Re-Authoring Life Narratives After Trauma

Front matter

HTS Religion & Society Series

Volume-5

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Part 1: Trauma and recovery

Chapter 1: The roadmap 3 The context of the Trauma Healing Research Project 7 The burden of refugee trauma 11 Why the Trauma Healing Research Project? 16

Training churches to heal trauma 16

Re-authoring life narratives shattered by trauma 19

Searching for meaning for trauma survivors 21 Recruiting research participants 22 How data were collected 24 Organisation of the book 27 Chapter 2: Biopsychosocial impact of trauma 33 Understanding trauma 34

Examples of traumatic events 40 Intergenerational trauma 40 Intergenerational effects of trauma 42

Responses to traumatic experiences 44

Avoidance

Re-experiencing

Increased arousal

Biological impact of trauma Changes in the brain Depression

Psychological impact of trauma Self-blame, guilt and shame Anger or aggressive behaviour Alcohol and/or drug abuse Post-traumatic stress disorder

Social impact of trauma Impact on the family Impact on the community