post-traumatic growth
pohst truh-MAT-ik GROHTH
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positive psychological change that emerges from the struggle with highly challenging, traumatic life circumstances; the concept developed by Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun in the 1990s, documenting that many trauma survivors report meaningful improvements in five domains: personal strength, new possibilities, relating to others, appreciation of life, and spiritual or existential change; post-traumatic growth is not the absence of distress but the experience of positive transformation alongside ongoing pain; distinguished from resilience in that growth represents a change beyond the pre-trauma baseline rather than mere recovery to it
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