African Americans

Question 1

What is complex PTSD?

Answer 1

A history of subjection to oppressive control over a prolonged period. (hostages, POW’s, Slavery)

Question 2

What is intergenerational trauma?

Answer 2

When trauma is not resolved in one generation it will be passed to the next.

Question 3

What is historical trauma?

Answer 3

Collective and cumulative emotional wounding across generations.

Question 4

PTSS Post traumatic slave syndrome

Answer 4

consequence of centuries of slavery followed by institutionalized racism and oppression have resulted in multigenerational adaptive behavior, some positive reflecting resilience, and others that are harmful and destructive.

Question 5

What are some of the trauma points?

Answer 5

Hyperghetto "war on drugs" and Prison
Ghetto and Welfare 
Ghetto and Northern Migration 
Post Slavery and Jim Crow
American Chattel Slavery

Question 6

American Chattel Slavery

Answer 6

treated like property or cattle.

Breeding farms to produce more slaves

Question 7

Jim Crow

Answer 7

slavery abolished except for punishment for crime. (prisons overflowing with black inmates)
Jim Crow legally enforced segregation
Lynichings

Question 8

“great migration” and Ghetto

Answer 8

leaving the farm and share cropping

1919 there was the red Summer

Question 9

Ghetto and Welfare

Answer 9

welfare rules - no adult men in the home

decrease in low education industrial manufacturing jobs

Drugs, crime, and family disntegration

Question 10

Hyperghetto and Prison

Answer 10

extreme concentration of poverty and underprivileged groups

Blacks much more likely to go to jail for drugs

Question 11

Trauma Threat response

Answer 11

fight or flight, react, heal

Question 12

Threat response interruption

Answer 12

stop ourselves, ongoing threats (always on guard)

Question 13

Characteristics of Stuck in fight/flight or survival

Answer 13

cannot manage anger , fear, expect to be treated unfairly.

Question 14

Characteristics of Stuck in freeze and dissociation

Answer 14

depressed, cannot defend oneself, withdrawal from relationships

Question 15

Survival Stress management

Answer 15

acting or reacting without thinking about the consequences of our choices. Any means necessary to feel good right now.

Question 16

Characteristics of African-American Men in the crack era

Answer 16

frequent trauma experiences. little to no healthy involvement in mainstream life

Question 17

Characteristics of Hyper-masculinity

Answer 17

poor emotional regulation
high physical pain threshold
dislike women
acting out

Question 18

Characteristics of Self-destructive

Answer 18

indirect suicide
use substances
homicide and glorification ion death
high risk behaviors
suicide by cop

Question 19

African American beliefs

Answer 19

mental illness and trauma is weak

mistrust of health professionals

distrust in legal system

cultural mandate “dirty laundry is washed at home”

Question 20

Other obstacles

Answer 20

institutional racism & opression

Microagressions

Lack of services

Lack of prevention and early intervention

Question 21

Characteristics of Promoting healing through community

Answer 21

encourage participation in mental health. conduct stigma training

Question 22

Characteristics of Compassionate accountability

Answer 22

hold you accountable and I explain why I do this and I give you information on how to change in your life

Question 23

Providers/leadership

Answer 23

develop/support mental health intervention initiatives
educate community
reclaim narrative of resiliency

Question 24

Community leadership

Answer 24

role model willingness to start own healing