Promoting capabilities to manage posttraumatic stress : perspectives on resilience /

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 pa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Paton, Douglas, Violanti, John M., Smith, Leigh M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Springfield, Ill. : Charles C. Thomas Pub., ©2003.
Temas:
Post-traumatic stress disorder > Treatment.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Adaptability (Psychology)
Defense mechanisms (Psychology)
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic > prevention & control
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic > rehabilitation
Adaptation, Psychological
Counseling > methods
Defense Mechanisms
État de stress post-traumatique > Traitement.
Résilience (Trait de personnalité)
Adaptation (Psychologie)
Mécanismes de défense.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxii, 222 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780398083533
0398083533

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