Transcending trauma : survival, resilience and clinical implications in survivor families

"The Transcending Trauma Project (TTP), begun in 1991, is a large qualitative research endeavor based on 275 comprehensive life interviews of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, their children, and their grandchildren. Using this research as a base, Transcending Trauma presents an integrated model...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hollander-Goldfein, Bea , 1951- (Author), Goldenberg, Jennifer E. (Author), Isserman, Nancy , 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge , c2012
Series:Routledge psychosocial stress series 40
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The transcending trauma project
  • 2. Resilience after prolonged trauma: an integrated framework
  • 3. Making the unmanageable manageable: innovative tools for analyzing a large qualitative dataset
  • 4. "The biggest star Is your mother": prewar coping strategies of 18 adolescent survivors
  • 5. The hows and whys of survival: causal attributions and the search for meaning
  • 6. "If somebody throws a rock on you, you throw back bread": the impact of family dynamics on tolerance and intolerance in survivors of genocide
  • 7. A minyan of trees: the role of faith and ritual in postwar coping and its relevance to working with trauma survivors
  • 8. Parenting in survivor families: critical factors in determining family patterns
  • 9. "Like a bridge over troubled waters": divergent parenting and the mediating influence of positive parental attachment
  • 10. "The elephant in the room": survivors' holocaust communication with their children
  • 11. Holocaust narratives and their impact on adult children of survivors
  • 12. A systemic perspective of coping and adaptation: the inextricable connection between individual and family