Life Course Theory’s (Elder, 1998) paradigmatic themes of historical time and place, linked lives, timing of events, and human agency were applied to explore the experiences of Poles who survived the Second World War in Poland and the impact of intergenerational transmission of …
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According to Dale et al. (2108), Black women have lived with bearing the burden of facing both structural inequities (e.g., poverty, racism, access to health care) and psychosocial factors (e.g., violence and abuse) which have resulted in suffering various forms of trauma. Some …
As communities in Bosnia have experienced genocide, the global community is in need of understanding a way toward justice by recognizing crimes against humanity to further gain insight into reconciliation and healing lives across the lifespan. Understanding intergenerational tra…
Political violence and war severely impact mental health and quality of life for all parties involved in conflict (World Health Organization, 2013). Families living in the occupied Palestinian territories have been shown to have alarmingly high rates of Posttraumatic Stress Diso…
Utilizing a heuristic methodology, this thesis examines the relationship of the Self with the Other in terms of the daily struggles of refugee children who are living in a protracted state of political conflict in the Occupied Territories of Gaza and the West Bank. This inquiry …
The purpose of this systematic literature review was to enhance the body of knowledge and increase understanding of the African American male experience in the United States. This doctoral project integrates historical data, clinical research, and theoretical literature to asses…
The purpose of this dissertation is to ascertain, explore, and document how music and dance have been used as a means and method of healing, survival, and celebration in Native American communities. This work does not focus solely upon one Nation or tribe of Native American peop…
This thesis studies how Paraguayan literature about the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870), written in the 1920s, addresses both historical trauma and revisionism by reacting to the prevailing liberal historiography of the war. The thesis analyzes war narratives by three dif…
America created a racist caste system within society to justify chattel slavery, violently locking Black Americans into the subordinate caste. The trauma of the resulting systemic racism created and continues to create intergenerational trauma within the Black American community…
Background: Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become widely known as one of the ‘signature injuries’ of the Iraqi-Afghanistan armed conflicts. The indirect experiencing of trauma from a close family member’s PTSD is conceptualized in the literature as secondary, vicariou…
The Korean American community is a predominantly immigrant population with a long history of historical and cultural trauma, including the continued losses, hardships, and violence endured through the immigration process, that continues to impact the well-being and functioning o…
This research focuses on individuals living with drug usage in a small, western Canadian town amidst the opioid crisis. The opioid crisis has reached a record high in regards to morbidity and mortality. It has become more than a crisis of opioids or narcotics. It is a massive, c…
American Indigenous populations, American Indians (AIs), and Alaska Natives (ANs) have experienced historically traumatic events over the past 500 years, and Native Hawaiians (NHs) over the last 240 years from contact with Europeans, and the subsequent colonization, and appropri…
This study focused on the Cambodian, Laotian, and Hmong communities’ views on mental health and examined the different forms of intergenerational trauma within the community. There is a lack of literature focused on the attitudes and perceptions on mental health and intergenerat…
The goal of this thesis is to investigate the role Mexican mothers play in raising their children and how the border affects their abilities as mothers, looking specifically into the Mother-Daughter relationship, broken down even further into the Mexican mother versus the Mexica…
This work examines the interface between adaptation and acculturation to the experience of colonialism and the etiology of maladaptive parenting skills in a subjugated population, specifically the Latinx diaspora. It explores intergenerational trauma through the lens of the Dark…
The current study explored historical trauma as experienced by the Newar, an indigenous population in Nepal, communicated through idioms of distress. This generic qualitative study used historical trauma theory to answer the research question, “How do Newar adults born and raise…