In this interactive webinar, Dr. Richard G. Tedeschi a world renowned expert on the subject of post-traumatic growth will explain and define the concept and relate it to the potential work that coaches can do with clients who have experienced trauma. Dr. Tedeschi will describe the five domains of growth people report in the aftermath of traumatic events and the relationship of Posttraumatic Growth to PTSD and other trauma reactions.  

The deep work of core belief reconstruction is similar across various kinds of traumas, and this presentation is therefore applicable to work with people who have experienced a wide variety of circumstances, including illness, relationship betrayal, financial losses, bereavement, and disaster. Coaches can serve in the role of "expert companions" to those who have experienced trauma. In this presentation, this approach to relating will be described as crucial to the process of core belief reconstruction and the development of posttraumatic growth with missions of service.

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Richard Tedeschi, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus in the Department of  Psychological Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Distinguished Chair of the Boulder Crest Institute for Posttraumatic Growth,in Bluemont, Virginia, where he has been one of the developers of  programs based on posttraumatic growth principles to help combat veterans and first responders. 

He has published nine books including, Posttraumatic Growth: Theory, Research, and Applications, and numerous professional articles on trauma, bereavement, and on posttraumatic growth, a term he coined and introduced to the psychological literature while at UNC Charlotte. He was a member of the Graduate Faculty there, and taught several undergraduate and graduate courses. These included Professional Ethics, Introduction to Psychological Treatment, Psychology of Personality, and Positive Psychology. He was chair of many Masters theses and Doctoral dissertation committees. He served as the Coordinator of the Masters program in Clinical/Community Psychology for many years.

Dr. Tedeschi serves as a consultant to the American Psychological Association on trauma and resilience, and is a Fellow of the Division of Trauma Psychology and the Division of Psychotherapy. He is also a member of the Division of Military Psychology and the Division of Independent Practice. He is a Past President of the North Carolina Psychological Association.