Culture, Identity, and Trauma
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Companion Slides
How culture shapes the experience and expression of trauma — and our response to it.
Key Concepts
- Culture shapes what counts as traumatic and how distress is expressed
- Collectivist vs. individualist frameworks for healing
- Historical and intergenerational trauma: slavery, colonization, displacement
- Cultural humility: approaching without assumptions
- The danger of imposing Western trauma models universally
Part of
Module 2: How Trauma Shows Up
Recognizing trauma responses in behavior, across ages, in the body, and through a cultural lens.