Communication Disorders Quarterly
Volume 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 195-207

Education as catalyst for intergenerational refugee family communication about war and trauma (Article)

Lin N.J. , Suyemoto K.L. , Kiang P.N.-C.
  • a University of Massachusetts, Boston, United States, Psychology Department, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125-3393, United States
  • b University of Massachusetts, Boston, United States
  • c University of Massachusetts, Boston, United States

Abstract

This article describes influences on intergenerational communication within refugee families about sociocultural trauma and explores how education may positively affect this communication process. Drawing on qualitative research and grounded theory through a larger study concerning intergenerational effects of and communication about trauma in Cambodian American refugee families, this article highlights ways that education may contribute to healing broken narratives within refugee families affected by war and genocide. Although focusing on Cambodian American experiences, we suggest that the role of education may be similarly helpful in facilitating intergenerational communication for other individuals with personal and familial experiences with trauma, such as students from refugee families who have fled Vietnam, Somalia, Bosnia, and other sites of forced migration. © 2009 Hammill Institute.

Author Keywords

Cambodian communication trauma Refugee Family

Index Keywords

Somalia controlled study Asian American priority journal Viet Nam Bosnia and Herzegovina refugee psychotrauma clinical article Cambodia qualitative research Article interpersonal communication student human adult migration war
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-68249155528&doi=10.1177%2f1525740108329234&partnerID=40&md5=6b0db68ba1f23f6d6dc87ae21e41f9bf
DOI: 10.1177/1525740108329234
ISSN: 15257401
Cited by: 23
Original Language: English