ArticleBMC psychiatry2012
Transgenerational transmission of trauma and resilience: a qualitative study with Brazilian offspring of Holocaust survivors.
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- Parent-Child Communication About Potentially Traumatic Events: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2024Pooled it
- Intergenerational Trauma in Refugee Families: A Systematic Review.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2017Pooled it
- Disclosure and silencing: A systematic review of the literature on patterns of trauma communication in refugee families.Transcultural psychiatry · 2015Pooled it
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- Indirect intrusions about World War Two in survivor offspring: a qualitative thematic content analysis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- War trauma impacts in Ukrainian combat and civilian populations: Moral injury and associated mental health symptoms.Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2024Article
- Demographic, Environmental, and Psychosocial Influences on Resilience Toward Chronic Stress.Cureus · 2024Review
- 'We are all children of war': a qualitative inquiry into parenting following adolescents' recent traumatic exposure in a multiple crisis setting in Beirut, Lebanon.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- In the shadow of dissidence: exploring the experiences of descendants of Czechoslovakian dissidents.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The burden of trauma in the life of a refugee.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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- Transgenerational trauma in Rwandan genocidal rape survivors and their children: A culturally enhanced bioecological approach.Transcultural psychiatry · 2022Article
- Whether and when disclosing the trauma to one's children in a migratory context? A pilot mixed methods investigation.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- Personal characteristics of World War Two survivor offspring related to the presence of indirect intrusions.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2022Article
- Combatting intergenerational effects of psychotrauma with multifamily therapy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundOver the past five decades, clinicians and researchers have debated the impact of the Holocaust on the children of its survivors. The transgenerational transmission of trauma has been explored in more than 500 articles, which have failed to reach reliable conclusions that could be generalized. The psychiatric literature shows mixed findings regarding this subject: many clinical studies reported psychopathological findings related to transgenerational transmission of trauma and some empirical research has found no evidence of this phenomenon in offspring of Holocaust survivors.
methodThis qualitative study aims to detect how the second generation perceives transgenerational transmission of their parents' experiences in the Holocaust. In-depth individual interviews were conducted with fifteen offspring of Holocaust survivors and sought to analyze experiences, meanings and subjective processes of the participants. A Grounded Theory approach was employed, and constant comparative method was used for analysis of textual data.
resultsThe development of conceptual categories led to the emergence of distinct patterns of communication from parents to their descendants. The qualitative methodology also allowed systematization of the different ways in which offspring can deal with parental trauma, which determine the development of specific mechanisms of traumatic experience or resilience in the second generation.
conclusionsThe conceptual categories constructed by the Grounded Theory approach were used to present a possible model of the transgenerational transmission of trauma, showing that not only traumatic experiences, but also resilience patterns can be transmitted to and developed by the second generation. As in all qualitative studies, these conclusions cannot be generalized, but the findings can be tested in other contexts.
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