Matthew Brandon was six years old when he made his way into Chris and Shannon Gardiner's life. The boy was non-verbal and had complex needs, and he had already been moved around a lot in the foster ...

Intergenerational and historical trauma courses through the offspring in a family, surfacing in descendants throughout decades, until it is addressed and healing is achieved. The “Woman to Woman ...

Marin Denning joined Lake Effect's Joy Powers to discuss intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities ahead of his talk at UWM's Trauma in Our Community Conference. On Tuesday, UW-Milwaukee’s ...

Intergenerational trauma occurs when multiple generations of a family feel the effects of past traumatic events. These effects can be emotional or physical. Traumatic events can influence a person’s ...

The Vicarious Trauma Training Certificate Program is a comprehensive framework for understanding and managing the impact of trauma exposure in professional roles. The curriculum is designed to cover ...

A local nonprofit is on a mission to help teens and their families heal from past trauma and live full lives. Soaring Eagles Youth and Family Services is a local organization that's working to help ...

After 13 years of working as a psychiatrist, first in northern California, and later New Zealand, I moved to Kayenta, a small community in a remote part of the Navajo Nation in Northern Arizona.

This story was produced as part of the NEW (Northeast Wisconsin) News Lab, a consortium of six news outlets covering northeastern Wisconsin. It is republished with the permission of The Press Times ...

Trauma creates overwhelming feelings of vulnerability and helplessness that cannot be cognitively processed into a meaningful and integrated narrative (Horowitz, 1982; Bromberg, 1998).