Advancing a Holistic Trauma Framework for Collective Healing From Colonial Abuses

Alvarez, Adam; Farinde-Wu, Abiola

doi:10.1177/23328584221083973

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“…One such alternative lies in a holistic trauma framework created by Alvarez and Farinde-Wu. 29 This framework, accompanied by approaches such as collective healing, de-individualizes the impetus to withstand and adapt to violent conditions of living. Responding specifically to colonial violence, Alvarez and Farinde-Wu’s holistic trauma framework promotes epistemic justice, acknowledging and valuing multiple ways of being and knowing.…”

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Resilience is an Adverse Event: A Critical Discussion of Resilience Theory in Health Services Research and Public Health

Suslovic

Lett

2023

Community Health Equity Research & Policy

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Resilience, the individual trait of being able to persist and cope with, often recurrent, negative experiences, has experienced an explosion in recent years as a topic of study. In this commentary, we critique this surge and problematize the co-occurring development of the “resilience as treatment” paradigm. We show that resilience is an expectation foisted primarily on historically and contemporarily oppressed and excluded populations often in response to systemic and structural forms of discrimination. We argue that this represents a fundamental mismatch of intervention and problem; offering an individual-level solution to a structural toxin. In doing so, we re-contextualize resilience as an adverse event, more analogous to scar tissue than a reliable treatment paradigm. Our essay concludes with offering alternatives to resilience that originate with the holistic trauma and liberation health frameworks. These paradigms are united in that, in contrast to resilience, they emphasize healing from structural violence, rather than adapting to it.

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Section: Alternatives To the Resilience Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience is an Adverse Event: A Critical Discussion of Resilience Theory in Health Services Research and Public Health

Suslovic

Lett

2023

Community Health Equity Research & Policy

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“…It also limits options for how to foment change (Suslovic & Lett, 2024; Sevelius, 2013) because the onus for change is put on those who have been harmed (Suslovic & Lett, 2024). Frameworks that consider broader contexts and environments, like the social–ecological model (Bronfenbrenner, 1977) or those that take into account structural stigma (Hatzenbuehler, 2014), holistic trauma frameworks (Alvarez & Farinde-Wu, 2022), examinations of the functions of gender (Levitt, 2019), relational processes of resilience (Singh & McKleroy, 2011), radical healing (French et al, 2023; Lee et al, 2023; Mosley et al, 2020, 2021), or liberation psychology (Abreu, 2021) support an understanding of the impacts of social contexts. Balancing the strengths of the community, the harms done to the community (and their effects), and situating both of these within the larger sociopolitical context helps avoid both damage-centered and overly positive framings of findings.…”

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Sexual orientation and gender diversity research manuscript writing guide.

Veldhuis,

Cascalheira,

Delucio

et al. 2024

Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

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The American Psychological Association Division 44 Science Committee created this guidance to provide support and assistance to those who conduct sexual orientation and gender diversity (SOGD) research. We aim to: (a) provide guidance to new researchers on publishing SOGD research; (b) advance the field by creating standards for publications; (c) support editors and reviewers in evaluating SOGD research; and (d) ensure that publications prioritize needs of two spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual plus (2SLGBTQIA+) communities. Throughout, we discuss important aspects of SOGD research missing from older guides, including publishing in general journals, research focused on nonbinary identities, decolonizing SOGD research, embedding work in extant SOGD and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color scholarship, attention to language beyond avoiding bias, and interacting with reviewers and editors. We acknowledge that SOGD research is a relatively new and evolving field and that gender and sexual identities are dynamic. Thus, rather than create hard-andfast rules, we provide suggestions for thinking deeply about SOGD research and how to make ethical and informed decisions to ensure the 2SLGBTQIA+ community's needs are at the forefront. We have organized this article to highlight seven publishing considerations, including: (a) theory/framing; (b) methodological Editor's Note. David Pantalone served as the action editor for this article.-MPG.

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Moving beyond vulnerability and focusing on resilience: An intersectional posttraumatic growth model for LGBTQ+ people of color

Obenauf,

Szymanski,

Owens

2024

J Clin Psychol

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In the context of the legacy of deficit‐focused research and application of theoretical models in research on minoritized groups that are underrepresented in the literature, we explored the strengths‐based literature among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people of color to develop a more inclusive and relevant understanding of how posttraumatic growth (PTG) occurs in this population. Our intersectional PTG model is tailored to the experiences of LGBTQ+ people of color that builds upon previous models of PTG, intersectionality theory, and empirical findings of trauma and PTG among LGBTQ+ people of color. Our intersectional PTG model incorporates the unique intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural factors that are unique to this population and contribute to PTG. We challenge the limited scope of Criterion A traumatic events and emphasize empirical findings that support that LGBTQ+ people of color often experience posttraumatic stress after oppression and discrimination. Our model also recognizes the impact of intersecting risk factors, such as gendered racism, that may occur on various levels. Our model acknowledges that LGBTQ+ people of color have often demonstrated PTG in the face of adversity. Intrapersonal factors such as cognitive flexibility, interpersonal factors such as social support, and institutional and cultural factors such as identity‐related activism are identified as key contributors to resilience. We discuss practice implications, highlighting that clinicians should recognize limitations of traditional trauma frameworks and adopt culturally sensitive approaches when working with LGBTQ+ people of color. Overall, our model provides a foundation for strengths‐based interventions and research, emphasizing resiliency and potential for PTG in this population.

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Advancing a Holistic Trauma Framework for Collective Healing From Colonial Abuses

Cited by 14 publications

References 91 publications

Resilience is an Adverse Event: A Critical Discussion of Resilience Theory in Health Services Research and Public Health

Resilience is an Adverse Event: A Critical Discussion of Resilience Theory in Health Services Research and Public Health

Sexual orientation and gender diversity research manuscript writing guide.

Moving beyond vulnerability and focusing on resilience: An intersectional posttraumatic growth model for LGBTQ+ people of color

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