International handbook of multigenerational legacies of trauma

The Complexity of Determining Refugeehood: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Decision-making Process of the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board

“…In Canada, most Board Members listen to two claimants' stories each day of the week, for three consecutive weeks, and then have a week without hearings to write their decisions. Studies of war-time trauma in the wake of World War II and the Vietnam War brought to light the fact that war does not only affect those who experience it directly, but also has repercussions on the close social relationships and networks that a person may be involved in (Danieli 1998;Rousseau 1998). The indirect transfer of trauma through verbal accounts has been particularly well documented in therapists who have treated traumatized patients and is known as 'vicarious traumatization' (Watson 1995).…”

A Dissertation on African American Male Youth Violence: "Trying to Kill the Part of You that Isn’t Loved"

“…For example, in the case of Jamal he was repeatedly exposed to violence, interacted with adults with substance abuse and criminal justice involvement, and was assaulted and emotionally shut off from a mother he admired; consequently he did anything to secure her attention, even if it was negative. This neglectful, emotionally abusive and unsupportive home situation presents trauma to the youngster; if we have learned anything from Buchanan, and Simons and Johnson (both cited in Danieli, 1998), maltreatment and domestic violence and trauma are not strangers to one another. So how does a youngster like Jamal cope with these issues, and how can we understand the sociocultural aspects of coping with violence from the standpoint of the theories of human behavior described above?…”

“…Yet we know from research conducted on other groups that experienced oppression and trauma (Danieli, 1998) that survivor syndromes exist and are pervasive in the human development of second and third generation offspring. The characteristics o f the survivor syndrome include: stress, self doubt, problems with aggression, and a number of psychological and interpersonal relationship problems with family members and others.…”

Playing the Part: Hungarian Boy Scouts and the Performance of Trauma in Interwar Hungary

“…As the feminist theorist and psychiatric practitioner Bonnie Burstow argues, tying trauma to a particular event or set of events per se is inadequate (Burstow 2003; see also Danieli 1998). In order to understand the nature and function of trauma, she argues, we have to first understand and appreciate the complicated context within which a discrete traumatic event (like Trianon) occurs.…”