Post-Traumatic Growth is the positive psychological change that some individuals experience after a life crisis or traumatic event. Post-traumatic growth doesn’t deny deep distress, but rather posits ...

We all experience trauma over our lifetimes — the loss of a loved one, a bad injury or medical scare, a violent attack, a natural disaster. For most of us, fortunately, these incidents are few and far ...

NhuNgoc Pham was a high school student living in the New Orleans metro area when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. Her parents, immigrants from Vietnam, had recently purchased ...

The experience of significant life events, especially difficult ones, can motivate reflection on things we want to change. Psychologists have been studying this idea—known as post-traumatic growth—for ...