Trauma transgenerational transfer and effects on community wellbeing

Judy Atkinson · Caroline Atkinson

59 citations0/0 files storedCross Connect (Southern Cross University)

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights Child Abuse and Trauma Memory, History, Trauma, Identity

Abstract

OVERVIEW This chapter focuses on how the effects of experiencing trauma are transmitted within and across generations, and how whole communities can be affected by a single experience of trauma by a single member of a community. The chapter introduces the reader to a selection of views and conceptions of trauma, theories of its transgenerational transfer, an explanation of the impact of lived or transferred trauma in the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities, and an overview of dysfunctional community syndrome. It also explores the links between unresolved childhood trauma and participation in violence, sexually inappropriate behaviour, and incarceration as adolescents and adults. The second part of the chapter discusses the challenges associated with working in Indigenous communities; it provides an example of a program that is achieving positive results through education and community empowerment, and an appreciation of the need to embed trauma-recovery in all facets of service provision.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 59 citations exist upstream.

References

1995Native American postcolonial psychology 1998International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma 2004Conceptualizing and Measuring Historical Trauma Among American Indian People 2006Principles of Trauma Therapy: A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment 2002Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines: The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia 2006A Conceptual Model of Historical Trauma: Implications for Public Health Practice and Research 1998Healing the American Indian Soul Wound 1993Intergenerational transmission of child abuse: rates, research, and clinical implications

Cited by

2019Parenting after a history of childhood maltreatment: A scoping review and map of evidence in the perinatal period 2013Establishing the United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the Minimum Standard for All Forensic Practice with Australian Indigenous Peoples 2017The Case for Urgency: Advocating for Indigenous voice in education 2013Reframing spaces by building relationships: Community collaborative participatory action research with Aboriginal mothers in prison

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.