Recent Publications

• A Japanese-translated book that Drs. Kanako Taku and Ken Shimizu compiled and edited has been published. This is the first translated book of the “Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 2006).”
  • Taku, K., & Shimizu, K. (2013). Shinteki-gaishogo seicho handbook: Taegatai taiken wa hitono kokoroni dou sayousuruka [Japanese translation of Posttraumatic Growth Handbook. L. G. Calhoun & R. G. Tedeschi. (Eds.), 2006, Handbook of Posttraumatic growth: Research and Practice: Mahwah, NJ. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates], Igaku Shoin, Tokyo, Japan.
• Four papers have been recently accepted for peer-reviewed journals to be published.
  • Taku, K. (in press). Relationships among Perceived Psychological Growth, Resilience and Burnout in Physicians. Personality and Individual Differences.
  • Taku, K., & Cann, A. (in press). Cross-national and religious relationships with posttraumatic growth: The role of individual differences and perceptions of the triggering event. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
  • Taku, K., Tedeschi, R. G., & Cann, A. (in press). Relationships of posttraumatic growth and stress responses in bereaved young adults. Journal of Loss and Trauma.
  • Taku, K. (2013). Posttraumatic growth in American and Japanese men: Comparing levels of growth and perceptions of indicators of growth. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 14, 423-432.

For a full list, please see this page.