The Routledge Series in Posttraumatic Growth Military and First Responders

Trauma, Resilience, and Posttraumatic Growth in Frontline Personnel

Jane Shakespeare-Finch Ph.D.
Paul J. Scully
Dagmar Breunig Ph.D.
November 18, 2025
Routledge

Trauma, Resilience, and Posttraumatic Growth in Frontline Personnel examines the history, context, nature, and complexity of working in front-line services. Chapters provide a detailed overview of specific mental health models that are applicable both on a day-to-day basis and to disaster and major event response.

The book also details elements of mental health responses that have been proven to facilitate coping, minimize risk, and promote both resilience and posttraumatic growth. These strategies include, but are not limited to, peer support programs, mental health education, and psychological first aid. Each chapter incorporates research on PTSD, anxiety, and depression as well as research relating to posttraumatic growth, resilience, connectedness, and belongingness.

Trauma, Resilience, and Posttraumatic Growth in Frontline Personnel is a vital guide for those who provide care to trauma survivors as well as for researchers and scholars.

Available for purchase here.

Internationally known researcher Jane Shakespeare-Finch has teamed up with an extensive range of interdisciplinary colleagues to produce this important collection. This is a beautifully organized book that follows the journeys of emergency first responders to those who remain involved long after the immediate situation averts, and it combines personal vignettes with rigorous reviews of the literature. It will serve as a welcome resource to students, academics, and practitioners alike.

Professor Cheryl Regehr, vice president and provost, University of Toronto

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Jane Shakespeare-Finch Ph.D.
Paul J. Scully
Dagmar Breunig Ph.D.
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