TARGET ARTICLE: "Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence"

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Posttraumatic Growth in Women with Breast Cancer and Their Husbands

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Posttraumatic Growth among Adolescents

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Paternal and maternal coping with the death of a child

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Posttraumatic growth following breast cancer: A controlled comparison study.

2001 • 67 citations

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Loss and Meaning: How Do People Make Sense of Loss?

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The Search for Meaning and Its Potential for Affecting Growth in Bereaved Parents

1983 • 60 citations

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A Personal Account

1998 • 57 citations

Immigration and Posttraumatic Growth-A Missing Link

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Psychological impairment in the wake of disaster: The disaster-psychopathology relationship.

1991 • 52 citations

Implications of Posttraumatic Growth for Individuals

1998 • 49 citations

Positive by-products of the struggle with chemical dependency

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Strens and traumas

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Trauma symptom correlates of criminal victimization in an urban community sample, South Africa

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Rape: A Precursor of Change

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The role of interior design elements in human responses to crowding.

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A whole new life

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People nominated as wise: A comparative study of wisdom-related knowledge.

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Construing Benefit from a Negative Experience of Incest

1992 • 22 citations

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1983 • 22 citations

Social support for the bereaved: Recipients' and providers' perspectives on what is helpful.

1986 • 22 citations

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Struggling for meaning: How HIV-positive gay men make sense of AIDS.

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Depressotypic Cognitive Patterns in Major Depression and Conjugal Bereavement

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After Great Pain: A New Life Emerges

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A Personal Account

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Armenia: A Country's History of Challenges

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