Posttraumatic Growth
Posttraumatic Growth👨🏻🚀
occurs in the aftermath of a variety of life crises 🙍💀 ☠️
☠️ occurs more distinctly in conditions of severe crisis rather than lower-level stress
👾 accompanied by transformative live changes that go beyond illusion
😥 experienced as an outcome rather than a coping mechanism
💩 requires a shattering of basic assumptions about an individual's life
Paradoxical Changes
🐤 🐣 🐥
positive changes individuals experience in their struggle with trauma include
improved relationships 🐶
new possibilities for their lives 🐱
greater appreciation for things in life 🐭
greater sense of personal strength 🐹
personal development 🐰
greater value for family life 🐼
NOTE
Posttraumatic
Growth
Psychological
Distress and
Comfort
The Process of Post Traumatic Growth (PTG)🌻
are separate
dimensions
🐷 individuals who experience posttraumatic growth do not necessarily experience a commensurate decrease in their levels of distress or an increase in happiness 🐯
Major life crisis 🐲
severe upheaval in individual's
🌏 major assumption about the
world and their place in it
trauma
😧
cognitive
engagement
😭
reconstruction of
😠 shattered
assumptions
increased
life 🎅
satisfaction
🐠Cognitive Engagement
🙍Recurring reflective thought that can lead to recognition that certain life goals are no longer available.
🙎Certain schemas no longer accurately reflect what it is #
🙇formulate new goals and revise major components of the assumptive world in ways that acknowledge the new situation.
takes place
in 2 domains
🐒
🐜Making Sense of the Immediate Circumstances
🌚(understand wthe particular sequence of events that led to the current set of circumstances)
🌝eg. what led a loved one to commit suicide
🐞 Making Sense of the More Fundamental Elements of Significance Raised by the Circumstances
🌚(understand existence in the aftermath)
🌝eg. live without the loved one
cognitive engagement with trauma is assisted by the disclusure of the internal process to others in socially supportive environments🙊 🙉 🙊
trauma
survivors
who are
supported
🐖 are
Less likely to 🐇 🐁experience depression
Experience higher levels of posttraumatic growth 🐂
Facilitating the🐬Process of PTG
PTG is likely to be inhibited by heavy-handed attempts to move trauma survivors toward understandings that have not yet been directly experienced 🌻 🌼 🌸 🌺
The counsellor must be well attuned to the client when the client may be in the process of
When working with clients dealing with traumatic circumstances, counsellors may need to have some degree of tolerance and respect for their use of some benign cognitive bases
🦊 🐻 🐼 🐨
🍃 reconstructing schemas
🍂 thinking dialectically
🍁 recognizing paradox
🍄 generating a revised life narative
Attempts to directly modify cognitions so that the benign "illusory" elements are corrected are likely to do psychological harm rather than to produce psychological benefit
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If the client is adjusting and not recovered enough, referral for clinical therapeutic intervention is necessary.
👨🏽🎨 👩🏽🚒
Writing assignments that encourage narrative development are useful for trauma survivors
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Self monitoring of changing beliefs in the aftermath of trauma
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