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- Title
Indero: Intergenerational Trauma and Resilience between Burundian Former Child Soldiers and Their Children.
- Authors
Song, Suzan Joon; Tol, Wietse; Jong, Joop
- Abstract
Since many former child soldiers are aging and having children of their own, this study aimed to understand how the effects of trauma are passed to the next generation. In this qualitative study, semistructured interviews, focus groups, and observations were conducted with 25 former child soldiers and 15 matched civilian parents. Analysis used a grounded-theory approach. Trauma may be transmitted from former child soldiers to their offspring via (a) the effect on indero (how to raise a child); (b) severe parental emotional distress; and (c) community effects. Incorporating themes of indero values on how to raise children, the effects of parental posttraumatic stress and depressive symptoms on offspring, and the stigma associated with the families of former child soldiers may provide key areas of intervention in mental healing.
- Subjects
FOCUS groups; GROUNDED theory; INTERGENERATIONAL relations; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; RESEARCH evaluation; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; PSYCHOLOGY of military personnel; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS &; injuries; FAMILY relations; CASE-control method; CHILDREN
- Publication
Family Process, 2014, Vol 53, Issue 2, p239
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/famp.12071