Deck 27: Intergenerational Trauma and Indigenous People Hilary Weaver

Question 1

When does intergenerational trauma occur?

A) Following elections
B) During selection of unprecedented persons for leadership
C) Following a recession
D) Following large-scale losses

Answer 1

Following large-scale losses

Question 2

What type of trauma typically occurs in populations that experience a power disadvantage and subsequent oppression?

A) Sequential trauma
B) Small-scale trauma
C) Large-scale trauma
D) Generational trauma

Answer 2

Large-scale trauma

Question 3

What are two critical factors of recovery?

A) Remembering and mourning
B) Acknowledgment and acceptance
C) Recounting and re-living
D) Counseling and social support

Answer 3

Remembering and mourning

Question 4

What type of trauma is best conceptualized in sequential stages?

A) Intergenerational trauma
B) Generational trauma
C) Large-scale trauma
D) Historical trauma

Question 5

What factors perpetuate trauma?

A) Retelling stories and reliving the past
B) Physical and psychological expressions of violence
C) Constant war and violence
D) Miniature-scale replication of large violence

Question 6

What factor contributed to the devastation experienced by Indigenous peoples in America for which there was no solution?

A) New diseases
B) Lack of resources
C) Natural disasters
D) Genocide

Question 7

What are the assimilationist social policies designed to eliminate Indigenous cultures, languages, and spirituality?

A) Dawes Act of 1887
B) Contemporary expressions of violence
C) Intergenerational trauma
D) Cultural genocide

Question 8

What Act created the federal trusteeship over Native people and resulted in the loss of Native land holdings?

A) Native American Land Holdings Act
B) Dawes Act
C) Cultural Genocide Act
D) Indigenous Relegation Act

Question 9

What event served as a capstone summarizing many losses experienced by the Lakota and other indigenous peoples?

A) Wounded Knee Massacre
B) Dawes Act
C) Cultural Genocide Act
D) Lakota Massacre

Question 10

Native American cultures emphasize a collective sense of identity prioritizing the group over the individual.

Question 11

Broken treaties and erosion of promises by the European settlers added to the traumatic experiences of Native Americans.

Question 12

Under the he Dawes Act of 1887, the U.S. conducted a policy of dividing Native lands and distributing them to individuals.

Question 13

Large-scale trauma includes traumatic events linked to social, biological, and spiritual indicators of well-being.

Question 14

Cumulative intergenerational stress may trigger a host of psychosocial and biological disorders.

Question 15

Assessment for historical trauma should include a family history to identify how current problems fit with intergenerational patterns.

Question 16

Empowerment practice can serve as a framework for interventions for intergenerational trauma.

Question 17

When working with Indigenous populations, any common life and background experiences between client and practitioner may be presumed as a basis for a connection and potential for transference and countertransference.

Question 18

Much of what Native Americans experienced was trauma, but the use of trauma-informed care with this population is unethical in social work practice because it will retraumatize this disenfranchised population.

Question 19

One role of social workers with this population is to interrupt the cycle of intergenerational trauma.

Question 20

What are two aspects of client narratives that, when told from an Indigenous perspective, promote healing?

Question 21

What are the five basic principles of trauma-informed services?

Question 22

Describe intergenerational and large-scale trauma, and explain the shift in the role of social workers in helping this population.