TY - JOUR PY - 2022// TI - Growth and hope after loss: how TAPS facilitates posttraumatic growth in those grieving military deaths JO - Frontiers in psychology A1 - Moore, Melinda A1 - Palmer, Jerry K. A1 - Cerel, Julie A1 - Ruocco, Kim SP - e996041 EP - e996041 VL - 13 IS - N2 - We examined posttraumatic growth for 691 participants of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS). Peer mentors of bereaved individuals experienced greater posttraumatic growth (PTG) and reported higher psychological health than those who were non-peer mentors. Active involvement in TAPS and resilience consistently and positively predicted all types of PTG. These prediction models were far stronger (R(2), AIC) for the suicide-bereaved sample than those bereaved by other causes, and post-hoc analyses suggest suicide-bereaved benefitted more than those bereaved by other causes from active participation in TAPS.

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LA - en SN - 1664-1078 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.996041 ID - ref1 ER -