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Chapter 28: Intergenerational Trauma and Indigenous People (Hilary Weaver)

Multiple Choice

1. When does intergenerational trauma occur?

a. Following elections

b. During selection of unprecedented persons for leadership

c. Following a recession

*d. Following large-scale losses

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Overview of Intergenerational Trauma
Question Type: MC

2. What type of trauma typically occurs in populations that experience a power disadvantage and subsequent oppression?

a. Sequential trauma

b. Small-scale trauma

*c. Large-scale trauma

d. Generational trauma

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Overview of Intergenerational Trauma
Question Type: MC

3. What are two critical factors of recovery?

*a. Remembering and mourning

b. Acknowledgment and acceptance

c. Recounting and re-living

d. Counseling and social support

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: General Principles for Intervention
Question Type: MC

4. What type of trauma is best conceptualized in sequential stages?

*a. Intergenerational trauma

b. Generational trauma

c. Large-scale trauma

d. Historical trauma

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Overview of Intergenerational Trauma

Question Type: MC

5. What type of trauma suggests that intergenerational trauma is a legacy of events that happened in the past?

a. Generational trauma

b. Large-scale trauma

*c. Historical trauma

d. Intergenerational trauma

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Overview of Intergenerational Trauma
Question Type: MC

6. What factors perpetuate trauma?

a. Retelling stories and reliving the past

*b. Physical and psychological expressions of violence

c. Constant war and violence

d. Miniature-scale replication of large violence

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Overview of Intergenerational Trauma
Question Type: MC

7. What factor contributed to the devastation experienced by Indigenous peoples in America for which there was no solution?

*a. New diseases

b. Lack of resources

c. Natural disasters

d. Genocide

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Examining the Intergenerational Trauma Experiences of Native Americans
Question Type: MC

8. What are the assimilationist social policies designed to eliminate Indigenous cultures, languages, and spirituality?

a. Dawes Act of 1887

b. Contemporary expressions of violence

c. Intergenerational trauma

*d. Cultural genocide

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Examining the Intergenerational Trauma Experiences of Native Americans
Question Type: MC

9. What Act created the federal trusteeship over Native people and resulted in the loss of Native land holdings?

a. Native American Land Holdings Act

*b. Dawes Act

c. Cultural Genocide Act

d. Indigenous Relegation Act

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Examining the Intergenerational Trauma Experiences of Native Americans
Question Type: MC

10. What event served as a capstone summarizing many losses experienced by the Lakota and other indigenous peoples?

*a. Wounded Knee Massacre

b. Dawes Act

c. Cultural Genocide Act

d. Lakota Massacre

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Macro Level Events that Promote Healing
Question Type: MC

True/False

1. Native American cultures emphasize a collective sense of identity prioritizing the group over the individual.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge or Comprehension

Answer Location: Examining the Intergenerational Trauma Experiences of Native Americans
Question Type: TF

2. Broken treaties and erosion of promises by the European settlers added to the traumatic experiences of Native Americans.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge or Comprehension

Answer Location: Examining the Intergenerational Trauma Experiences of Native Americans
Question Type: TF

3. Under the he Dawes Act of 1887, the U.S. conducted a policy of dividing Native lands and distributing them to individuals.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Examining the Intergenerational Trauma Experiences of Native Americans
Question Type: TF

4. Large-scale trauma includes traumatic events linked to social, biological, and spiritual indicators of well-being.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social, Biological, Spiritual Impact of Historical Trauma
Question Type: TF

5.Cumulative intergenerational stress may trigger a host of psychosocial and biological disorders.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Social, Biological, Spiritual Impact of Historical Trauma

Question Type: TF

6. Assessment for historical trauma should include a family history to identify how current problems fit with intergenerational patterns.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Micro Perspective
Question Type: TF

7. Empowerment practice can serve as a framework for interventions for intergenerational trauma.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: General Principles for Intervention
Question Type: TF

8. When working with Indigenous populations, any common life and background experiences between client and practitioner may be presumed as a basis for a connection and potential for transference and countertransference.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Transference and Countertransference
Question Type: TF

9. Much of what Native Americans experienced was trauma, but the use of trauma-informed care with this population is unethical in social work practice because it will retraumatize this disenfranchised population.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Legal and Ethical Concerns
Question Type: TF

10. One role of social workers with this population is to interrupt the cycle of intergenerational trauma.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conclusion
Question Type: TF

Short Answer

Type: S

1. What are two aspects of client narratives that, when told from an Indigenous perspective, promote healing?

*a. Two aspects of client narratives that, when told from an Indigenous perspective, promotes healing are 1) recalling and 2) retelling history.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: General Principles for Intervention
Question Type: SA

Type: S

2. What are the five basic principles of trauma-informed services?

*a. The five basic principles of trauma-informed services are 1) safety, 2) trustworthiness, 3) choice, 4) collaboration, and 5) empowerment.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Mezzo Considerations
Question Type: SA

Essay

Type: E

1. Describe intergenerational and large-scale trauma, and explain the shift in the role of social workers in helping this population.

*a. Intergenerational trauma is typically conceptualized in sequential stages. It is similar to historical trauma in that it suggests that intergenerational trauma is a legacy of events that happened in the past and continue to manifest themselves through contemporary expressions of physical and psychological violence. Large-scale trauma typically occurs in populations that experience a power disadvantage and subsequent oppression. There are structural factors in society following large-scale losses. Past events in the lives of Indigenous persons are relevant to understanding current circumstances, and traumatic experiences extend beyond the initial victims. Social work, among other helping professions, has shifted their focus to these areas of practice because of the impact they have had on Indigenous populations. Social work’s role is to interrupt the cycle of intergenerational trauma and to confront contemporary disparities of all kind.

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Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Introduction, Overview of Intergenerational Trauma, and Conclusion
Question Type: ESS

Type: E

2. Describe how intergenerational trauma is understood through the lens of Native Americans.

*a. Native Americans emphasize a collective sense of identity that prioritizes the group over individuals. It is because of this reason that much of the devastation that has been experienced affects generation after generation. Their traumatic events centered on the introduction of new diseases into their reservations for which they had no immunities. This escalated with broken treaties and erosion of promises by European settlers. Large events like the cultural genocide and Dawes Act of 1887 exacerbated these challenges. Therefore, cumulative intergenerational stress may continue to trigger many psychosocial and biological disorders for this population that manifests as substance abuse, violence, and suicide in Native American communities.

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Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Examining the Intergenerational Trauma Experiences of Native Americans, Social Biological, Spiritual Impact of historical trauma
Question Type: ESS