Rompiendo Cadenas: Breaking Down Intergenerational Trauma in the Latinx Community

Rompiendo Cadenas: Breaking Down Intergenerational Trauma in the Latinx Community

Charmaine Mora-Ozuna, Inés Rodriguez, Marjory Vazquez, Jacqueline Fuentes
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4901-1.ch011
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Abstract

Four first-generation Latinxs use their personal lived experiences and the experiences that they bear witness to as mental health practitioners to provide a critical lens on the decolonization of intergenerational trauma (IGT) in the Latinx community. The authors acknowledge that IGT is rooted in systemic oppression and colonization. They explore the systemic, cultural, interpersonal, and intrapersonal bidirectional impact that these areas have on the well-being of Latinxs. They highlight the inherent resistance and resilience skills that Latinxs have to survive and thrive from trauma. The authors share culturally responsive interventions that reclaim the cultural values of Latinxs to promote holistic healing and end the transmission of trauma.
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Introduction

Intergenerational trauma (IGT) is the transmission of trauma or the effects of trauma from one generation to the next. Symptoms can include things such as depression, anxiety, shame, guilt, and physical health problems (Dass-Brailsford, 2007; Sangalang & Vang, 2017). While the concept of IGT is not new, the term was originally utilized to speak about survivors of the Holocaust. Researchers noticed that children of Holocaust survivors, even if they were not in the Holocaust, were overrepresented with mental and physical health disorders (Cerdena, Rivera, & Spak, 2021). Thus, there was some pathway for trauma to be transmitted across generations.

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