Description
Book SynopsisThis accessible book draws on research around women's experiences to illustrate and explore the concept of posttraumatic growth, emphasizing practice implications for healthcare professionals and strategies for fostering posttraumatic growth.
Including the voices of women, in their own words, Women's Journeys to Posttraumatic Growth explains the differences between post-traumatic stress disorder and posttraumatic growth and presents the theoretical framework of posttraumatic growth. It synthesizes relevant international research and introduces data from four new qualitative research studies on posttraumatic growth in women who have experienced the death of a spouse or longtime partner, death of a child, a close brush with death, and intimate partner abuse. The book develops clinical and nursing practice implications for healthcare professionals and explores current self-help and professional therapeutic strategies to foster posttraumatic growth.
Women's J
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'An empathetic exploration of women's traumas and how those experiencing them travel to Posttraumatic Growth. The authors explore the tumultuous emotions stirred up by the death of a loved one, domestic abuse, serious accidents, illnesses, and the broad fluctuations between hope and despair. Insightful, practical, compassionate, and a must-read!'
Sharon R. Rainer, Ph.D., APRN, FNP-BC, ANP-BC, ENP-C, Program Director, Emergency Nurse Practitioner Post-Graduate Program, Thomas Jefferson University College of Nursing, USA
'Women’s Journeys to Posttraumatic Growth is compassionately infused with true stories of life traumas encountered by ordinary women. Drs. Doherty and Scannell-Desch draw on their research and clinical experience to provide the reader with a riveting account of women’s struggles, setbacks, and gradual navigation to Posttraumatic Growth.'
Iris J. Turkenkopf, Ph.D., Professor & Vice President for Academic Affairs (retired), Mount Saint Mary College, USA
Table of Contents1. Before Posttraumatic Growth Came Posttraumatic Stress, 2. A Conceptual Framework and Model for Posttraumatic Growth, 3. Posttraumatic Growth and the Loss of a Husband or Longtime Partner, 4. Posttraumatic Growth in Women Who Have Experienced the Loss of a Child, 5. Women’s Experiences of a Close Brush with Death and Posttraumatic Growth, 6. Posttraumatic Growth in Women Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Abuse, 7. Therapeutic Modalities, Self-Help Resources, and Implications for Clinical Practice, Education, and Research, 8. Authors’ Concluding Thoughts
