Women’s Journeys to Posttraumatic Growth: A Guide for the Helping Professions and Women Who Have Experienced Trauma

This book discusses the concept of posttraumatic growth, emphasizing practice implications for healthcare professionals and strategies for fostering posttraumatic growth. It includes research on women's experiences and presents the theoretical framework of posttraumatic growth, synthesizing relevant international research and introducing data from qualitative studies. It offers clinical and nursing practice implications and explores current self-help and professional therapeutic strategies to promote posttraumatic growth.

Format: Hardback
Length: 162 pages
Publication date: 01 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This accessible book delves into extensive research surrounding women's experiences, aiming to illustrate and explore the concept of posttraumatic growth. It emphasizes the practical implications for healthcare professionals and offers strategies to foster posttraumatic growth. By incorporating the voices of women, the book elucidates the distinctions between post-traumatic stress disorder and posttraumatic growth, providing a theoretical framework for understanding the latter. It synthesizes relevant international research and presents data from four new qualitative research studies on posttraumatic growth in women who have undergone the loss of a spouse or long-term partner, the death of a child, a near-death experience, and intimate partner abuse. The book further develops clinical and nursing practice implications for healthcare professionals, while also exploring current self-help and professional therapeutic approaches to promote posttraumatic growth.

Womens Journeys to Posttraumatic Growth serves as an invaluable resource for health and social care practitioners, as well as students and researchers with a keen interest in trauma, abuse, bereavement, and loss, and women's healthcare. It offers a comprehensive exploration of the topic, providing valuable insights and practical tools for those working with individuals who have undergone challenging experiences.

Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032598680