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The experience of collective trauma in Australian indigenous communities

Krieg, Anthea·2009·Australasian Psychiatry
DOI 10.1080/10398560902948621
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OBJECTIVE: The concept of collective trauma has predominantly been applied in the context of natural and human disasters. This paper seeks to explore whether collective trauma offers a respectful way in which to explore and respond to mental health and wellbeing issues for Aboriginal families and communities. METHOD: A review of the international literature was undertaken in order to determine the elements of collective and mass trauma studies which may have relevance for Indigenous communities in Australia. RESULTS: Findings support the proposition that the patterns of human responses to disasters, particularly in protracted traumas such as war-zones, shows strong parallels to the contemporary patterns of experience and responses articulated by Aboriginal people affected by colonization and its sequelae in Australia. CONCLUSION: Adopting evidence-informed principles of family and community healing developed internationally in disaster situations may provide helpful ways of conceptualizing and responding in a coordinated way to mental health and wellbeing issues for Indigenous people within Australia.

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  • Empirical evidence indicating that cultural trauma impacts health is distributed across different constructs (e.g., collective vs. historical vs. intergenerational trauma), each describing separate aspects of the trauma experience often specific to different cultural groups.

    “Second, the empirical evidence indicating that cultural trauma impacts health (Hartmann and Gone, 2014; Krieg, 2009; Whitbeck et al., 2004) is distributed across different constructs (e.g., collective vs. historical vs. intergenerational trauma), each describing separate aspects of the trauma experience that are often specific to different cultural groups (Sotero, 2006).”

    From Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities (2022) · cites this paper as Krieg, 2009

  • Cultural trauma occurs both through physical dislocation from native lands via force, genocide, or disease, and through discriminatory policies that strip groups of existing cultural lands while blocking access to future lands and other flexible resources.

    “Within the literature, this cultural trauma appears to occur both through physical dislocation from native lands via force, genocide, or disease (Evans-Campbell, 2008; Krieg, 2009), or discriminatory policies that strip groups of existing cultural lands (i.e., material resources) while blocking access to future lands and other flexible resources (Fullilove, 2001; Williams and Collins, 2016).”

    From Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities (2022) · cites this paper as Krieg, 2009

  • Current clinical definitions of trauma do not match the reported trauma experiences of many minority groups, which include ongoing persecution, discrimination, and retraumatization.

    “First, current clinical definitions of trauma do not match the reported trauma experiences of many minority groups (Andermahr, 2015; Evans-Campbell, 2008; Krieg, 2009), which include ongoing persecution, discrimination, and retraumatization (Craps, 2013; Krieg, 2009).”

    From Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities (2022) · cites this paper as Krieg, 2009

  • Extensive research has highlighted several mechanisms through which intergenerational trauma transmission may affect health disparities including impaired parenting and parental modeling of maladaptive post-traumatic behavioral patterns, secondary traumatization through transmission of trauma narratives to offspring, and potential epigenetic changes that increase susceptibility to mental and物理al?

    “Extensive research has highlighted several mechanisms through which intergenerational trauma transmission may affect health disparities including impaired parenting and parental modeling of maladaptive post-traumatic behavioral patterns (Auerhahn and Laub, 1998; Brave Heart, 2003; Krieg, 2009), secondary traumatization through transmission of trauma narratives to offspring (Brave Heart et al., 201”

    From Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities (2022) · cites this paper as Krieg, 2009

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Authors
Krieg, A.
Affiliations
SA Health (AU)
Corresponding author
Krieg, Anthea
Venue
Australasian Psychiatry
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2009-01-01
Volume
17
Issue
1_suppl
Pages
S28-S32
ISSN
  • 1039-8562 (ISSN-L)
  • 1440-1665
DOI
10.1080/10398560902948621
OpenAlex
W2157275512
Cited by
77
References
20
Citations by year
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FWCI
2.40
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Australasian Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Migration, Health and Trauma
Keywords
collective trauma, mass trauma, Aboriginal Australians, Indigenous mental health, well-being, colonization, disaster response, indigenous peoples
MeSH terms
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Australia, Health Status, Humans, Mental Health, Prejudice, Residence Characteristics, Social Environment, Wounds and Injuries

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