Citation

Bonanno GA. Psychol. Trauma 2008; (1): 101-113.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/1942-9681.S.1.101

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This reprinted article originally appeared in American Psychologist, 2004, Vol 59(1), 20-28. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2004-10043-003.) Many people are exposed to loss or potentially traumatic events at some point in their lives, and yet they continue to have positive emotional experiences and show only minor and transient disruptions in their ability to function. Unfortunately, because much of psychology's knowledge about how adults cope with loss or trauma has come from individuals who sought treatment or exhibited great distress, loss and trauma theorists have often viewed this type of resilience as either rare or pathological. The author challenges these assumptions by reviewing evidence that resilience represents a distinct trajectory from the process of recovery, that resilience in the face of loss or potential trauma is more common than is often believed, and that there are multiple and sometimes unexpected pathways to resilience. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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