User talk:Mbh90/Transgenerational trauma

Here are my suggested changes implemented into your current article, approved by Grammarly: Trangenerational trauma Refugees One group of people that is often at risk of experiencing transgenerational trauma is refugees. While all refugees experience loss and trauma, war-related trauma has been documented to have longer-lasting effects on mental health and span through more generations. Children are especially prone to the trauma of resettling, as a migration to a new country has disrupted their childhood. They also often face the difficulty of learning a new language, adapting to a new environment, and navigating the school's social system in their host country. Considering that a home is where raising a family takes place, for refugees, caregiving is disrupted by the process of fleeing from their original home due to external forces. However, PTSD symptoms can accompany each family, which may continue to disrupt healthy relationships due to the additional challenges faced in their new home. Furthermore, most host countries do not provide an adequate mental healthcare system to refugees, which can worsen symptoms and lead to transmission of trauma. Overall, children of refugees had higher depression, PTSD, anxiety, attention deficiency, stress, and other psychological issues. Vietnam war refugees Since 1975, the US has accepted many refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos. As a result of the Vietnam War, many Southeast Asian refugees are at high risk of experiencing transgenerational trauma. Factors occurring both before and after immigration to America could contribute to traumatization in these groups. Being forced to witness and flee violence and war were uniquely traumatic occurrences, resulting in high levels of psychological distress.[1] Vietnamese Americans struggled to adapt to their new environment upon arriving in the United States. Moreover, resulting in limited social mobility, high rates of poverty within the community, and exposure to community violence. Vulnerability to these stressors is correlated with higher trauma symptoms among these refugees and first-generation Vietnamese Americans.[2] These refugees' traumatic experiences impacted how they raised their children by internalizing notions of being outsiders in a new country. There was also a high value upon their familial success in the face of their many sacrifices. These cultural and familial transmissions of trauma have led second-generation Vietnamese Americans to face intergenerational trauma, thus leading to unique forms of mental health and stress not often addressed due to socio-cultural standards of silence and refusal to seek treatment.[3] While most of these groups were fleeing war and poverty, Cambodian refugees were also fleeing a genocide from the Khmer Rouge. The atrocities of violence, starvation, and torture were common themes experienced by these refugees. Many Cambodian refugee families refused to talk about their trauma, creating an isolating environment for the child. Not learning healthy coping skills from their guardians, the transmission of trauma is initiated through a reverberating pattern of silence and refusal to acknowledge an issue or seek treatment. There has also been data showing that the children of survivors from regions with higher rates of violence and mortality displayed stronger overall symptoms than other reasons for fleeing. The parenting style of caregivers may also contribute to the impact rate among children of Khmer Rouge survivors. A 2013 study found that among Khmer Rouge survivors with PTSD who engage in role-reversal parenting, there may be higher rates of anxiety and depression in the children. Role-reversal parenting is a technique where the parent looks to the child for emotional support. --Lmv54 (talk) 22:21, 18 April 2022 (UTC) Lmv54

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--Liliput000 (talk) 16:21, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi folks! Honestly this is really solid in terms of content and tone, so my edits are more technical/grammatical
 * important: It looks like you forgot to copy content in "Edit" mode from the original article so be extra mindful when integrating your edits, to ensure that you don't delete the sources that are there
 * Some of Lorena's edits above are not necessary, so take these with a grain of salt and use your judgment. She of course means well but some are unnecessary and/or too heavy-handed.
 * I like the subheading change that you made re Vietnam War Refugees
 * In the 2nd sentence, "war-related trauma has been documented to have longer-lasting effects on mental health" is a helpful edit
 * In the 4th sentence, this too is helpful: "and navigating the school's social system in their host country"
 * adding a comma before "which" in the sentence that begins with "Furthermore" is appropriate
 * In the last sentence of this first section, change "had" to "exhibited"
 * in your 3rd sentence in the Vietnam War Refugees section, end the sentence at "violence" and then start a new sentence, "Exposure to these stressors..."
 * In the very last paragraph, it is appropriate to add "The" ahead of "parenting"
 * The next step is also to identify terms/concepts/historical events etc to hyperlink to the term/concept/events's respective existing Wikipedia articles --- it's super easy to do this by highlighting the text and then selecting the hyperlink button in the styles menu bar and it will automatically suggest pages that exist, to link out to. Let me know if you have questions on this! And then also, if appropriate, link back to your section from there! You can see in the rest of the article how this looks...