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Exploring the Psychological Benefits of Hardship

A Critical Reassessment of Posttraumatic Growth

By: Eranda Jayawickreme,Laura E.R. Blackie

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Exploring the Psychological Benefits of Hardship

A Critical Reassessment of Posttraumatic Growth

By: Eranda Jayawickreme,Laura E.R. Blackie

Can adversity lead to enduring positive change across the lifespan? Providing a thoughtful and considered exploration of this question, this book presents a critical reassessment of posttraumatic growth, based on correcting prior theoretical and methodological limitations in the current research. Its core argument is that posttraumatic growth should be reconceptualized as positive personality change, and thus should be studied using novel methodological approaches from the field of personality psychology. Broadly, this argument is put forward in five progressive sections. Beginning by giving a conceptual and interdisciplinary overview of posttraumatic growth as a phenomenon, the volume then reviews the current academic conceptualization of posttraumatic growth and makes a case for a ‘reset’ in the research. The next section maintains that posttraumatic growth is in fact a form of positive personality change and should be analyzed using personality science methodology. Using positive personality change as a theoretical foundation for posttraumatic growth, the following two sections look at posttraumatic growth in context. It is explored both in the long term, such as in the development of reflective knowledge and wisdom, and in specific situations such as with refugees in Sri Lanka and survivors of the Rwandan genocide. Lastly, Exploring the Psychological Benefits of Hardship: A Critical Reassessment of Posttraumatic Growth concludes by offering recommendations for scholars and researchers that will improve the quality of research on posttraumatic growth, and will advance this important and worthy field.

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A Killer Smile

By: Laura Kenner

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A Killer Smile

By: Laura Kenner

Familiar Stranger He appeared on her doorstep on a moonless, snowy night. He didn't know who he was or how he'd gotten there. Alone in the Rocky Mountains, with not another cabin in sight, Ellen Coster knew it wasn't happenstance that brought the sexy stranger to her. Ellen was hiding from a man, and "Jack Doe" could be him. He had scars that could have altered his face and he had memories that belonged to her. When he stepped over her threshold and into her life, she knew this love story would end one of two ways, and her life was safe with only one of them.

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Exploring the Psychological Benefits of Hardship

A Critical Reassessment of Posttraumatic Growth

By: Eranda Jayawickreme,Laura E.R. Blackie

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A Critical Reassessment of Posttraumatic Growth

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Exploring the Psychological Benefits of Hardship

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A Killer Smile

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Exploring the Psychological Benefits of Hardship

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