The prevalence of moderate-to-high posttraumatic growth: A systematic review and meta-analysis

A traumatic event is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) as the exposure to actual or threatened death, severe trauma or sexual violence in one (or more) ways: (1) directly experiencing a traumatic event; (2) witnessing the occurrence of another person traumatic events; (3) learned that intimate family members or close friends have experienced traumatic events; (4) repeated experience or extreme exposure to traumatic events, such as police repeated contact with child abuse details.

Source: Journal of Affective Disorders - September 12, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Xiaoli Wu, Atipatsa C Kaminga, Wenjie Dai, Jing Deng, Zhipeng Wang, Xiongfeng Pan, Aizhong Liu Source Type: research