Trauma Flashcards
Type 1
Single episode event
Type II
Repetitive, ongoing traumas that are prolonged (last longer than a few moments or a few hours)
Type III
Traumas that began historically with first contact and extends to include different time periods (intergenerational trauma)
1st gen
Directly affected (survivors0
2nd gen
Survivors, children, families
3rd Gen
Survivors, children, children’s children, community
4th Gen
Families, community, nation, larger society, country
Intergenerational trauma
Trauma passed onto generations
Blood memory
In indigenous thought, occurrence of an experience of those that have gone before us being embedded in ones physical and psychological being
Collection of memories one is born with
How do cultural wounds multiply
Impact not only the individual but the collective community
What do cultural wounds need
Culture as medicine
Cultural buffers to health risks, drugs, alcohol and mental health
Identity attitude
Enculturation
Spiritual coping
Traditional health practices
Cultural continuity
Culture as something that is enduring or continuously linked through processes of historical transformation with an identifiable past of tradition
Healing through cultural continuity has historically included
Ceremony, connecting to animal, plan, spirit world
Craft making
Dancing
Land relatedness
Language
Laughter
Painting
Singing
Storytelling
Indigenous perspective of sharing
“Gifting” others, with intent to celebrate all that has been given to the sharer
