 module 29, post-traumatic growth so what is post-traumatic growth post-traumatic growth when the person is experiencing any stressful life event and after that he or she is moving towards the life with a more positive approach like a more positively psychologically better person okay so when a person faces any distress or any trauma or any stress and by facing that stress rather than going into a mal-adjustment the person's functioning level is better and that life starts to understand in a better way and a new angle to see the world drives through that trauma so we say that this person's psychological growth is post-traumatic growth now basically when we look at the children we get less literature in it but mostly the five domains for post-traumatic growth are discussed which we will discuss here so the first domain is personal growth the second is the growth in close relationship then a greater appreciation for life new possibilities and spiritual development so now we will do them one by one so basically how does this growth reflect in any person for example personal growth will reflect that if the first person is saying why this is happening to to me then his approach will be more optimistic in the sense that i can do that thing okay so more feelings will be developed in which the self-reliance will be generated and it will feel that he or she can be able to perform different things like this people usually give such verbatims for example they can say if i handle this then i can handle just about anything okay if i can face this problem then i can face any situation okay so these types of verbatims you will get in listening close relationships are their improvements that is if they are first afraid of interacting then after that they want to interact because they feel themselves better they get this idea that when the time of distress comes or a difficult time comes then the people help you out and this sense of helping develops closeness towards the other people and at the same time different people can see different kinds of manifestation for the growth of this close relationship for example you find out who your real friends are in a situation like this as we usually say that when a difficult time comes then it is known that who is your real friend so these kinds of things are realized by these people and these relationships are their close connections with different people after stress or after trauma develop and then greater appreciation for life i.e. first if there are resentments in them then they move towards the gratitude okay they start getting an idea that what their priorities should be their life's priorities change completely they start understanding that there are many things that they consider important in their life maybe they are not so important if they are seeking gratification from the bigger things then their mental set changes and they are trying to get the satisfaction from the smallest thing okay for example a person can say that even the smallest joys in life took on a special meaning i take time to stop and smell the roses okay and they are just want to experience those things okay then the last one is the spiritual growth if the person is hope less before the trauma then the acceptance begins to develop in them and they start getting this idea that life is more meaningful than what they think about it so the element of spirituality is the sense that we are not alone it develops in them and they feel that there is someone who is protecting them so the spiritual development is a very important development after the post-traumatic growth thank you