PTSD, Resilience, and Everything In Between: Mapping the Heterogeneity Of Potential Trauma

Psychological trauma is typically conceptualized as the presence or absence of PTSD. Bonanno discusses how this binary approach fails to capture the true heterogeneity of trauma reactions. He then describes research that maps heterogeneity as trajectories of resilience, chronicity, and other patterns, as well as the factors that predict these patterns.