Exam 27: Intergenerational Trauma and Indigenous People Hilary Weaver

What are two critical factors of recovery?

What type of trauma is best conceptualized in sequential stages?

What factors perpetuate trauma?

When working with Indigenous populations, any common life and background experiences between client and practitioner may be presumed as a basis for a connection and potential for transference and countertransference.

When does intergenerational trauma occur?

One role of social workers with this population is to interrupt the cycle of intergenerational trauma.

What factor contributed to the devastation experienced by Indigenous peoples in America for which there was no solution?

Native American cultures emphasize a collective sense of identity prioritizing the group over the individual.

Large-scale trauma includes traumatic events linked to social, biological, and spiritual indicators of well-being.

What type of trauma typically occurs in populations that experience a power disadvantage and subsequent oppression?

Under the he Dawes Act of 1887, the U.S. conducted a policy of dividing Native lands and distributing them to individuals.

What Act created the federal trusteeship over Native people and resulted in the loss of Native land holdings?

Much of what Native Americans experienced was trauma, but the use of trauma-informed care with this population is unethical in social work practice because it will retraumatize this disenfranchised population.

Describe intergenerational and large-scale trauma, and explain the shift in the role of social workers in helping this population.

Assessment for historical trauma should include a family history to identify how current problems fit with intergenerational patterns.

Cumulative intergenerational stress may trigger a host of psychosocial and biological disorders.

Empowerment practice can serve as a framework for interventions for intergenerational trauma.

What event served as a capstone summarizing many losses experienced by the Lakota and other indigenous peoples?

What are two aspects of client narratives that, when told from an Indigenous perspective, promote healing?

What are the five basic principles of trauma-informed services?