(from the chapter) Important to the field of understanding the impact of stressful life experiences on health is the emerging literature that has focused on growth through trauma. A relatively new concept in the trauma field is "trauma growth." The focus of this chapter is on the processing of trauma after a stressful life event and what has come to be known as "trauma growth." The authors provide a chapter that aids in understanding the conceptualization and processing of trauma growth. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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Lindstrom, C. M., & Triplett, K. N. (2010). Posttraumatic Growth: A Positive Consequence of Trauma. In Handbook of Stressful Transitions Across the Lifespan (pp. 569–583). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0748-6_28
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