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  • Chapter 2 - Transgenerational Trauma Transmission in Refugee Families

  • from Part I - Refugee Family Relationships
  • Edited by Lucia De Haene, Cécile Rousseau, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book:
    Working with Refugee Families
    Published online:
    21 August 2020
    Print publication:
    06 August 2020, pp 36-49

  • 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.