Posttraumatic Growth And Culturally Competent Practice: Lessons Learned From Around The Globe

"Posttraumatic Growth and Culturally Competent Practice: Lessons Learned from Around the Globe brings welcome attention to applying PTG to culturally competent practice worldwide. It delivers on the promise embedded in its title: lots of lessons within the fourteen chapters." —From the Foreword by Charles R. Figley, PhD, Kurzweg Chair in Disaster Mental Health, Tulane University, New Orleans
The latest advances in the theoretical, empirical, and clinical aspects of Posttraumatic Growth
Posttraumatic Growth and Culturally Competent Practice offers contributions from an international group of experts in posttraumatic growth (PTG) within diverse cultures and subcultures. It uniquely illuminates the nature, meaning, and clinical implications of PTG across a wide range of sociocultural contexts.
Edited by Tzipi Weiss and Roni Berger—recognized experts in the areas of stress, coping, and PTG—this book features contributions by an international panel of renowned scholars and clinicians, offering a truly global perspective of PTG in cultures and regions including:
The Middle East
Israel
Germany
The Netherlands
Japan
China
Australia
Latinos in the U.S.
Offering research-based insights and practical interventions, this collection enables practitioners to offer informed and culturally sensitive services to those who have survived trauma in different parts of the world, and to support these survivors as they grow and harvest benefits from their ordeal.

TZIPI WEISS, DSW, LCSW, is Associate Professor at Long Island University's C.W. Post Department of Social Work and Director of the undergraduate program. She is a board certified expert in traumatic stress, an advisor to community organizations, and a clinician in private practice.
RONI BERGER, PhD, LCSW, is a Professor at Adelphi University, a consultant to various professional organizations, and is in private practice. Her fields of expertise are immigrants, families (specifically stepfamilies), posttraumatic growth, qualitative research, and group work.

Posttraumatic Growth and Culturally Competent Practice: Lessons Learned from Around the Globe brings welcome attention to applying PTG to culturally competent practice worldwide. They deliver on their promise embedded in their title: lots of lessons within the fourteen chapters.
—From the Foreword by Charles R. Figley, PhD, Kurzweg Chair in Disaster Mental Health, Tulane University, New Orleans

Foreword.
About the Editors.
About the Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Chapter 1 The Posttraumatic Growth Model: Sociocultural Considerations (Lawrence G. Calhoun, Arnie Cann, and Richard G. Tedeschi).
Chapter 2 Posttraumatic Growth in Israeli Jews (Avital Laufer and Zahava Solomon).
Chapter 3 Posttraumatic Growth in Middle Eastern Context: Expression and determinants among Palestinians (Raija-Leena Punamäki).
Chapter 4 Posttraumatic Growth in the Turkish Population (Cengiz Kilic).
Chapter 5 Thriving in Postwar Kosova (Aliriza Arënliu and Moshe S. Landsman).
Chapter 6 Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth in Germany (BirgitWagner and Andreas Maercker).
Chapter 7 Posttraumatic Growth in the Netherlands (Grieteke Pool, Mirjam J. Nijdam, and Marijke E. Oostingh).
Chapter 8 Posttraumatic Growth in Spain (Carmelo Vázquez and Darío Páez).
Chapter 9 Posttraumatic Growth in U.S. Latinos (Roni Berger and Tzipi Weiss).
Chapter 10 Posttraumatic Growth in Japan: A Path toward Better Understanding of Culture-Constant and Culture-Specific Aspects (Kanako Taku).
Chapter 11 Posttraumatic Growth in Chinese Culture (Samuel M. Y. Ho and Yu Bai).
Chapter 12 Posttraumatic Growth in Australian Populations (Jane Shakespeare-Finch and Bronwyn Morris).
Chapter 13 Posttraumatic Growth in International Study: The Case of Chinese in Australia (Thomas A. Whelan and Winifred A. Cunningham).
Chapter 14 Posttraumatic Growth Around the Globe: Research Findings and Practice Implications (Tzipi Weiss and Roni Berger).
Author Index.
Subject Index.