Historical Trauma Team A
Historical Trauma
BSHS/345 Diversity and Special Populations
Professor Joseph Andrade
Historical Trauma
Historical trauma can be described as the emotional and psychological issues throughout generations of a certain group of people. It can be identified in different categories depending on the type of distress occurring. Historical trauma can often be overlooked, and is mostly described as multigenerational undergone by a specific cultural group. Historical trauma is cumulative and collective. The impact of this type of trauma manifests itself, emotionally and psychologically in members of different cultural groups (Brave Heart, 2011). This type of trauma can easily manifest into historical unresolved grief; disenfranchised grief, and internalized oppression. This discussion will review the different types of unresolved grief and the common groups who have undergone historical trauma and the effects on their cultures. Defining historical trauma is necessary in order to understand the issues that may occur during the manifestation. Historical unresolved grief can be identified as those that have had historical trauma but at the time it was not acknowledged, articulated, or undertaken. This could include the Holocaust Survivors, or murders of other ethnic groups that were in World War II. Disenfranchised grief is the result of those “whose voices were not heard.” These voices have been ignored by the public with lack of perception by generations actively. Some examples would be Native Americans from colonialism, sickness, and other circumstances. Internalized oppression in historical trauma is the cycle of self-hatred. There is locked in hate that is oppressed by traumatized individuals and groups. Emotions that are fueled by hate are: anger and hatred towards certain types of their own groups. For example, when an individual has hate toward the Native Americans for some oppressed reason, despite the fact it is considered his own culture.
Native
BSHS/345 Diversity and Special Populations
Professor Joseph Andrade
Historical Trauma
Historical trauma can be described as the emotional and psychological issues throughout generations of a certain group of people. It can be identified in different categories depending on the type of distress occurring. Historical trauma can often be overlooked, and is mostly described as multigenerational undergone by a specific cultural group. Historical trauma is cumulative and collective. The impact of this type of trauma manifests itself, emotionally and psychologically in members of different cultural groups (Brave Heart, 2011). This type of trauma can easily manifest into historical unresolved grief; disenfranchised grief, and internalized oppression. This discussion will review the different types of unresolved grief and the common groups who have undergone historical trauma and the effects on their cultures. Defining historical trauma is necessary in order to understand the issues that may occur during the manifestation. Historical unresolved grief can be identified as those that have had historical trauma but at the time it was not acknowledged, articulated, or undertaken. This could include the Holocaust Survivors, or murders of other ethnic groups that were in World War II. Disenfranchised grief is the result of those “whose voices were not heard.” These voices have been ignored by the public with lack of perception by generations actively. Some examples would be Native Americans from colonialism, sickness, and other circumstances. Internalized oppression in historical trauma is the cycle of self-hatred. There is locked in hate that is oppressed by traumatized individuals and groups. Emotions that are fueled by hate are: anger and hatred towards certain types of their own groups. For example, when an individual has hate toward the Native Americans for some oppressed reason, despite the fact it is considered his own culture.
Native
References: Brave Heart, M.Y.H. (2011). Welcome to Taking’s historical trauma. Historical Trauma. Retrieved from http://historicaltrauma.com