Noelle M. St. Vil, PhD, and Christopher St. Vil, PhD, are assistant professors, School of Social Work, University at Buffalo. Colita Nichols Fairfax, PhD, is professor, Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA.
Soc Work. 2019 Apr 1;64(2):139-146. doi: 10.1093/sw/swz002.
African American marriages and relationships have strived to model the white patriarchal nuclear family model, but the experiences of slavery and contemporary structural racism have prevented the attainment of this model. Posttraumatic slave syndrome offers a framework that allows social workers to place African American experiences within a trauma-informed perspective and think about their implication for trauma-specific interventions. This article provides a brief overview of the traumatic experiences of African Americans as they relate to African American relationships, integrates the historical experiences of African Americans into a trauma-informed perspective to help social workers recognize the manifestations of trauma in African American relationships, and discusses implications for trauma-specific interventions to strengthen African American relationships.
非裔美国人的婚姻和关系一直努力模仿白人父权制核心家庭模式，但奴隶制和当代结构种族主义的经历阻碍了这一模式的实现。创伤后奴隶综合征为社会工作者提供了一个框架，使他们能够从创伤知情的角度看待非裔美国人的经历，并思考其对创伤特定干预措施的影响。本文简要概述了非裔美国人与非裔美国人关系相关的创伤经历，将非裔美国人的历史经历纳入创伤知情的视角，以帮助社会工作者识别非裔美国人关系中的创伤表现，并讨论了加强非裔美国人关系的创伤特定干预措施的意义。
