Samuel Simmons Consulting
2016 Community Empowerment through Black Men Healing Conference - Keynote
Additional videos and audio:
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Sam Simmons Addresses Generational Trauma
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Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs) - Sam Simmons
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Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs) - Part 2 - Sam Simmons
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Historical Trauma - The African American Experience
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Historical Trauma - The African American Experience 2
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MPR: The effects of trauma on communities of color
HISTORICAL TRAUMA
FACT SHEET
Historical trauma is cumulative and collective. The impact of this type of trauma manifests itself, emotionally and psychologically, in members of different cultural groups (Brave Heart, 2011). As a collective phenomenon, those who never even experienced the traumatic stressor, such as children and descendants, can still exhibit signs and symptoms of trauma
Historical trauma can be experienced by “anyone living in families at one time marked by severe levels of trauma, poverty, dislocation, war, etc., and who are still suffering as a result”
(Cutler, n.d.).
POST TRAUMATIC
SLAVE SYNDOME
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome is a condition that exists as a consequence of centuries of chattel slavery followed by institutionalized racism and oppression have resulted in multigenerational adaptive behavior, some positive reflecting resilience, and others that are harmful and destructive.
Theory of P.T.S.S. was developed by Dr. Joy DeGruy as a result of twelve years of quantitative and qualitative research.