Resilience and Group-Based Harm
Publication: IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
Volume 12, Number 1
Abstract
This paper considers an area of research in clinical psychology that focuses on the resilience of members of marginalized groups who have experienced traumas directly related to their social identities. The paper describes these as social group-based traumas and outlines three effects of social group-based traumas that can make the experiences of them, as well as experiences of recovery following them, distinct from those involved in other kinds of traumas. In cases where resilience frameworks are useful for understanding such recoveries, the paper proposes three methodological strategies for designing research to address the characteristics of social group-based trauma.
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