Human Strengths and Resilience: Developmental, Cross-Cultural, and International Perspectives [Hardcover]

Human and Strengths fills a gap in current literature on trauma survivors. Co-editors Grant J. Rich and Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn have assembled an international group of leading contributors who have taught, counseled, consulted, and conducted research in all regions of the world, including North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Pacific Region, Latin America, the Caribbean Region, and the Middle East. Contributors to this edited collection use their expertise to highlight positive psychology and strength-based approaches to post-traumatic growth and resilience in understudied, developing nations like Cambodia, Haiti, India, Syria, Armenia, Sierra Leone, Taiwan, Guatemala, and South Africa.

Grant J. Rich is consulting psychologist in Juneau, Alaska.

Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn is assistant professor at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University.

Combining principles of positive psychology with cross-cultural perspectives, Rich (independent scholar), Sirikantraporn (California School of Professional Psychology), and their team of international contributors focus on human strengths and resilience in understudied nations. The volume is novel and timely in its framework of a strength-based positive psychology approach to posttraumatic growth (PTG) and resilience (page xviii) in contrast to a more traditional focus on PTSD and trauma in an international context. Most of the chapters implement a developmental perspective, highlighting lifespan growth. Using different methodological approaches (e.g., mixed methods, grounded theory) and age-varied samples, the authors examine existing theories on resilience and their application to a variety of contexts. These contexts include PTG in Indian undergraduates, Haitian adults, and Cambodian young adults; the case of Precious in South Africa; and resilience in Guatemala, in Taiwan, and among Syrian refugees. The last two chapters provide a more practice-based applS=