dc.contributor.author |
Bray, Peter |
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dc.contributor.editor |
Callaghan, M |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2015-11-27T03:49:42Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2014 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
In How Trauma Resonates: Art, Literature and Theoretical Practice. Editor: Callaghan, M. 149-162. Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford 2014 |
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dc.identifier.isbn |
9781848882393 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/27587 |
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dc.description.abstract |
It is not altogether uncommon, in the aftermath of traumatic life events, for individuals and groups to report that they have had experiences and faced processes that have led to significant personal changes and positive psychological growth. In the last half century psychology has begun to broadly recognise and understand the potential psychological benefits to individuals who have successfully managed the balance between the painful challenges of trauma on the one hand and the emerging effects of flourishing and personal growth on the other. Counter-intuitively, these life-enhancing outcomes can include: improved psychological well-being and health; personal and spiritual development; increased coping skills and deepening relationships; enhanced personal resources; and, changes in religious and spiritual assumptions and beliefs. As a consequence, mainstream psychology has broadened its position on trauma, moving beyond its concern with impairment and pathology, to a curiosity about the incidence, meaning, and positive potential that these growth outcomes may have post-trauma. Similarly, as these outcomes are increasingly able to be measured, this chapter suggests that psychology’s ordinarily Cartesian caution toward trauma as a singularly quantifiable experience is being gently shifted by the post-modern perspectives being applied to this phenomenon. Thus, as psychology repositions itself in the new millennium, this chapter offers a number of contributions to trauma theory, and specifically post-traumatic growth, that informs our fuller consideration of the role of psycho-spiritual transformation in the processes, outcomes, and management of trauma beginning with: Abraham Maslow’s theory of peak experience and self-actualisation and Carl Rogers’ organismic valuing process; Stanislav Grof’s holotropic paradigm and formulation of psycho-spiritual transformation; the research conducted by Lawrence Calhoun and Richard Tedeschi’s on post-traumatic growth; and, Martin Seligman and Stephen Joseph’s conceptualisations of positive psychology. Together, these interdisciplinary strands capture something of a prevailing optimism and shared understanding that the struggle of post-traumatic experience may, for some at least, offer the potential for personal growth. |
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dc.description.uri |
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/product/how-trauma-resonates-art-literature-and-theoretical-practice/ |
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dc.publisher |
Inter-Disciplinary Press |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
How Trauma Resonates: Art, Literature and Theoretical Practice |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Accentuating the Positive: Self-Actualising Post-Traumatic Growth Processes |
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dc.type |
Book Item |
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pubs.begin-page |
149 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright:
Inter-Disciplinary Press |
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pubs.end-page |
162 |
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pubs.place-of-publication |
Oxford, England |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.elements-id |
504576 |
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pubs.org-id |
Education and Social Work |
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pubs.org-id |
Counselling,HumanServ &Soc.Wrk |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2015-11-11 |
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