African Americans

Question 1

What is complex PTSD?

Answer 1

A history of subjection to oppressive control over a prolonged period. (hostages, POW’s, Slavery)

Question 2

What is intergenerational trauma?

Answer 2

When trauma is not resolved in one generation it will be passed to the next.

Question 3

What is historical trauma?

Answer 3

Collective and cumulative emotional wounding across generations.

Question 4

PTSS Post traumatic slave syndrome

Answer 4

consequence of centuries of slavery followed by institutionalized racism and oppression have resulted in multigenerational adaptive behavior, some positive reflecting resilience, and others that are harmful and destructive.

Question 5

What are some of the trauma points?

Answer 5

Hyperghetto "war on drugs" and Prison
Ghetto and Welfare 
Ghetto and Northern Migration 
Post Slavery and Jim Crow
American Chattel Slavery

Question 6

American Chattel Slavery

Answer 6

treated like property or cattle.

Breeding farms to produce more slaves

Question 7

Slave family characteristics

Answer 7

Women act directly on behalf of the family and the community.

Family was matriarchal

Question 8

Jim Crow

Answer 8

13th amendment abolished slavery except as punishment for crime. (one year later prisons overflowing with black inmates.)

Legally enforced segregation

Share cropping kept blacks tied to plantation

Lynchings

Question 9

“great migration” and Ghetto

Answer 9

Leaving the farm and share cropping

Menial and industrial manufacturing jobs, segregated housing and unemployment

1919 red summer- 13 days of racial violence in Chicago

Question 10

Ghetto and Welfare

Answer 10

welfare rules - no adult men in the home

decrease in low education industrial manufacturing jobs

Drugs, crime, and family disntegration

Question 11

Hyperghetto and Prison

Answer 11

extreme concentration of poverty and underprivileged groups

Blacks much more likely to go to jail for drugs

Question 12

Trauma Threat response

Answer 12

fight or flight, react, heal

Question 13

Threat response interruption

Answer 13

dont want to feel out of control: stop ourselves (“get over it”)

Question 14

Characteristics of Stuck in fight/flight or survival

Answer 14

cannot manage anger , fear, expect to be treated unfairly.

Question 15

Characteristics of Stuck in freeze and dissociation

Answer 15

depressed, cannot defend oneself, withdrawal from relationships

Question 16

Survival Stress management

Answer 16

acting or reacting without thinking about the consequences of our choices. Any means necessary to feel good right now.

Question 17

Characteristics of African-American Men in the crack era

Answer 17

frequent trauma experiences. little to no healthy involvement in mainstream life

Question 18

Characteristics of Hyper-masculinity

Answer 18

poor emotional regulation
high physical pain threshold
dislike women
acting out

Question 19

Characteristics of Self-destructive

Answer 19

indirect suicide
use substances
homicide and glorification ion death
high risk behaviors
suicide by cop

Question 20

African American beliefs

Answer 20

mental illness and trauma is weak

mistrust of health professionals

distrust in legal system

cultural mandate “dirty laundry is washed at home”

Question 21

Other obstacles

Answer 21

institutional racism & opression

Microagressions

Lack of services

Lack of prevention and early intervention

Question 22

Characteristics of Promoting healing through community

Answer 22

encourage participation in mental health. conduct stigma training

Question 23

Characteristics of Compassionate accountability

Answer 23

hold you accountable and I explain why I do this and I give you information on how to change in your life

Question 24

Providers/leadership

Answer 24

develop/support mental health intervention initiatives
educate community
reclaim narrative of resiliency

Question 25

Community leadership

Answer 25

role model willingness to start own healing

Question 26

“Healing the village”

Answer 26

addressing historical trauma offers a way of helping the community build from the inside out.