Social Work with Groups
Volume 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 45-59

Healing trauma and loss through a community-based multi-family group with Latino immigrants (Article)

Ludwig K.* , Imberti P. , Rodriguez R. , Torrens A.
  • a The Family Center, Brooklyn, NY 10014, United States
  • b North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center, Roslyn Heights, NY, United States
  • c Hostos Community College, City University of New York, New York, NY 10039, United States
  • d [Affiliation not available]

Abstract

Workers collaborated with a union to create a community-based, multi-family group that addressed traumatic loss experienced by families of union members who were missing after 9-11. The purpose of the group was to create a supportive healing community around shared losses and to normalize the struggles that the families experienced both internally and externally. Three vital components of this group will be discussed; an evolving group structure, cultural awareness, and the workers' own group process. Copyright © by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Hispanic Latino immigrants Group work traumatic loss World Trade Center 9-11 Multi-family group Ambiguous loss MFG trauma

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33750307278&doi=10.1300%2fJ009v29n04_04&partnerID=40&md5=af8a5162b451d357bbf8715752ebe4b0
DOI: 10.1300/J009v29n04_04
ISSN: 01609513
Cited by: 2
Original Language: English