CHI 123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Peer Pressure, Disconnection, Physical Abuse
30 May 2018
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5/3/18 – TRAUMA
Sequalae of Trauma
• Soul wounds
o Spirit murder
o Things that happen that affect your interior.
o Someone who cares for you is like a buffer or protective factor. Protects you from this
trauma.
• Increase risk factors
• Can be mediated by protective factors
• Primary problems of adolescent males:
o Substance misuse
o Aggression/violence
o Depression & anxiety
o School disengagement
Fire and Firewater
• Carrillo & Tello view IPV as a manifestation of soul wounds, historical trauma, continued
experiences of oppression.
• Children who grow up witnessing violence have increased risk of committing and being
victimized by violence.
o Neurobiological explanations
o Social learning theories
o Family systems explanations
National compadres network model
• Contributing or risk factors:
o Culture of violence learned from the group’s histoy, soiety ad faily.
o Sexist values and sexist social rules (culture of violence and oppression against women).
o Psychological factors and co-occurring conditions.
o Socioeconomic conditions–poverty, unemployment, discrimination.
o Acculturation and acculturative stress.
Substance Abuse
• Youth who grow up in abusive families:
o Who witness parental abuse
o Who are maltreated or neglected
o Who see parental substance abuse
▪ May become aggressors.
▪ Also run the risk of mood and anxiety disorder.
▪ Substances may be used to self soothe.
• Use of alcohols is the most powerful predictor of IPV.
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Document Summary
Sequalae of trauma: soul wounds, spirit murder, things that happen that affect your interior, someone who cares for you is like a buffer or protective factor. Increase risk factors: can be mediated by protective factors, primary problems of adolescent males, substance misuse, aggression/violence, depression & anxiety, school disengagement. Impulsivity: criminal behavior (including gang membership, suicidal ideation and intent, death by police. Violence in the family: prolonged exposure to family violence leads to psycho-neurological impairments: Increase in substance abuse: overactive cingulate gyrus, part of limbic system, function of which is to detect errors, risk and conflict management, response inhibition, adaptation. In both males and females increases use of substances: disconnection from culture of origin leads of psychological homelessness, despair. Increases risk for substance abuse to self soothe. In turn this leads to aforementioned problems: source: carrillo & sarza. Family secrets: violence and substance abuse can cause shame, cultu(cid:396)al (cid:448)alues (cid:373)ay p(cid:396)o(cid:373)ote se(cid:272)(cid:396)e(cid:272)y (cid:894)(cid:449)o(cid:396)(cid:396)ies a(cid:271)out (cid:862)el (cid:395)ue di(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:863)(cid:895)
