If you have ancestors or older relatives who went through a very distressing or oppressive event, their emotional and behavioral reactions could ripple through the generations of your family and ...

That trauma can be transmitted intergenerationally is generally accepted by mental health professionals. Psychologist Tamaré Hill offers us succinct definition: “I tend to define inter-generational ...

Trauma is an experience so harrowing that it can alter our gene expression — and in some cases, these changes can be passed down to future generations. But if the traumas experienced by our parents, ...

Intergenerational trauma is where the psychological effects of painful events are passed on in families. A psychotherapist shared five signs you might be experiencing intergenerational trauma.

Syed Mujtaba is a child rights practitioner and public health lawyer, specialising in juvenile justice and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS). With a background in public health law, he ...

In the 1860s, American abolitionist Frederick Douglass noted that people invested in social change “endeavor to remove the contradiction” between “what ought to be” and “what is.” This contradiction ...