Summit
2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2025
Meaning Making in Professional Caregivers Following Care-Related Stress and Trauma
- Amber Efthemiou
Eastern Michigan University - Michael Goldsmith
Behavioral Care Solutions - Eamonn Arble
Eastern Michigan University
Abstract
The current study explores stressful and potentially traumatic experiences of professional caregivers through a meaning making framework. We anticipate that meaning violations after care-related stressful or potentially traumatic events will predict greater stress and meaning making in the forms of positive reappraisal, growth, and deliberate rumination will moderate this relationship.
Stress