by Mary Ellen Doherty, Elizabeth Scannell-Desch
This
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 Journeys to Posttraumatic Growth
is an invaluable guide for health and social care practitioners, as
well as students and researchers with an interest in trauma, abuse,
bereavement and loss, and women’s healthcare.
