Historical Trauma Case Study

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• Historical trauma is described to be an experience or event that have caused a generation or individual harm. • Historical oppression focuses specifically on the mistreatment of the groups of people. • Many experience historical trauma response, which is the grief they feel due to the trauma amongst the people • Individual, family and relational, community and cultural, and societal are all part of the risk and protective factors in an ecosystemic framework of historical oppression, resilience, ad transcendence. • Resilience is the ability to adjust even after experiencing difficulties. • Family has been support to many women dealing with IPV, which is considered rape, physical violence, or stalking, in an intimate relationship. • Most …show more content…

• For this study, researcher classified the cultural identity of the participants as traditional, assimilated, bicultural, or marginalized by how they identified with highly with Indian values, highly with white values, ewally with both, or with none. • Cultural identity integration is term used to describe American Indian cultural identity and making use of the meaning. • The purpose of the study was to comprehend how urban Indians put meaning to of their American Indian cultural identity. • The participants for the study must identify as an American Indian adult living or lived in urbans areas and have a strong positive cultural identity. They were also asked 2 questions regarding their culture identity. • Some of the finding were participants knew that they were Indians at a very young age. • They were prideful about their background and were taught that within their communities. • Stage One/the struggle Participants remember feeling lost and different amongst other people. Some wanted to rebel but still had that support group from other Indian people around their teenage …show more content…

Aside from what I was taught in school, and how I loved the colors they incorporate into their traditional attire, and how beautiful I thought the women were, I never understood the struggle and the widespread discrimination that they faced. The feelings of physiological distress that any have felt because of the historical trauma definitely makes me view them in different light. Jack Lawson also mentioned that all Native American are affected by alcoholism because of many cultural loss and problems relating to economic issues. This statement definitely encouraged me to do my own research on how and why these statics is so almost thing group of

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