Stress Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth

<p>What happens in the trauma’s aftermath? How do its effects manifest differently on the individual family and community-wide levels? <i>Stress Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth: Social Context Environment and Identities</i> explores the way traumatic events are defined classified and understood throughout the life cycle placing special emphasis on the complex intersections of diverse affiliations and characteristics such as age class culture disability race and ethnicity gender identity and expression immigration status political ideology religion sex and sexual orientation. The book gives its readers a solid basis for understanding traumatic events and treating their effects and also shows the varied ways that trauma is conceptualized across cultures. Both new and seasoned clinicians will come away from <i>Stress Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth</i> with a deep understanding of the principles that guide successful trauma treatment.</p>