Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Practice

<p>From the authors who pioneered the concept of posttraumatic growth comes <i>Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Practice</i> a book that brings the study of growth after trauma into the twenty-first century. Clinicians will find a framework that’s easy to use and flexible enough to be tailored to the needs of particular clients and specific therapeutic approaches. And because it utilizes a model of relating described as expert companionship clinicians learn how to become most empathically effective in helping a variety of trauma survivors. Clinicians will come away from this book having learned how to assess posttraumatic growth how to address it in treatment and they’ll also have a basic grasp of the ways the changes they’re promoting will be received in various cultural contexts. Case examples show how utilizing a process developed from an empirically-based model of posttraumatic growth can promote important personal changes in the aftermath of traumatic events.</p>