Facilitating Resilience and Recovery Following Trauma

This volume synthesizes cutting-edge research on natural processes of resilience and recovery, highlighting implications for trauma treatment and prevention. Prominent experts examine what enables many trauma survivors to heal over time without intervention, as well what causes others to develop long-term psychiatric problems. Identifying key, modifiable risk and resilience factors--such as cognitions and beliefs, avoidance, pain, and social support--the book provides recommendations for when (and when not) to intervene to promote recovery. Illustrative case examples are included. A section on specific populations discusses children, military personnel, and low socioeconomic status or marginalized communities.

I. Principles Underlying Natural and Therapeutic Recovery1. Conceptualizing Risk and Resilience Following Trauma Exposure, Lori A. Zoellner and Norah C. Feeny2. Acute Intervention, Richard A. Bryant and Angela Nickerson3. Therapeutic Recovery, Edna B. Foa and Carmen P. McLeanII. Resilience and Recovery in Special Populations4. Sociocultural and Ecological Views of Trauma: Replacing Cognitive-Emotional Models of Trauma, Stevan E. Hobfoll and Joop T. V. M. de Jong5. Children, John A. Fairbank, Ernestine C. Briggs, Karen Appleyard Carmody, Johanna K. P. Greeson, and Briana A. Woods6. The Military, Brett T. Litz, Maria M. Steenkamp, and William P. NashIII. Facilitating Natural and Therapeutic Recovery: Modifiable Risk and Resilience Factors7. The Nature of Traumatic Memory and Trauma Recovery, Lori A. Zoellner, Frank J. Farach, Larry D. Pruitt, and Norah C. Feeny8. Understanding Posttrauma Cognitions and Beliefs, J. Gayle Beck, Jason Jacobs-Lentz, Judiann McNiff Jones, Shira A. Olsen, and Joshua D. Clapp9. Disclosure of Traumatic Events, Denise M. Sloan and Blair E. Wisco10. Dissociation during and after Trauma, Agnes van Minnen, Rianne de Kleine, and Muriel Hagenaars11. Avoidance, Lori A. Zoellner, Elizabeth H. Marks, Janie J. Jun, and Hillary L. Smith12. Chronic Pain and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Gordon J. G. Asmundson, Lydia Gómez-Pérez, and Mathew G. Fetzner13. The Crucial Role of Social Support, Norah C. Feeny, Nina K. Rytwinski, and Lori A. ZoellnerIV. Integration and Future Directions14. Conclusion: Risk and Resilience Following Trauma Exposure, Norah C. Feeny and Lori A. Zoellner

Lori A. Zoellner, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress at the University of Washington. Her research and clinical experience focus on the prevention and treatment of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with particular expertise in the area of information processing. Dr. Zoellner has published extensively on PTSD and on its cognitive-behavioral treatment, and has given many workshops for practitioners on the prevention and treatment of chronic PTSD.Norah C. Feeny, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences and Director of the PTSD Treatment and Research Program at Case Western Reserve University. Her clinical and research interests and over 100 publications focus on the delivery and evaluation of cognitive-behavioral treatments for PTSD, treatment preferences, and treatment processes.