Focusing manner and posttraumatic growth

Zwiercan, Alicja; Joseph, Stephen

Abstract

© 2018, © 2018 World Association for Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counseling. Recent scholarship in the person-centered experiential (PCE) approach has theorized how organismic valuing might be an important process factor in the development of posttraumatic growth. In a test of this prediction we investigated the association between Gendlin’s focusing and posttraumatic growth in 87 participants. All completed measures of focusing attitudes, posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth. The results showed that higher scores on focusing attitudes were significantly associated with lower scores on posttraumatic stress (r=−.39, p

Citation

Zwiercan, A., & Joseph, S. (2018). Focusing manner and posttraumatic growth. Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, 17(3), 191-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2018.1517659

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 30, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Oct 1, 2018
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Oct 22, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 2, 2019
• Journal: Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies
• Print ISSN: 1477-9757
• Electronic ISSN: 1752-9182
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 191-200
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2018.1517659
• Keywords: Focusing; Posttraumatic growth; Organismic valuing; Felt sense
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1179504
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14779757.2018.1517659
• Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Person-Centered and Experimental Psychotherapies on 01/10/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14779757.2018.1517659