A nurse who provides care for many Native American clients knows that several clients live with constellations of symptoms that have resulted from the accumulation of trauma over several generations. This phenomenon is known as:
A) Cultural trauma
B) Forced assimilation
C) Historical trauma
D) Generational trauma
Ans: C
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Historical trauma is defined as "a constellation of symptoms that occur as a result of cumulative emotional and psychological trauma, which is transmitted across the life span of generations as a result of colonization and genocide" (Yellow Horse Brave Heart, 2003).
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