Associate Member Webinar: Historical Trauma – Symptoms and Treatment

Date and Time: June 26; 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Location: Online via Zoom

**Please note this session is hosted by Boston College School of Social Work. Any questions regarding the session should be directed to continuinged@bc.edu.

This workshop focuses on understanding historical trauma, defined as multigenerational, collective trauma experienced by specific groups of people. Symptoms include: unresolved grief, cultural loss, intergenerational stressors, and a sense of institutional betrayal. The research underscores that historical trauma often manifests through storytelling, loss-related symptomatology, and broken cultural identities. Attendees will learn to identify these symptoms in individuals and organizations, using tools such as cultural humility and fostering intergenerational resilience through traditional healing and culturally adaptive interventions. Case studies will illustrate trauma’s organizational impacts, offering insights into supporting structures affected by systemic inequities.

This session has been approved for 3 CEUs for Social Work. 

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Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to define historical trauma and related synonyms to understand social maladies.
2. Participants will be able to recognize symptoms of historical trauma in individuals and organizations.
3. Participants will be able to identify interventions that have been proposed to address historical trauma.

Presented by:

Ricardo Diego Suarez Rojas, MA, MSW

Cost:

$75