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Title Promoting capabilities to manage posttraumatic stress : perspectives on resilience / edited by Douglas Paton, John M. Violanti, Leigh M. Smith.

Publication Info. Springfield, Ill. : Charles C. Thomas Pub., [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 222 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Foreword / John P. King -- Preface -- Chap. 1. Posttraumatic psychological stress : individual, group, and organizational perspectives on resilience and growth / Douglas Paton, John M. Violanti, and Leigh M. Smith -- Chap. 2. Routes to posttraumatic growth through cognitive processing / Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun -- Chap. 3. A trait approach to posttrauma vulnerability and growth / Carmen Moran and Jane Shakespeare-Finch -- Chap. 4. Hardiness training for resiliency and leadership / Salvatore R. Maddi and Deborah M. Khoshaba -- Chap. 5. Hardiness as a resiliency resource under high stress conditions / Paul T. Bartone -- Chap. 6. Team resilience / Clare Pollock, Douglas Paton, Leigh M. Smith, and John M. Volanti -- Chap. 7. Training for resilience / Clare Pollock, Douglas Paton, Leigh M. Smith and John M. Violanti -- Chap. 8. Building psychological resilience : learning from the South African Police Service / Merle Friedman and Craig Higson-Smith -- Chap. 9. Sense of coherence in managing trauma workers / Christine Dunning -- Chap. 10. Environmental resilience : psychological empowerment in high-risk professions / Peter Johnston and Douglas Paton -- Chap. 11. The process of trusting : its relevance to vulnerability and resilience in traumatic situations / Roy L. Payne and Murray Clark -- Chap. 12. The family : resilience resource and resilience needs / Jane Shakespeare-Finch, Douglas Paton, and John M. Violanti -- Chap. 13. Risk response module / Leigh M. Smith and John M. Violanti -- Chap. 14. Resilience and growth in high-risk professions : reflections and future directions / Douglas Paton, John M. Violanti, and Leigh M. Smith -- Name index -- Subject index.
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.
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Subject Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Treatment.
Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Treatment.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Resilience (Personality trait)
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic -- prevention & control.
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic -- rehabilitation.
Adaptation, Psychological.
Counseling -- methods.
Defense Mechanisms.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Paton, Douglas.
Violanti, John M.
Smith, Leigh M.
Other Form: Print version: Promoting capabilities to manage posttraumatic stress. Springfield, Ill. : Charles C. Thomas Pub., ©2003 (DLC) 2002022800 (OCoLC)49249313
ISBN 9780398083533 (electronic book)
0398083533 (electronic book)
0398073171 (hardcover)
9780398073176 (hardcover)
039807318X (paper)
9780398073183 (paper)