We all experience trauma over our lifetimes — the loss of a loved one, a bad injury or medical scare, a violent attack, a natural disaster. For most of us, fortunately, these incidents are few and far ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Metahab at Sacramento State connects academic, research, and interprofessional resources to provide strengths-based curriculum, community programs, and organizational support promoting resilience, ...

Much of clinical psychologist Dr Edith Shiro's professional life revolves around the axis of trauma. In her Miami practice she specialises in helping people to unpick their life's most destabilising ...

When childhood cancer treatment ends, the emotional impact often does not. A new study published in the Nature journal ...

Postraumatic growth isn't about getting back to how you were, it's about transforming adversity into a catalyst to take your life to a whole new level. The old saying that what doesn’t kill you makes ...

The experience of significant life events, especially difficult ones, can motivate reflection on things we want to change. Psychologists have been studying this idea—known as post-traumatic growth—for ...

After graduating from college, I lived in China for two years. There, I encountered profound wisdom from people who had been through hell and back and remained sovereign: wise, happy, and thriving.

Dear Doctors: My wife has a condition where any disruption to her skin, like a bug bite, a scratch or exposure to poison ivy, results in a rash that spreads over half of her body. It’s not related to ...