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Posttraumatic Growth in Combat Veterans

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Combat veterans and their families face significant challenges not only to their abilities to cope, but often to their fundamental belief systems. Traumatic events represent assaults on core beliefs, yet at times, produce cognitive processing that can ultimately result in personal transformations called posttraumatic growth (PTG). Clinicians can utilize a systematic therapeutic approach to facilitate PTG as they carry out a relationship of expert companionship. PTG in service members is described in this article, as well as the approach to facilitation of PTG.

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Tedeschi, R.G. Posttraumatic Growth in Combat Veterans. J Clin Psychol Med Settings 18, 137–144 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10880-011-9255-2

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