Reframing Trauma Through Social Justice

Catrina Brown is professor at the School of Social Work and is cross-appointed to Gender and Women’ Studies at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. As the graduate coordinator at the School of Social Work for 15 years, until recently she focused on integrating critical theory and critical practice. Both her academic and clinical work focuses on social justice approaches to women’s health and mental health issues, including trauma, post-trauma, relational injury, substanceuse problems, depression and “eating disorders” within a feminist postmodern/narrative lens.

Introduction
Catrina Brown

1. Speaking the Unspeakable: Discursive and Political Resistance to Dominant Trauma Discourse and Trauma Work
Catrina Brown and Emma Tseris

2. Repositioning Our Understanding of Trauma Through the Lens of Epistemic Injustice and Hermeneutic Omissions
Marjorie Johnstone and Eunjung Lee

3. Myth of Trauma-Informed Mental Health Services
Emma Tseris

4. Ethics and the Concealment of Epistemic and Institutional Violence in Mental Health and Addiction Services
Norma Jean Profit

5. Feminist Therapy, Community Mental Health and Trauma
Heather Gaskill

6. Talking Trauma Talk and the Dangers of Speech: Feminist Narrative Therapeutic Conversations for Complex Trauma
Catrina Brown

7. Trauma, (dis)Ability, and Chronic Pain: Taking Up Sufferer-Informed Practices
Judy MacDonald, Rose Singh, Ami Goulden, and Sarah Norris

8. Birth Matters: Understanding the Impact of Birth Trauma on Women’s Well-Being
Amanda Dupupet and Laura Boileau

9. The Trauma of Homelessness: Youth on the Street
Jeff Karabanow, Andrea Titterness, Jean Hughes, Haorui Wu, and Samantha Good

10. From Generation to Generation: The Legacy of Trauma
Nachshon Siritsky

11. Intergenerational Trauma: Rising Above the Intersectional Impact of Racism and Gender on the
Health and Well-Being of African Nova Scotian Women
Barb Hamilton Hinch and Catrina Brown

12. Always Political - Indigeneity, Colonization and Trauma Work - Reclaiming Worldviews
Mareese Terare

13. Collective Care for Collective Trauma
Tanya Turton

14. Understanding the Politics of Emotion in Gendered Violence: A Feminist Critique of Trauma and Cognitivist Discourses in Research and Practice
Nicole Moulding

15. Trauma and Violence-Informed Care: A Restorative Just Response to Family Violence
Nancy Ross and Ann Schumacher

16. Men, Trauma and Gender: The Safety and Repair Approach to Address Gender Based Violence
Tod Augusta Scott

17. Male Childhood Sexual Trauma: Challenging, Deconstructing and Re-Storying Dominant Discourses
Colin James

18. How Critical Performance Pedagogy Reinvigorates Feminist Social Work
in The Context of Gendered Violence
Jean Caruthers