Culture, society, and trauma - An overview

By: Tom Cloyd; reviewed: 2025-02-23:2222 Pacific Time (USA))

When we look beyond the individual for causes, manifestations, and effects of psychological trauma, we look at the realms of the cultural and the social. These realms of typically intimately related and interconnected.

“Cultural” matters concern those ways of thinking, feeling, and acting which are learned from others and taught to others, especially across generations.

“Social” matters concern the kind of relationships that individuals have with each other, in families, leisure, work, and other contexts.

The following articles on these subjects are offered:

• Childhood adversity is a ‘cause of causes’ of adult illnesses and mental health problems - This public health hazard hides in plain sight
• Children must be protected in their earliest years - Serious mental and physical health risks in later life can be minimized if we do this
• Young children who are survivors of sexual abuse are not being heard - The #MeToo movement has not included young sexual abuse victims
• Parental violence against children has consequences - …And none of them are good
• Physicians urged to check siblings of suspected child abuse victims - Children living in the same home or in contact with the same caretaker are also at risk
• Mental Health and treatment - American views are becoming distinctly more positive
• DID (Dissociative identity disorder) myths - corrected - distinguishing facts from fiction
• Rape - it’s effectively decriminalized in England and Wales - Why do so many men get away with rape? Police officers, survivors, lawyers and prosecutors on the scandal that shames the justice system
• School shootings: At least 377 have occurred since Columbine - Well over a quarter of a million children have been exposed to this violence since 1999
• Sexual abuse rampant in U.S. federal prisons - Bipartisan federal report finds abuse in the majority of prisons
• Calling prostitution "Sex work" makes the problem worse - It’s cover-up language
• LGBTQ in America? That’s dangerous!- Americans violently abuse LGBTQ people 9 times more often than non-LGBTQ people

 

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