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Healing ethno-racial trauma in Latinx immigrant communities: Cultivating hope, resistance, and action

Source: The American Psychologist

Resource Type: Documents and Publications

Focus Population: Immigrant and Migrant Populations, People who have experienced Trauma

Topics: Culturally Specific Strengths and Resilience, Trauma-informed

The article provides a coherent intersectional framework for understanding the impact of systems of oppression on Latinx communities and a model for working with the resultant ethno-racial trauma that Latinx communities suffer as a consequence. The model offers ways for community members both to resist the oppression and to heal from it.