MIND MATTERS
The emotional, psychological, and social well-being that influences how a person thinks, feels, and behaves.
What is mental health?
The psychologist and author who developed the concept of Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome.
Who is Dr. Joy DeGruy?
The movement of people from one geographical location to another, either temporarily or permanently.
What is migration?
A person's sense of belonging to and identifying with a particular culture, including its values, traditions, language, and practices.
What is cultural identity?
The ability to adapt, recover, and continue functioning despite adversity or significant challenges.
What is resilience?
Trauma whose effects can be transmitted from one generation to another through family experiences, behaviors, beliefs, and social conditions.
What is intergenerational trauma?
he historical institution whose long-term psychological and social effects are central to Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome.
What is slavery?
Economic opportunity, employment, education, and improved living conditions are examples of these factors that can encourage people to leave one location for another.
What are pull factors?
The process of accepting negative stereotypes or prejudices about one's own racial or cultural group.
What is internalized oppression?
Family connections, community, cultural identity, social support, and access to healthcare can serve as these for migrants experiencing psychological challenges.
What are protective factors?
Anxiety, depression, loneliness, culture shock, and acculturative stress are examples of these challenges that migrants may experience.
What are mental health challenges?
The system of racial and social hierarchy created under colonial rule that often positioned European culture, values, and physical characteristics as superior to African ones.
What is colonial racial hierarchy?
Conflict, persecution, poverty, natural disasters, and political instability are examples of these circumstances that can force people to leave their homes.
What are push factors?
The process through which individuals adopt elements of another culture while potentially maintaining aspects of their original cultural identity.
What is acculturation?
Maintaining strong family relationships, cultural traditions, and community connections can provide migrants with this important psychological resource during periods of adjustment.
What is social support?
The process through which the psychological, behavioral, and social effects of historical trauma can continue across generations.
What is intergenerational transmission?
Centuries of enslavement, racial oppression, dehumanization, and discrimination are examples of historical experiences that help explain this.
What is historical trauma?
Unlike voluntary migration, this type of migration occurs when people are compelled to leave their homes because of conflict, persecution, disaster, or other circumstances.
What is forced migration?
Colonial standards that position European features, lighter skin, and Eurocentric hair textures as more desirable can contribute to this form of prejudice based on skin tone.
What is colorism?
Family, cultural traditions, community support, and collective identity can provide these when communities are addressing historical trauma.
What are sources of healing and resilience?
The psychological stress that can occur when individuals attempt to adapt to a new cultural environment.
What is acculturative stress?
The continued presence of racial stereotypes, socioeconomic inequalities, internalized negative beliefs, and other consequences long after slavery has ended.
What is the legacy of historical and intergenerational trauma?
The psychological experience that can occur when migrants are separated from familiar people, places, routines, and cultural environments, potentially creating feelings of grief, loss, and uncertainty.
What is migration-related loss and displacement?
A Caribbean migrant rejects aspects of their Jamaican identity because they believe the dominant culture is more sophisticated. This experience can be understood through these two concepts.
What are acculturation and internalized oppression?
Reconnecting Caribbean youth with African and Caribbean history, cultural traditions, language, family networks, and community support demonstrates this approach to addressing historical trauma.
What are culturally grounded resilience and collective healing?