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Intergenerational trauma refers to the apparent transmission of trauma between generations of a family. People who experienced adverse childhood experiences growing up, or who survived historical ...

Intergenerational trauma is a theory that trauma experienced by one person in a family can be passed down to future generations. Sometimes called historical trauma or multigenerational trauma, it can ...

Marin Denning joined Lake Effect's Joy Powers to discuss intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities ahead of his talk at UWM's Trauma in Our Community Conference. On Tuesday, UW-Milwaukee’s ...

May marks Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. To mark the importance of this month and how it intersects our work at the ACLU, we are bringing you this ...

Syed Mujtaba is a child rights practitioner and public health lawyer, specialising in juvenile justice and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS). With a background in public health law, he ...

Trauma is an experience so harrowing that it can alter our gene expression — and in some cases, these changes can be passed down to future generations. But if the traumas experienced by our parents, ...

Can you inherit trauma from your family members? Yes. If unhealed and unaddressed, traumatic wounds can be unintentionally passed on, says Yael Danieli, PhD, the founder and executive director of the ...

Awareness of the historical harm that has been caused to Black people globally is necessary to understand how to support and advocate for the Black community. Black History Month is a time of year ...

I am a second-generation Vietnamese immigrant, a child of refugees from the Vietnam War who lives in the heart of Little Saigon, California. My hometown has one of the highest concentrations of ...

The idea that trauma can be passed down from generation to generation is a new-ish one. The concept of intergenerational trauma was first recognised around 1966, as psychologists began to study ...