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PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
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Post-traumatic Growth
There is a lot of literature available on the Internet and through other resources dealing with the whole concept of post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD. PTSD looks at the consequences of trauma and tries to diagnose and identify and develop some appropriate treatment strategies for this condition. This literature needs to be followed carefully and there are many very good resources, some of which are linked in the “Links” section of this website.However, one of the issues that we are concerned about at seasonsofcaring.org is the need to help people to see what comes next. While we do not mean to diminish any of the major issues and tragedies and continuing tragedies that are apparent in people struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, we also want to develop our programming in such a way that people can see the light of post-traumatic growth, PTG. PTG in this line of thinking refers to the point at which the person possesses the capacity and skills to engage in productive activities that begin to move the person away from the experience of the trauma as the major daily life experience. Post-traumatic growth can include things like developing alternative strategies for coping with daily living necessities and actually doing some planning, where possible, considering all the local realities, beyond the next meal or beyond the next space of a few hours or a few days. Our media programming will seek to help people to see that even in the midst of chaos, positive choices that could have more positive longterm consequences can be made, and that life does not have to necessarily have a fatalistic bent.
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