Ms. Kralj ENG3UI-03 30 January 2023 Final Summative Essay As the sun sets on the streets of North End, Winnipeg, a community is left to grapple with the aftermath of a devastating event that shatters the lives of those involved. In “The Break,” author Katherena Vermette masterfully explores the impact of intergenerational trauma on a family and community by looking at those directly affected. After Emily, one of the younger members of the family gets brutally assaulted, the family comes together and confronts their shared pain. Through the novel’s intricate web of characters and their interconnected stories, Vermette paints a poignant and powerful picture of the resilience and strength of those who have been broken but refuse to be broken further.
The Break by Katherena Vermette exposes the reader to the lives and issues that impact generations of Indigenous women which is told by ten distinct voices, which includes Phoenix’s. The third person narrative of Phoenix reveals how intergenerational trauma has affected Indigenous women of Canada and caused them to experience family problems. The flashbacks and memories of Phoenix as a child highlight how intergenerational trauma has caused there to be a rift between Phoenix and her family. The internal monologue and the extreme actions she takes to be loved exposes the readers to how Phoenix, due to not growing up with a proper family, always seeks affection and approval. Furthermore, the conversation Phoenix has with her mother in prison
The author mentions the case of celebrity Anna Nicole Smith, who married an elderly man. Reports that U.S. life expectancy has increased in the past century and an expected rise in the maximum possible age are highlighted. He reports how stem-cell could be useful like it is in other countries. The article “That Lean and Hungry Look” by
The Outside Circle by Patti Laboucane-Benson highlights the importance of understanding mental health, addictions, trauma, and intergenerational trauma in indigenous communities. Exploring this story through the perceptions of Pete Ray and Joey carver this paper will prove an understanding of how healing mental health, addiction, trauma, and intergenerational trauma is vital for indigenous communities' well-being and recovery. Mental Health Petes depression and anxiety are evident in the beginning of the novel. This is evident as the first time the symbolic mask appears on his face, he is reacting to his girlfriend telling him that she is pregnant. This brings Pete directly to anger and he says, “whose baby is it?”
In the article entitled “Risk and Resilience Factors in Families under Ongoing Terror A long the Life Cycle,” written by Michael Finklestein, discusses the uncertainty and rebounding components that occur among distressed families in each stage of the life-cycle due to the subjection of ongoing mass trauma such as wars and political violence, while living in southwestern Israel. According to the case studies, each family’s vulnerability to the direct eruption of munition, destruction to their residence, injuries and death amongst loved ones, friends, and neighbors afflicted psychological and emotional issues concurrently upon many family members, in each period of the life-cycle. Such destruction among the entire family is the blueprint of maladaptive behavior- a type of behavior that is often used to reduce one’s anxiety, but the results is dysfunctional and non-productive. For instance, maladaptive behavior is demonstrated in each case examples such as role confusion between children and/or adolescents and their parents, the young adult daughter who over-cares for her mother who lives in a war zone environment, families in midlife post-pone their self-developmental needs, and families in later life are dependent upon their loved ones to care for their well-being in which makes them behave disgruntle and feel inadequate (Finklestein 2016).
As a child I never understood why dad was always so angry. Whether it was him becoming enraged over tiny things, such as hearing the noise a ball makes when it bounces, or not being able to drive with cars behind him. As a seven-year-old living on Mannheim Army Base, Germany in a small apartment with my mom, brother, and dad, I could not comprehend what was wrong. When my dad walked in the door at night after a long day of work he was not happy to see his family. He never played with us, or helped with our homework.
What does multi-stressed families means to me? Multi-stressed families can be defined as a combining form of stress in a real or imagined lack of balance between the demands on the family and the family’s ability to meet those demands. In the definition of family stress, the demands in the family are commonly referred to as stressors. A stressor is a life event or a transition that happens in the family. It can be either positive or negative and can cause a change in the family’s coping pattern.
The age of life expectancy for an average healthy human being has been about 70 years old for the past few decades. But as society and medicine advance simultaneously, the number is expected to increase as new ideas of what people can accomplish in their elder years of life continue to be challenged. The authors aim to interpret exactly why this particular age is considered when someone dies as a time when that person has lived a “full life,” compared to when someone at a younger age dies. Both authors intend to attract an audience of health professionals, elderly people, medical researchers and institutes, and individuals who have survived beyond the age of 70. The quote, “As life expectancies continue to change, so too will our collective ideas about death and its timing—not just for geniuses who write generation-defining anthems, but also the rest of us who still have unfinished business of our own,”
Introduction There have been a variety of studies, which have established how disruptions to attachment and bonding can negatively effect on emotional and psychological development. Family separation and loss experiences have been clearly identified as a risk factor for mental health problems in childhood and adulthood. Way of thinking, temperament and experiences all things play important roles, children who have had broken up relationships with primary caregivers are more likely to have compromised mental health. Separation and loss can be traumatic and its impact depends on the situation of the separation or loss. The work of Van der Kolk (1996) and others (Glaser, 1998) also work on the effect of attachment on mental health ,time addition ,situation ,or conflict between child r care giver, sometimes effect psychological and biologically.
It’s shown that two out of three people have suffered from some form of generational trauma, this was studied at an organization called “Bridging Hope Counseling” that works toward empowering people (Bridging Hope Counseling). What is generational trauma? Generational trauma is a type of behavior that is continuously carried and passed down to each generation. Since many people do face generations of trauma without realizing it, it's so common to find it repeated in households. Chinua Achebe, the author of the novel Things Fall Apart, provides a fitting example of generational trauma.
Considering humans are seldom perfect, it is expected that every family has experienced some degree of difficulty. The wounds that often result from fractured family relationships is most aptly encapsulated in Eugene O’Neill’s largely autobiographical Long Day’s Journey into Night, where he reveals a broken and deteriorating family and slowly unravels the unfortunate circumstances that shaped the unstable relationships between the members of the family. Through this revelation, O’Neill paints a picture that is fair and unbiased but difficult to accept—that fractured family relationships are often the fault of all those involved, rather than the consequence of the actions of a sole individual. The members of the Tyrone family all have dark
Throughout history families and relationships have changed significantly from generation to the next. Relationships and laws have changed, there is no such thing as an ideal family structure, and when we think of traditional family-father, mother and children is now only a fantasy (Shvarts, 2015. Chapter 10: Family). Married couples now represent less than half of all Canadian families, and divorce rate is high (Shvarts, 2015. Chapter 10: Family).
Every single thing that happened in a child either good or bad has great effect in their life or future. We called it “Trauma”. However, several individuals don’t understand what they are going through and do not have any clue on how to help them. What is Trauma? According to American Psychological Association (2016), trauma is the effect of horrific incident like an accident, rape, divorce, natural disaster, death, and any other occurrence that has unpleasant effect on our future or life.
Miranda Rawson Effects of a Hurtful Family Environment What role does an environment play when it is hurtful, and how important is affection in family satisfaction? In this paper I will begin by discussing what environment may be considered hurtful and how affection plays a role in environments and family satisfaction. As well as how environments and affection are affected in relationships outside the family. Finally, I will also discuss the results of the study by Hesse, Rauscher, Roberts, & Ortega, (2014).
This essay discusses how the family is viewed by two different sociological perspectives- functionalism and conflict theory. Firstly, ‘family’ is defined. Secondly, the main ideas of functionalism will be discussed followed by how this theory perceives the family. The main ideas of Conflict Theory will then be examined and how conflict theorists perceive the family.
