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Predicting Post-traumatic growth and post-traumatic stress in firefighters ● What did you find most interesting about this article/chapter? Something I found interesting about this article was that occupational stress was found to be the biggest predictor of PTSD even over social support and coping. This is surprising to me because I would think that lacking social support and coping strategies would contribute more to post traumatic stress. I can see how having a sense of belonging and respect at your workplace can be protective factors because I have always felt so much more cared about and supported when I had respect from my bosses and coworkers. I also thought it was interesting that post traumatic growth was higher when trauma was experienced in both personal lives and work lives. I would think having more trauma would just contribute more to post traumatic stress. ● What questions came up for you as you read this? Describe what you wanted to know more about. The article talked about social support being a significant predictor of PTSD symptoms and I wonder why that is. It would make sense to me that having more social support would actually decrease PTSD symptoms. How does added support contribute to PTSD symptoms when having social support should be beneficial in my mind. I also wondered why self care was found to be the only coping variable that actually predicted PTG. There has to be so many more coping strategies that contribute to PTG. I myself am diagnosed with PTSD and my therapist has provided so many more coping strategies that work than just self care. I think the researchers had to have just picked bad coping strategies to use in the study. ● How do you think you can use this information in your future studies or future work? Research supports the idea that there is a relationship between coping strategies and post traumatic growth and I think that is something I can use in my future work. No matter what population of people I am working with, I can provide coping strategies to them that will help in the development of post traumatic growth. I also think it is helpful to know that experiencing stress in multiple areas of life, both work life and personal life, are strong predictors of PTSD. I can keep this in mind when working with clients that experience a lot of stress in multiple different areas of life. ● What information from this article do you think would be most helpful for families? Please explain why. I think it would be important for families to know that a sense of belonging and support from the organization you are working for are protective buffers against stress. I would want all families to know that if they themselves, or even their kids that are new to the workforce, are experiencing an overwhelming amount of stress from work, it might be

beneficial to find a new job. Especially if it is your management or boss that is not supporting you, I think families should know that nobody deserves that kind of treatment and good employers should actually help you in reducing stress. I also think it would be important for families, especially parents, to know that reduced social support can be related to PTSD. Parents can encourage positive social relationships in their kids' lives and that can be helpful in coping with stress.

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