Conceptualizing and Measuring Historical Trauma Among American Indian People

By L. Whitbeck, Gary W. Adams, D. Hoyt, Xiaojin Chen. American Journal of Community Psychology, 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Examining the Theory of Historical Trauma among Native Americans (2013, background): “Whitbeck et al. (2004) surveyed Native American adult parents of children for their perceptions of historical events.”
• Trauma transgenerational transfer and effects on community wellbeing (2010, background): “…provides a link between the intergenerational transmission of trauma and ‘dysfunctional community syndrome’ (Duran et al., 1998; Muid, 2006; Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy and Development, 2000; Ralph et al., 2006; Robertson, 2006; Whitbeck et al., 2004).”
• Intergenerational Trauma: Convergence of Multiple Processes among First Nations peoples in Canada (2009, neutral): “…concentration, feeling isolated, and loss of sleep), anger/avoidance (e.g., anger, rage, shame, fear/distrust of white people, and avoidance of places that served as reminders of losses) (Whitbeck et al., 2004a), and greater experiences of discrimination and alcohol abuse (Whitbeck et al., 2004b).”
• Historical Trauma Among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: Concepts, Research, and Clinical Considerations (2011, background): “…massive group trauma and compounding discrimination, racism, and oppression among American Indians (Whitbeck et al. 2002) as well as unresolved grief and loss (Whitbeck et al. 2004a; Brave Heart 1998) are increasingly a focus of attention in the literature, in the field, and in tribal communities.”
• Historical Trauma in American Indian/Native Alaska Communities (2008, background): “Research among diverse populations has shown that children and grandchildren of survivors of traumatic events have high levels of current interest in ancestral trauma (Danieli, 1998; Nagata, 1991; Whitbeck et al., 2004).”
• Discrimination and racial disparities in health: evidence and needed research (2008, positive): “Assessment instruments with good psychometric properties have been developed to assess historical trauma and have found, for example, that some 50% of American Indians think regularly about these historical losses (Whitbeck et al. 2004).”