Conceptualizing mindfulness and acceptance as components of psychological resilience to trauma

Trauma, Violence, and Abuse

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 220-235

  Thompson, Rachel W ^a   Arnkoff, Diane B ^a   Glass, Carol R ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

mental health and violence; PTSD; violence exposure

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVOR; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 80052488103     PISSN: 15248380     EISSN: 15528324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524838011416375     Document Type: Article

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