Themes: Family and Youth, Human Services

This case study reflects the cycle of historical and generational trauma and how it is particularly devastating to oppressed ethnic groups. It also demonstrates the potential role for helping professions such as social workers to implement cultural identity and traditions to interrupt the cycle. The sessions are created to identify, explain, analyze historical and generational trauma, and discuss how knowledge gained can help develop new perspectives and approaches to dealing with the manifestations of historical trauma.

Instructions:

1. Read the following case study:

Case Study – Historical and Generational  Trauma.doc

2 .Answer the following questions:

1. Explain what the author means by the title of the case.
2. Analyze the consequences of the systematic removal of Native children to boarding school and the impact it has on their behavior and family dynamics
3. Based on the three types of trauma – Acute, Chronic and Complex – choose which one occurred here and justify it.
4. Describe the ways historical and generational trauma occur in this case.
5. Determine how prohibiting traditional spirituality and participation in ceremonies affect healing from trauma.
6. As a Human Services professional you have chosen from your previous assignment, determine what interventions could you use to restore resiliency in people like these who are impacted by historical and generational trauma and solutions to prevent these social/societal problems from reoccurring                                             

well organized paragraphs totaling 3 pages in length. To obtain full credit for this assignment, you must write well-constructed paragraphs that addressed all the six questions above with relevant information from the case study demonstrating a clear understanding . Use specific examples from the case study to support your responses.