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In her current research program, she has incorporated fear conditioning paradigms using psychophysiology to assess whether fear learning processes may help to explain the intergenerational transmission of trauma and whether a resiliency intervention can improve extinction learning in those with a history of childhood interpersonal trauma.
Transgenerational trauma is the psychological and physiological effects that the trauma experienced by people has on subsequent generations in that group. The primary mode of transmission is the shared family environment of the infant causing psychological, behavioral and social changes in the individual.
This is known as transgenerational trauma or intergenerational trauma, and can manifest in parenting behaviors as well as epigenetically. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Exposure to childhood trauma, along with environmental stress, can also cause alterations in genes and gene expressions.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing is a 2005 theoretical work by Joy DeGruy Leary. [1] The book argues that the experience of slavery in the United States and the continued discrimination and oppression endured by African Americans creates intergenerational psychological trauma, leading to a psychological and behavioral syndrome common among present ...
[1] [2] From the Ashes is considered one of the "most notable" 100 books Simon and Schuster U.S and all its 31 international imprints has published between 1924-2024, [3] Thistle is a PhD candidate in the history program at York University, where he is working on theories of intergenerational, historic trauma, and survivance of road allowance ...
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Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) impacts many individuals in the mental health field; as of 2013, the prevalence rates for STS amongst different professions is as follows: 15.2% among social workers, 16.3% in oncology staff, 19% in substance abuse counselors, 32.8% in emergency nurses, 34% in child protective services workers, and 39% in juvenile justice education workers. [2]
Intergenerational shared sites are programs in which children, youth and older adults participate in ongoing services and/or programming concurrently at the same site, and where participants interact during regularly scheduled planned intergenerational activities, as well as through informal encounters.