Editorial note

Viann Nguyen-Feng Editor-In-Chief

Dear TPN friends,

The editorial team and I wish you a warm welcome to the Trauma Psychology News Summer 2024 issue, themed “Healing across the lifespan and generations.”

Our cover art is Crazy Horse by Liza Haldane, member of the Nisga’a Tribe, a First Nation in what we now call Canada. Like our healing across the lifespan and generations, the Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills, SD is a continual work in progress. The sculpture was started in 1947 and is progressing yet remains unfinished to this day. Chief Henry Standing Bear invited K. Ziolkowski, a former assistant carver of Mount Rushmore, to create the sculpture of Tasunke Witco, Oglala Lakota tribe member also known as Crazy Horse. Chief Standing Bear’s invitation letter stated, “My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know that the red man has great heroes also.”

This issue explores healing across the lifespan and generations, such as healing from childhood (Feature, p. 8) to adulthood, considering the roles of attachment (Students, p. 28) and additional contextual factors. This issue explores such factors across one’s life trajectory (Multicultural & Diversity, p. 18), such as from military discharge to the civilian workforce (Military & Veterans, p. 14).

Thank you for reading this note and for choosing to engage with these words at this time. I look forward to the opportunity to hear, share, and honor your stories in this TPN space.