Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Weiss, Tzipi
• Berger, Roni

Titel

Posttraumatic Growth and Culturally Competent Practice: Lessons Learned from Around the Globe

Auflage

1. Aufl.

Ort / Verlag

Wiley

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• '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 OrleansThe latest advances in the theoretical, empirical, and clinical aspects of Posttraumatic GrowthPosttraumatic Growth and Culturally Competent Practiceoffers 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 EastIsraelGermanyThe NetherlandsJapanChinaAustraliaLatinos 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.