Adult Trauma Articles
Exploring the Wellness of Black Women Who Describe a Criterion A Trauma in their Life Story
Jessica Krukowski, Ed St. Aubin, & Karen RobinsonSection Editor: Sydney Timmer-Murillo Black women live in an intersection between two marginalized identities: their Blackness and their womanhood (King, 2019). Oftentimes the challenges Black men and boys face become synonymous with the entire Black experience (Patton et al., 2016). As a result, solidarity becomes asymmetrical, and the…
Read MoreMy daughter was murdered: “There are no words”
Deborah A. Stiles There are no words. I am a white woman who is a professor and psychologist; I suffered a traumatic loss in 2022 when my 34-year-old African American foster daughter was murdered. Although we were not biologically related, I was her mother, and she was my daughter; I deeply cherished and depended upon…
Read MoreBook Review – Emotional Neglect and the Adult in Therapy: Lifelong Consequences to a Lack of Early Attunement
Stauffer, K. A. (2021)W. W. Norton & Company I believe it was during a conference in 2015 when I first heard Martin Teicher talk about the impact of neglect in young children; how there was growing evidence that in comparing the “neglect trajectory” and “abuse trajectory” for the deleterious impact on the developing brain, neglect…
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