Understanding the experience of posttraumatic growth following life threatening physical illness
Diverging from the pathological focus of 1950's psychology, positive psychologists have concentrated on the potential for people to grow and enhance their quality of life following adversity, a phenomenon coined as "posttraumatic growth" (PTG) (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996). Although...
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University of Strathclyde
2008
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501798 |