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Intergenerational Trauma: What It Is & How to Heal
By Dakota King-White — 2020
Intergenerational trauma—sometimes referred to as transgenerational trauma—is a term that is used to describe the impact of a traumatic experience, not only on one generation, but on subsequent generations after the event.
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