
Posttraumatic Growth and Culturally Competent Practice
Lessons Learned from Around the Globe
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Posttraumatic Growth and Culturally Competent Practice
Lessons Learned from Around the Globe
About this book
"Posttraumatic Growth and Culturally Competent Practice: Lessons Learned from Around the Globe brings welcome attention to applying PTG to culturally competent practice worldwide. It delivers on the promise embedded in its title: lots of lessons within the fourteen chapters." —From the Foreword by Charles R. Figley, PhD, Kurzweg Chair in Disaster Mental Health, Tulane University, New Orleans
The latest advances in the theoretical, empirical, and clinical aspects of Posttraumatic Growth
Posttraumatic Growth and Culturally Competent Practice offers contributions from an international group of experts in posttraumatic growth (PTG) within diverse cultures and subcultures. It uniquely illuminates the nature, meaning, and clinical implications of PTG across a wide range of sociocultural contexts.
Edited by Tzipi Weiss and Roni Berger—recognized experts in the areas of stress, coping, and PTG—this book features contributions by an international panel of renowned scholars and clinicians, offering a truly global perspective of PTG in cultures and regions including:
- The Middle East
- Israel
- Germany
- The Netherlands
- Japan
- China
- Australia
- Latinos in the U.S.
Offering research-based insights and practical interventions, this collection enables practitioners to offer informed and culturally sensitive services to those who have survived trauma in different parts of the world, and to support these survivors as they grow and harvest benefits from their ordeal.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 - The Posttraumatic Growth Model
- CHAPTER 2 - Posttraumatic Growth in Israeli Jews
- CHAPTER 3 - Posttraumatic Growth in a Middle Eastern Context
- CHAPTER 4 - Posttraumatic Growth in the Turkish Population
- CHAPTER 5 - Thriving in Postwar Kosova
- CHAPTER 6 - Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth in Germany
- CHAPTER 7 - Posttraumatic Growth in the Netherlands
- CHAPTER 8 - Posttraumatic Growth in Spain
- CHAPTER 9 - Posttraumatic Growth in U.S. Latinos
- CHAPTER 10 - Posttraumatic Growth in Japan
- CHAPTER 11 - Posttraumatic Growth in Chinese Culture
- CHAPTER 12 - Posttraumatic Growth in Australian Populations
- CHAPTER 13 - Posttraumatic Growth in International Study
- CHAPTER 14 - Posttraumatic Growth Around the Globe
- Author Index
- Subject Index