Citation

Weingarten K. J. Marital Fam. Ther. 2004; 30(1): 45-59.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Family Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. kaethe@witnessingproject.org

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

14763208

Abstract

In this era of globalization, when news about political violence can haunt anyone, anywhere, those whose families have suffered political violence in the past are particularly vulnerable to current distress. Skilled in understanding transgenerational processes, family therapists need to be familiar with the mechanisms by which children are exposed to the effects of political violence suffered by their elders-that is, the ways in which they become their witnesses. This article presents a framework for understanding how the trauma of political violence experienced in one generation can "pass" to another that did not directly experience it, and proposes a model to guide clinical intervention.

Language: en