Main description:

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction to Trauma and Human RightsChapter 2: Traumatic Experience, Human Rights Violations, and Their IntersectionChapter 3: Moving Toward Trauma-Informed and Human Rights-Based Social Policy: the Role of the Helping ProfessionsChapter 4: Enhancing Indigenous Wellbeing: Applying Human Rights and Trauma-Informed Perspectives with Native AmericansChapter 5: Black Trauma in the US and the Pursuit of Human Rights: A Brief HistoryChapter 6: Children's Experiences of Trauma and Human Rights Violations Around the WorldChapter 7: Women, Trauma, and Human RightsChapter 8: The Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: A Trauma-Informed and Human Rights PerspectiveChapter 9: Mental Disability, Trauma, and Human RightsChapter 10: Refugees and Asylum SeekersChapter 11: The Interrelationship between Aging, Trauma, and the End of LifeChapter 12: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, Human Rights, and TraumaChapter 13: Afterword: Human Rights and the Science of Suffering