Prof John Boulton: Transgenerational Psychic Trauma- Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Assignment

Internal Code: MAS7582

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Assignment:

Task: Online Discussion Questions Q1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander transgenerational psychic trauma: Prof John Boulton Transgenerational psychic trauma operates through an alteration of the expression of an individual’s genetic potential to respond to environmental stressors, and the capacity for resilience. This can impair the individual’s level of social and emotional health and wellbeing through an increase in the risk of depression, post-traumatic stress-disorder, and other chronic health conditions from maladaptive behaviour such as alcohol abuse. Using what you have learned so far from your readings and lecture notes (and additional research), please describe (in 250 words or less) what you believe to be the primary contributing factors to continuing transgenerational psychic trauma among Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and explain why you have chosen to focus on these factors.