What´s Post Traumatic Growth?

Posttraumatic growth is continuing to be studied by researchers and neuroscientists as another way to help people heal and thrive after experiencing trauma. It would be helpful to have more understanding of the factors to facilitate PTG and how to incorporate those into treatment planning and interventions for trauma clients. A future study could be to research and create a PTG assessment similar to the Gottman marriage online assessment, which provides a clinician with a full 50 page report on the client’s strengths and weaknesses and how to use interventions to help the client. Using technology to better assess clients and provide clinicians with effective reports to implement interventions could lead to better treatment for the client and possibly less compassion fatigue for clinicians, especially in trauma work. …show more content…
People would need less medical and mental health care, which reduces our high cost of medical care in the United States. Soldiers would be able to integrate better into their jobs and family life. We need to research more on understanding and using PTG with traumatized children, because increasing PTG for children could influence healthier classroom experiences, healthier family relationships, and children having a possibly better mental health outlook later on in adulthood. Lastly, we need to publicize PTG so more professionals are aware of this positive trauma theory. Traumatized children and adults would benefit from more clinicians being trained and utilizing PTG to help them reach their maximum potential for healing and possibly thriving after