Promoting Capabilities to Manage Posttraumatic Stress [electronic resource] : Perspectives on Resilience

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paton, Douglas.

Contributor:

Violanti, John M.

Smith, Leigh M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment.

Post-traumatic stress.

Resilience (Personality trait).

Local Subjects:

Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment.

Post-traumatic stress.

Resilience (Personality trait).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Place of Publication:

Springfield : Charles C Thomas, 2003.

Summary:

This book provides a systematic review of the variables and mechanisms that underpin resilience and growth in professions who face a high risk of regular and repetitive exposure to adverse or hazardous events. Given the inevitability of this exposure, promoting the acceptance and practice of this paradigm is essential for facilitating the capability of emergency responders to adapt to, and if possible to grow from, adverse and hazardous experience. By identifying salient dispositional, cognitive, group, organizational, and environmental predictors of resilience and articulating the mechanisms

Contents:

PROMOTING CAPABILITIES TO MANAGE POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS; CONTENTS; Chapter 1 POSTTRAUMATIC PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS:; Chapter 2 ROUTES TO POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH; Chapter 3 A TRAIT APPROACH TO POSTTRAUMA; Chapter 4 HARDINESS TRAINING FOR RESILIENCY; Chapter 5 HARDINESS AS A RESILIENCY RESOURCE; Chapter 6 TEAM RESILIENCE; Chapter 7 TRAINING FOR RESILIENCE; Chapter 8 BUILDING PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE:; Chapter 9 SENSE OF COHERENCE IN MANAGING; Chapter 10 ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE:; Chapter 11 THE PROCESS OF TRUSTING:; Chapter 12 THE FAMILY: RESILIENCE RESOURCE AND; Chapter 13 RISK RESPONSE MODEL

Chapter 14 RESILIENCE AND GROWTH IN HIGH RISKNAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-398-08353-3

OCLC:

650017796