Trauma and Human Rights

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to Trauma and Human Rights: Context and Content

   • Janice Carello, Lisa D. Butler, Filomena M. Critelli

   Pages 1-10

3. Traumatic Experience, Human Rights Violations, and Their Intersection

   • Lisa D. Butler, Filomena M. Critelli

   Pages 11-53

4. Moving Toward Trauma-Informed and Human Rights-Based Social Policy: The Role of the Helping Professions

   • Elizabeth A. Bowen, Nadine Shaanta Murshid, Amanda Brylinski-Jackson, Shirley Gatenio Gabel

   Pages 55-74

5. Enhancing Indigenous Well-Being: Applying Human Rights and Trauma-Informed Perspectives with Native Americans

   • Hilary N. Weaver

   Pages 75-98

6. Black Trauma in the US and the Pursuit of Human Rights: A Brief History

   • Christopher St. Vil, Noelle M. St. Vil

   Pages 99-124

7. Children’s Experiences of Trauma and Human Rights Violations Around the World

   • Molly R. Wolf, Shraddha Prabhu, Janice Carello

   Pages 125-149

8. Women, Trauma, and Human Rights

   • Filomena M. Critelli, Jane McPherson

   Pages 151-177

9. The Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: A Trauma-Informed and Human Rights Perspective

   • Diane E. Elze

   Pages 179-206

10. Mental Disability, Trauma, and Human Rights

    • Éva Szeli

    Pages 207-220

11. Refugees and Asylum Seekers

    • Isok Kim, S. Megan Berthold, Filomena M. Critelli

    Pages 221-240

12. The Interrelationship Between Aging, Trauma, and the End of Life

    • Jacqueline McGinley, Deborah Waldrop

    Pages 241-264

13. Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, Human Rights, and Trauma

    • David K. Androff

    Pages 265-286

14. Afterword: Human Rights and the Science of Suffering

    • Sandra L. Bloom

    Pages 287-319

15. Back Matter

    Pages 321-336

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Human rights violations and traumatic events often comingle in victims’ experiences; however, the human rights framework and trauma theory are rarely deployed together to illuminate such experiences. This edited volume explores the intersection of trauma and human rights by presenting the development and current status of each of these frameworks, examining traumatic experiences and human rights violations across a range of populations and describing efforts to remediate them. Individual chapters address these topics among Native Americans, African Americans, children, women, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender individuals, those with mental disabilities, refugees and asylees, and older adults, and also in the context of social policy and truth and reconciliation commissions. The authors demonstrate that the trauma and human rights frameworks each contribute invaluable and complementary insights, and that their integration can help us fully appreciate and address human suffering at both individual and collective levels.

• Trauma Studies
• Trauma Care
• Trauma-informed Framework
• Human Rights
• Social Justice
• Human Rights Violations
• Social Policy
• Minority Groups
• Cultural Trauma
• Historical Trauma Theory
• Childhood Trauma
• Adolescent Trauma
• Gender Studies
• LGBTQ Studies
• Immigrants
• Refugees

• School of Social Work, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

  Lisa D. Butler, Filomena M. Critelli

• Department of Social Work, Edinboro University, Edinboro, USA

  Janice Carello

Lisa D. Butler, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, NY, USA.

Filomena M. Critelli, PhD, is Associate Professor and the Co-Director of the Institute for Sustainable Global Engagement in the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, NY, USA. 

Janice Carello, LMSW, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at Edinboro University, in Edinboro, PA, USA. 

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