This article is a review of the literature on intergenerational transmission of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from fathers to sons in families of war veterans. The review addresses several questions: (1) Which fathers have a greater tendency to transmit their distress to their offspring? (2) What is transmitted from father to child? (3) How is […]
A new social work program is being set up in Indigenous communities to help Indigenous people deal with trauma. The University of Toronto is sponsoring the program. The idea to hold the program in the communities of students resulted from many people not being able to leave for 2 years to get a master’s degree. […]
This books is based on more than 100 autobiographical accounts from Native American students who attended government or mission run boarding schools. At these schools children were forced to abandon their rich heritage and culture for a foreign system that sought to assimilate them into mainstream, Christian society. This book is filled with stories of […]
Indigenous communities in the United States and Australia are united in a common experience: in the late 19th and early 20th century children were forcibly removed from their homes and communities and sent to boarding schools away from all they knew. Despite the school’s benevolent intentions, students suffered severe trauma, particularly at the hands of […]
This book explores the history of Native American education from the early 20th century to contemporary times while stressing that diversity is a source of strength in education. The text provides the perspectives of Native Americans on issues of educational self-determination, rebukes stereotypes, makes a compelling case that the preservation of Indigenous languages is a […]
Trauma has been garnering more and more attention over the past few years, with the rampant climb of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and the understanding of what can cause it. Intergenerational trauma among American Indians is an area of study that has just started to generate attention from communities inside Indian country, academia and the medical […]
The purpose of this research is to understand the relationship of health risk behavior and disease in adulthood to the breadth of exposure to childhood emotional, physical, or sexual abuse and household dysfunction during childhood. This has not been previously described. The results found a strong graded relationship between the breadth of exposure to abuse […]
This paper begins with a discussion of the broader aspects of historical trauma among Alaska’s indigenous people, beginning in the late 1880s and continuing into most of the 1900s. Topics include: the introduction of Western illnesses and diseases, Western education (boarding schools) and forced Western Christianity. However the main focus of this paper is to […]
This thesis addresses a major gap in scholarship addressing Native American offreservation boarding schools in the United States, which to date has focused primarily on cultural loss and student experiences. Detailing off-reservation boarding schools’ institutional attacks on students’ language, family relations, and culture is without a doubt critical, but this thesis explores a different kind […]
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions are official, temporary bodies used for communities to come to terms with past violence, promote education and awareness of historic trauma, and to provide recognition and closure for victims and successors. By bringing past issues to light, such commissions promote healing and allow these communities to move forward. Although the Commission […]
