TY - JOUR
KW - Trauma
KW - Positive emotions
KW - Vulnerability
KW - Posttraumatic growth
KW - Resilience
AU - Carmelo Vázquez
AU - Pau Pérez-Sales
AB - In this paper we defend a new framework, based in positive emotions, to conceptualize posttraumatic stress reactions. Clinical models of psychopathology have traditionally focused on issues as vulnerability and deficits. Yet, psychological research in the last decade has shown that positive emotions and cognitions are necessary to understand human psychological functioning. We review the role that such positive elements (e.g., personality traits, emotional positive self-regulation, etc.) may have to fully understand human response in facing adversity. A reconceptualization of trauma from that new point of view may also help to understand such common phenomena as resilience, or posttraumatic growth. That approach may also help to develop effective preventive and therapeutic strategies to deal with trauma responses.
IS - 2-3
M3 - Journal article
N2 - In this paper we defend a new framework, based in positive emotions, to conceptualize posttraumatic stress reactions. Clinical models of psychopathology have traditionally focused on issues as vulnerability and deficits. Yet, psychological research in the last decade has shown that positive emotions and cognitions are necessary to understand human psychological functioning. We review the role that such positive elements (e.g., personality traits, emotional positive self-regulation, etc.) may have to fully understand human response in facing adversity. A reconceptualization of trauma from that new point of view may also help to understand such common phenomena as resilience, or posttraumatic growth. That approach may also help to develop effective preventive and therapeutic strategies to deal with trauma responses.
PB - Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés
PY - 2003
SN - 2174-0437/1134-7937
SP - 231
EP - 254
T2 - Ansiedad y Estrés
TI - Positive emotions, trauma, and resistance
VL - 9
ER -