Book contents
- Working with Refugee Families
- Working with Refugee Families
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Refugee Family Relationships
- Chapter 1 The Role of Family Functioning in Refugee Child and Adult Mental Health
- Chapter 2 Transgenerational Trauma Transmission in Refugee Families
- Chapter 3 Pre- and Post-migration Trauma and Adversity
- Chapter 4 Cultural Belonging and Political Mobilization in Refugee Families
- Chapter 5 Forced Separation, Ruptured Kinship and Transnational Family
- Chapter 6 Family Relationships and Intra-family Expectations in Unaccompanied Young Refugees
- Part II Trauma Care for Refugee Families
- Part III Intersectoral Psychosocial Interventions in Working with Refugee Families
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Chapter 2 - Transgenerational Trauma Transmission in Refugee Families
The Role of Traumatic Suffering, Attachment Representations, and Parental Caregiving
from Part I - Refugee Family Relationships
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2020
- Working with Refugee Families
- Working with Refugee Families
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Refugee Family Relationships
- Chapter 1 The Role of Family Functioning in Refugee Child and Adult Mental Health
- Chapter 2 Transgenerational Trauma Transmission in Refugee Families
- Chapter 3 Pre- and Post-migration Trauma and Adversity
- Chapter 4 Cultural Belonging and Political Mobilization in Refugee Families
- Chapter 5 Forced Separation, Ruptured Kinship and Transnational Family
- Chapter 6 Family Relationships and Intra-family Expectations in Unaccompanied Young Refugees
- Part II Trauma Care for Refugee Families
- Part III Intersectoral Psychosocial Interventions in Working with Refugee Families
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
The transgenerational transmission of refugee trauma refers to the phenomenon in which children are transformed and sometimes affected by their parents’ traumatic experiences from the past and by their parents’ current posttraumatic symptoms. The present chapter aims to explore the interactions between parental traumatization, attachment representations, and caregiving behavior in understanding processes of transgenerational trauma transmission in refugee families. Theoretical and empirical evidence is presented in order to understand the overt and the subtle behavioral and emotional disruptions within the parent-child dyad brought on by or associated with a parental trauma history and how this may affect children’s psychosocial wellbeing and mental health. Two case vignettes are presented in order to illustrate the potentially adverse consequences of parental unresolved loss, ongoing refugee trauma, and subsequent disrupted caregiving. Finally, the clinical implications of the presented findings are discussed.
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- Working with Refugee FamiliesTrauma and Exile in Family Relationships, pp. 36 - 49Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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