That's why Teng wanted to take a new approach. 80% of psychologists, 63% of counselors and 59% of social workers are white, according to Data USA, a website that constructs visualizations of public federal data.Īsia Verdict On Khmer Rouge Leaders Is First To Officially Acknowledge Regime's Genocide Therapy is a predominantly white field in the U.S.
Teng's graduate program isn't the only one like this.
"I just felt silenced in my own history my own experience in the work that I was doing." "I didn't feel represented, and I felt that so much of my family's history just didn't feel like it was considered," she says, adding that she was studying under teachers who were predominantly white. She began to notice how dealing with certain issues, including race and immigration, were not given priority in her clinical training - even though she knew how important they are in shaping a life. 1995 51(1):4–12.It was this realization that compelled Teng to become a therapist in 2018 she began her graduate studies in Seattle.īut when COVID-19 hit and the Black Lives Matter movement came into full force, with communities of color having a more public conversation about their struggles in the U.S., Teng says she started feeling differently about her training and the profession she'd be entering. The effect of PTSD and combat level on Vietnam veterans’ perceptions of child behavior and marital adjustment. Journal of the American Medical Association. Mental health, social functioning, and attitudes of Kosovar Albanians following the war in Kosovo. Mental health, social functioning, and disability in postwar Afghanistan. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health. Psychopathological status, behavior problems, and family adjustment of Kuwaiti children whose fathers were involved in the first Gulf war. Traumatic experiences and post-traumatic stress disorder in Kurdistanian children and their parents in homeland and exile: An epidemiological approach. Kosovo PTSD children intergenerational parents trauma war.Īhmad A, Von Knorring A. Future research should include longitudinal studies conducting multivariate analyses with larger sample sizes in order to investigate indicators, causal and resilience factors.
As symptoms of parents and children are associated, mental health problems of close ones should be actively screened and accounted for in comprehensive treatment plans, using a systemic approach. In multiple regression analyses, only posttraumatic stress symptoms of fathers were significantly related with children's depressive symptoms.Įleven years after the Kosovo war, the presence of posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in civilian adults and their children is still substantial. While strong correlations were found between children's depressive symptoms and paternal posttraumatic stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms, maternal symptoms did not correlate with their children's. In a cross-sectional study, a paired sample of 51 randomly selected triplets (school-aged child, mother, father, N=153) of Kosovar families was investigated with regard to trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress (UCLA Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale), anxiety (Spence Children's Anxiety Scale, Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25), and depressive symptoms (Depressionsinventar für Kinder und Jugendliche, Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25).Ĭonsiderable trauma exposure and high prevalence rates of clinically relevant posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms were found in both parents and children. To shed light on intergenerational aspects of trauma-related mental health problems among families 11 years after the Kosovo war. Evidence regarding intergenerational effects of trauma in families is inconsistent. While there is a considerable amount of literature addressing consequences of trauma in veterans and holocaust survivors, war and postwar civilian populations, particularly children, are still understudied.