Human Strengths and Resilience

Human Strengths and Resilience fills an important gap in current literature on trauma survivors by explicitly focusing on international work concerning positive psychology and strength-based approaches to post-traumatic growth (PTG) and resilience in understudied developing nations like Haiti, Cambodia, India, and Syria.

Grant J. Rich is consulting psychologist in Juneau, Alaska. Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn is assistant professor at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University.

Introduction: Human Strengths and Resilience: Developmental, Cross-Cultural, and International Perspectives Grant Rich and Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn Chapter 1: The Concept of Posttraumatic Growth in a Sample of Undergraduates from India: A Mixed Methods Study Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn, Grant J. Rich, and Julie Badaracco Chapter 2: The Concept of Posttraumatic Growth in an Adult Sample from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti: A Mixed Methods Study Grant Rich, Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn, and Wismick Jean-Charles Chapter 3: The Concept of Posttraumatic Growth in a Cambodian Sample: A Grounded Theory Study Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn, Grant J. Rich, and Nashaw Jafari Chapter 4: Resilience in Guatemala: Contextual Overview with Future Perspectives Tannia de Castañeda and María del Pilar Grazioso Chapter 5: Resilience in Taiwan: The Shaping Forces of Confucian Cultural Context and Beliefs about Adversity Ching-Yu (Soar) Huang Chapter 6: The Resilience Processes of South African Adolescent Girls with Histories of Sexual Abuse Sadiyya Haffejee and Linda Theron Chapter 7: Resilience and Strengths in Syrian Refugees Naji Abi-Hashem Chapter 8: Meaningfulworld Trauma Outreach and Prevention Across Cultures: Utilizing the 7-Step Integrative Healing Model for Resilience and Meaning-Making Ani Kalayjian and Daria Diakonova-Curtis Chapter 9: Resilience and Recovery in Natural Disasters and Epidemics: Comparisons, Challenges, and Lessons Learned from Train-the-Trainer Projects Judy Kuriansky, Alexandra Margevich, Wismick Jean-Charles. andRussell Daisey