Overview
- Covers new evidence on psychosocial and physical consequences of disaster among other negative life events
- Considers consequences for individuals, families and communities
- Focuses on long-term recovery and healing
- Provides implications for future research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This evidence-rich collection takes on the broad diversity of traumatic stress, in both its causes and outcomes, as well as the wide variety of resources available for recovery. Its accessible coverage shows varied presentations of post-traumatic stress affected by individual, family, and group contexts, including age, previous trauma exposure, and presence or lack of social resources, as well as long-term psychological, physical, and social consequences. Contributors focus on a range of traumatic experiences, from environmental disasters (wildfires, Hurricane Katrina) to the Holocaust, from ambiguous loss to war captivity. And the book's final section, "Healing after Trauma," spotlights resilience, forgiveness, religion, and spirituality, using concepts from positive psychology.
Included among the topics:
- The Great East Japan earthquake: tsunami and nuclear disaster.
- Posttraumatic stress in the aftermath of mass shootings.
- Psychosocial consequences: appraisal, adaptation, and bereavement after trauma.
- Loss, chaos, survival and despair: the storm after the storms.
- Aging with trauma across the lifetime and experiencing trauma in old age.
- On bereavement and grief: a therapeutic approach to healing. Â
Psychologists, social workers, researchers studying trauma and resilience, and mental health professionals across disciplines will welcome Traumatic Stress and Long-Term Recovery as a profound source of insight into stress and loss, coping and healing.
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Keywords
- Acute Stress Responses
- Community Resilience
- Coping after Natural Disasters
- Cumulative Adversity
- Effects of War Captivity
- Healing after Traumatic Events
- Long-term Effects of Disasters
- Long-term Recovery after a Traumatic Event
- PTSD Research
- PTSD after Mass Shootings
- Post-traumatic Growth
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Resilience Research
Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Traumatic Experiences: On Events that Change Lives
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Consequences of Trauma Exposure
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Healing after Trauma: Resilience and Long-Term Recovery
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Traumatic Stress and Long-Term Recovery
Book Subtitle: Coping with Disasters and Other Negative Life Events
Editors: Katie E. Cherry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18866-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18865-2Published: 02 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35019-6Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18866-9Published: 21 August 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 443
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Community and Environmental Psychology, Social Work, Public Health