Historical Trauma Among Urban American Indians: Impact on Substance Abuse and Family Cohesion.
Historical trauma theory suggests that many American Indians are still affected by the cultural losses and injustices endured by previous generations. The current study examines historical trauma in an urban American Indian sample using validated measures of historical loss and associated symptoms (...
| Published in: | Journal of Loss & Trauma Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 319 - 337 |
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