Intergenerational Trauma
What is intergenerational trauma?
Intergenerational trauma is trauma suffered by one generation that is passed on to subsequent generations.
What is Historical Trauma?
Historical trauma is multigenerational trauma experienced by a specific cultural, racial or ethnic group. It is related to major events that oppressed a particular group of people because of their status as oppressed, such as slavery, the Holocaust, forced migration, and the violent colonization of Native Americans.
A host of person, event and environmental factors may influence individual posttraumatic response and recovery --> True or False
True
Culturally-responsive teaching engages students in self-awareness activities that lead to reflection on cultural assumptions.
What is facilitates critical reflection?
The environment or situation that is relevant to the beliefs, values, and practices of the culture under study
What is Cultural Context?
How can intergenerational trauma be passed down?
It can be passed down from environmental, genetic, and social factors.
What is one component of Historical Trauma that can increase the impact of intergenerational trauma?
Compounding familial or intergenerational trauma, historical trauma often involves the additional challenge of a damaged cultural identity.
What is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress?
Resiliency
Culturally responsive methods such as inter-cultural communication stimulate respect for the needs of all learners and allow every voice to be heard.
What is demands respect for others?
Allowing own judgments, biases, and assumptions on others.
What is Don't do that, or What is not acceptable.
True or False. Trauma in early childhood can cause changes in a person's DNA gene expression that can then be passed on to the person's children.
True. Studies have found altered gene expression following a significant trauma that then showed up in the next generation of children. Studies involving mice indicate that the changes in genes can be passed on for 5 generations.
How have Black Americans been affected by Historical Trauma?
Black Americans experienced generations of slavery, segregation, and institutionalized racism that has contributed to physical, psychological, and spiritual trauma wounding over the lifespan and across generations, emanating from massive group trauma experience.
True or False. A person is either born with the the ability to overcome traumatic events in their life or they are not. Resiliency is a trait you either have or do not have.
False. Resiliency can be developed with protective factors that involve things others can do to provide support but also things individuals can do for themselves once they understand what increases resilience factors.
Effective communication with others who are linguistically and culturally different includes the use of techniques like active listening, elaboration, paraphrasing, and restatement.
What is the use of intercultural communication skills?
Physical appearance, Facial expressions, Proxemics, and Gestures are all examples of what?
What are non verbal cues.
True or False. Parents who had severe trauma, stresses in childhood more likely to have kids with behavioral health concerns.
True. Research indicates that parents who experienced past trauma are four times more likely to have children with behavioral, emotional, and social challenges.
True or False. If a person has never personally experienced a trauma, they cannot be psychologically affected by another person's experiences.
False. Discrimination and Racism are traumatic experiences that can cause similar symptoms to PTSD, as well as depression and anxiety.
Exposure to discrimination, either directly or indirectly, can trigger racial trauma. Indirectly can include witnessing discrimination against a member of a particular group in person or in the media.
True or False. Since Trauma can be passed down genetically to other generations, there is no way to heal from trauma and the next generation of children will continue to have problems related to trauma responses.
False. Understanding how and why we react and respond to situations helps to develop insight. When we process things and understand them, we can then often find coping mechanisms. When we find coping mechanisms, we can heal, redefine ourselves. and reclaim a part of our life.
How can we begin talking about historical trauma?
Answers will vary.
This word describes the "capacity to imagine oneself in another role within a different cultural context."
What is Empathy.
True or False. Intergenerational trauma always causes an individual to be angry and irritable for no reason.
False. There are a lot of potential symptoms. The symptoms of intergenerational trauma may include hypervigilance, a sense of a shortened future, mistrust, aloofness, high anxiety, depression, panic attacks, nightmares, insomnia, a sensitive fight or flight response, and issues with self-esteem and self-confidence.
True or False A person who identifies with a group of people who have experienced historical trauma most likely has only inherited negative traits as a result of responses to cope with trauma.
False. While it is true that historical and intergenerational trauma can compound trauma responses, there has also been documented evidence of immense resilience. There are numerous individuals in marginalized groups who have risen up even as others tried to keep them down. Resilience can be developed and passed down through skills taught from one generation to the next.
True or False. Therapy isn't helpful for people who have experienced trauma, especially those with generational trauma.
False. Multiple studies have found that between 77% and 100% of patients who attend regular, consistent trauma therapy sessions have seen a reduction in their symptoms. The biggest factor was the relationship with the therapist, the trust level for the therapist, and the willingness to follow suggestions offered by the therapist outside of therapy sessions.
The idea that good communicators realize that political, economic, and historical contexts constrain an individual's competence refers to this approach to intercultural communication.
What is critical approach?
Give an example of cultural context.
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