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Human Strengths and Resilience fills an important gap in current literature on trauma survivors by explicitly focusing on international work concerning positive psychology and strength-based approaches to post-traumatic growth (PTG) and resilience in understudied developing nations like Haiti, Cambodia, India, and Syria.
List of contents
Introduction: Human Strengths and Resilience: Developmental, Cross-Cultural, and International Perspectives
Grant Rich and Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn
Chapter 1: The Concept of Posttraumatic Growth in a Sample of Undergraduates from India: A Mixed Methods Study
Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn, Grant J. Rich, and Julie Badaracco
Chapter 2: The Concept of Posttraumatic Growth in an Adult Sample from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti: A Mixed Methods Study
Grant Rich, Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn, and Wismick Jean-Charles
Chapter 3: The Concept of Posttraumatic Growth in a Cambodian Sample: A Grounded Theory
Study
Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn, Grant J. Rich, and Nashaw Jafari
Chapter 4: Resilience in Guatemala: Contextual Overview with Future Perspectives
Tannia de Castañeda and María del Pilar Grazioso
Chapter 5: Resilience in Taiwan: The Shaping Forces of Confucian Cultural Context and Beliefs about Adversity
Ching-Yu (Soar) Huang
Chapter 6: The Resilience Processes of South African Adolescent Girls with Histories of Sexual Abuse
Sadiyya Haffejee and Linda Theron
Chapter 7: Resilience and Strengths in Syrian Refugees
Naji Abi-Hashem
Chapter 8: Meaningfulworld Trauma Outreach and Prevention Across Cultures: Utilizing the 7-Step Integrative Healing Model for Resilience and Meaning-Making
Ani Kalayjian and Daria Diakonova-Curtis
Chapter 9: Resilience and Recovery in Natural Disasters and Epidemics: Comparisons,
Challenges, and Lessons Learned from Train-the-Trainer Projects
Judy Kuriansky, Alexandra Margevich, Wismick Jean-Charles. and Russell Daisey
About the author
Edited by Grant J. Rich and Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn - Foreword by Chris Stout - Contributions by Julie C. Badaracco; Grant J. Rich; Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn; Wismick Jean-Charles; Nashaw Jafari; Tannia de Castañeda; María del Pilar Grazioso; Ch
Summary
Human Strengths and Resilience fills an important gap in current literature on trauma survivors by explicitly focusing on international work concerning positive psychology and strength-based approaches to posttraumatic growth (PTG) and resilience in understudied developing nations like Haiti, Cambodia, India, and Syria.
