‘Individual trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being’
Trauma can be conceptualised as being ‘contagious’; it may be passed on through individuals, families, communities, and society, often inter-generationally
Trauma’s mode of transmission is most often through adverse power dynamics