PSY336H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Posttraumatic Growth, Extraversion And Introversion, Distressing
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Posttraumatic growth is the experience of positive change that occurs as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life crises. Posttraumatic growth refers to positive psychological change experienced as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances. For the minority, negative events can serve to have positive outcomes, but it is not the majority in the least. Though said that continuing personal growth and distress often coexist. Focusing on the positive aspects of the struggle with trauma. Any kind of stress can lead to posttraumatic growth. Differs from resilience, hardiness, optimism, and a sense of coherence. Ptg involves movement beyond pre-trauma levels of adaptation. Growth does not occur as a direct result of trauma, it is the individual"s struggle with the new reality in the aftermath of trauma that is crucial in determining the extent of ptg. People don"t actively go to make meaning out of the event.
