Moreover, we suggest that trauma may dispose individuals to further stressors, and increase the response to these stressors. Transgenerational trauma is frequently experienced by marginalized people with ancestry that have experienced violence and discrimination based on their racial, religious, or cultural identities. Significant events, such as an unanticipated global pandemic, created a. The profound racial divide expands and contracts but never ceases to exist since the hearts and minds of people are continuously changing. In the present review we outline some of the behavioural disturbances associated with stressful/traumatic experiences (e.g., depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse disorder), and describe the influence of several variables (age, sex, early life or other experiences, appraisals, coping strategies, as well as stressor chronicity, controllability, predictability and ambiguity) on vulnerability to pathology. Survival, for our forefathers, came with a price tag it’s called transgenerational trauma and modern-day racism. Given the lengthy and traumatic history of stressors experienced by Aboriginal peoples, it might be expected that such intergenerational effects may be particularly notable.

In addition, through these and similar processes, traumatic experiences may have adverse intergenerational consequences.

Stressful events may have immediate effects on well-being, and by influencing appraisal processes, coping methods, life styles, parental behaviours, as well as behavioural and neuronal reactivity, may also have long lasting repercussions on physical and psychological health.