Stephen Joseph & P. Alex Linley 
Trauma, Recovery, and Growth 
Positive Psychological Perspectives on Posttraumatic Stress

The latest theory and research on understanding posttraumatic
stressand its treatment, providing evidence-based clinical
interventionsusing techniques drawn from positive psychology

It is known that exposure to stressful and traumatic events can
have severe and chronic psychological consequences. At the same
time-mindful of the suffering often caused by trauma-there is also
a growing body of evidence testifying to posttraumatic growth: the
positive psychological changes that can result for survivors of
trauma.

Blending these two areas of research and exploring the relevance of
positive psychology to trauma practice, Trauma, Recovery, and
Growth: Positive Psychological Perspectives on Posttraumatic
Stress provides clinicians with the resources they need to
implement positive psychology interventions in their trauma
treatment across a spectrum of?therapeutic perspectives, including
cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, existential, and
group therapies.

Featuring contributions by internationally renowned researchers and
practitioners and edited by experts in the field of positive
psychology who have worked with survivors of trauma in the
facilitation of their resilience, recovery, and growth, this timely
book is divided into four parts:

* Toward an Integrative Positive Psychology of Posttraumatic
Experience

* Growth and Distress in Social, Community, and Interpersonal
Contexts

* Clinical Approaches and Therapeutic Experiences of Managing
Distress and Facilitating Growth

* Beyond the Stress-Growth Distinction: Issues at the Cutting
Edge of Theory and Practice

Trauma, Recovery, and Growth explores the role positive
psychology can play in how clinical practitioners treat and work
with survivors of stressful and traumatic events and offers an
optimistic perspective in the treatment of those who suffer
posttraumatic stress following devastating events such as terrorist
attacks, childhood sexual abuse, cancer, and war.

Table of Content

Preface.

Contributors.

Part I: Toward An Integrative Positive Psychology of
Posttraumatic Experience.

1. Positive Psychological Perspectives on Posttraumatic Stress:
An Integrative Psychosocial Framework (Stephen Joseph and P. Alex
Linley)

2. Psychological Assessment of Growth Following Adversity: A
Review (Stephen Joseph and P. Alex Linley)

Part II: Growth and Distress in Social Community, and
Interpersonal Contexts.

3. Resilience and Thriving in a Time of Terrorism (Leslie A.
Morland, Lisa D. Butler, and Gregory A. Leskin)

4. Positive Effects of Terrorism and Posttraumatic Growth: An
Individual and Community Perspective (Carmelo Vazquez, Pau
Perez-Sales, and Gonzalo Hervas)

5. Posttraumatic Growth and Immigration: theory, research and
Practice Implications (Tzipi Weiss and Roni Berger)

6. Broken Vows: Divorce as a Spiritual Trauma and Its
Implications for Growth and Decline (Annette Mahoney< Elizabeth
J. Krumrei, and Kenneth I. Pargament)

7. Growth Through Loss and Adversity in close Relationships
(John H. Harvey)

8. Beyond Survival: Growing out of Childhood Sexual Abuse
(Rachel Lev-Wiesel)

9. Posttraumatic Growth Following Sexual Assault (Patricia A.
Frazier and Margit I. Berman)

Part III: Clinical Approaches and Therapeutic Experiences of
Managing Distress and Facilitating Growth.

10. Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth Following Cancer (Matthew
J. Cordova)

11. Group-Based Therapies for Benefit Finding in Cancer (Suzanne
C. Lechner, Brenda L. Stoelb, and Michael H. Antoni)

12. Using a Life Span Model to Promote Recovery and Growth in
Traumatized Veterans (Judith A. Lyons)

13. Recovery from Brain Injury and Positive Rehabilitation
Practice (Joanna Collicutt Mc Grath)

14. Professional Quality of Life and Trauma Therapists(Debra
Larsen and Beth Hudnall Stamm)

Part IV: Beyond the Stress-Growth Distinction: Issues at the
Cutting Edge of Theory and Practice.

15. A Contrarian View of Growth Following Adversity (Julian D.
Ford, Howard Tennen, and David Albert)

16. The Paradox of Struggling with Trauma: Guidelines for
Practice and Directions for Research (Lawrence G. Calhoun and
Richard G. Tedeschi)

17. Reflections on Theory and Practice in Trauma, Recovery, and
Growth: A Paradigm Shift for the Field of Traumatic Stress (Stephen
Joseph and P. Alex Linley)

Author Index.

Subject Index.

About the author

Stephen Joseph, Ph D, is Professor of Psychology, Health and Social Care at The University of Nottingham, where he is codirector of the Centre for Trauma, Resilience and Growth and an Honorary Consultant Psychologist in Psychotherapy at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

P. Alex Linley, Ph D, is Director of the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology, Coventry, United Kingdom (see www.cappeu.org). His work is dedicated to the applications of positive psychology, and includes roles as an Associate Editor of The Journal of Positive Psychology and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology.