Post-Traumatic Growth

5025 Riverway Dr,Houston TX 77056

16 November, 2022

Description

Social workers and clients may wonder why some people seem to thrive after a traumatic event and others do not? This presentation will explore the model of resiliency and Post Traumatic Growth and identify factors that aid in resiliency. Out of resiliency may develop Post Traumatic Growth. Post Traumatic Growth is subjective, positive psychological change that develops when someone endures some major life crisis or traumatic event. Typically, these changes entail benefits, like increased life appreciation, renewed or altered life priorities, enhanced sense of personal strength, improved social relationships, perceived new possibilities, developing a deeper sense of spirituality and personal meaning, increased bodily care, positive health behavior changes, and augmented feelings of personal control. Christy joined the Hope and Healing Center & Institute in November of 2021. In 2020 she received her Master of Social Work from Baylor University, Diana R. Garland School of Social Work. Her second-year field placement was at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. It is here where she learned about Post Traumatic Growth, and this later became her topic for her capstone project. Christy considers herself a lifelong learner and she is a trainee in the Studies of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy program at Center for Psychoanalytic Studies.