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Factors Impacting Posttraumatic Growth in Children and Adolescents
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Factors Impacting Posttraumatic Growth in Children and Adolescents
Yazar:
Ferris, Cheyenne, author.
ISBN:
9780438107298
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1 electronic resource (59 pages)
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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06M(E).
Advisors: Kyle O'Brien.
Özet:
Background: Exposure to traumatic experiences is unfortunately an incredibly common occurrence. Surviving a traumatic experience can have implications across the lifespan, such as poor mental health and physical health outcomes, effects on brain development, and significant economic implications. Despite these adverse effects, trauma exposure can also lead to more adaptive functioning. Posttraumatic growth (PTG) refers to a positive psychological change as a result of a seismic and highly challenging life circumstance. PTG results in an individual experiencing development which has surpassed their baseline level of functioning prior to the struggle where crises occurred. Objectives: This analytical thesis sought to explore factors associated with development of posttraumatic growth, and the specific populations which demonstrate the occurrence of psychological growth after trauma exposure. Results can be utilized to better inform the use of clinical interventions that promote a growth perspective after trauma exposure. Methods: A systematic review of the current literature was completed to explore factors related to the development of PTG within children and adolescents exposed to trauma. Results: Studies investigated a range of factors that contribute toward or impact the development of PTG in youth and adolescents from 5 countries: United States, Israel, China, Japan & Norway. Studies addressed multiple types of trauma experiences, including medical traumas, war/terror related traumas, and environmental traumas. Data suggested that factors that impact the development of PTG include the presence of posttraumatic stress symptomology, specifically intrusiveness, and cognitive factors, such as the use of positive reappraisal and deliberate rumination. Many factors demonstrated inconsistencies across studies, such as the impact of age, gender, social support, and parent factors. Conclusion: Findings from this systematic research study encourage the notion that certain clinical intervention strategies such as deliberate rumination, positive reappraisal coping strategies, and specialized group therapy may facilitate growth in trauma survivors. Future research should test if these intervention strategies directly impact growth, and if there may be an evidence-based form of intervention to assist clinicians in taking a growth and strengths-based perspective after trauma.
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School code: 0928
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