be said that a loss of a gain produced. The trauma concerned of the scale in life paradoxes (eg, vulnerability and strength ). These lead to dialectical thinking and thus a gain in maturity and wisdom.

Phases of traumatic growth

Tedeschi and Calhoun divided into three phases of traumatic growth:

Differentiation from related concepts

• Resilience (English Resilience )
• Hardiness
• Optimism
• Sense of coherence
• Coping
• Positive Psychology