
Post-Traumatic Growth, Stress, and Resilience: Understanding the Different Trauma Reactions
“People who suffer very bad events have new doors open for them and that it’s important to be prepared to walk through them.” --Martin Seligman Trauma is defined as any situation or event that overwhelms one’s ability to cope. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was first recognized as a mental illness when it was included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III) to describe the shared experience of veterans returning from the Vi