Employment of trauma informed principles in the Palabras Fuertes project: Implications for narrative research with older Latinx communities
In the US, there is a growing number of older Latinx communities. Qualitative approaches such as narrative inquiry may be fruitful endeavors to elucidate their lived experiences. However, older Latinx communities, including sexual minorities, are disproportionately exposed to social, health, and his...
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| description | In the US, there is a growing number of older Latinx communities. Qualitative approaches such as narrative inquiry may be fruitful endeavors to elucidate their lived experiences. However, older Latinx communities, including sexual minorities, are disproportionately exposed to social, health, and historical challenges that may result in exposure to potentially traumatic events (e.g. discrimination, illness, grief, etc.). The recognition of high rates of exposure to potentially traumatic events among participants has led to the recommended adoption of Trauma Informed (TI) principles for use in non-trauma specific research. At present, there are limited examples and discussions about the implementation of TI principles in qualitative research and our literature review yielded no discussion of the use of TI principles in narrative inquiry or with older Latinx communities. In this manuscript, we advocate for the adoption of TI principles when engaging in narrative inquiry with older Latinx adults. Second, we discuss examples of TI guided practices we employed while conducting the Palabras Fuertes study of life history narratives with older Latino immigrant gay men living in New York City. Finally, based on these experiences, we provide recommendations for incorporating TI into future narrative research with older Latinx communities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d6a494c34f334557a1d971f0ac7a591d2023-11-30T12:03:54ZengSAGE PublishingMethodological Innovations2059-79912023-11-011610.1177/20597991231202866Employment of trauma informed principles in the Palabras Fuertes project: Implications for narrative research with older Latinx communitiesDavid Camacho0Anindita Bhattacharya1Kiara Moore2Maria P Aranda3Ellen P Lukens4Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USASchool of Social Work & Criminal Justice, University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, USASilver School of Social Work, New York University, New York, NY, USAUSC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USASchool of Social Work, Columbia University, New York, NY, USAIn the US, there is a growing number of older Latinx communities. Qualitative approaches such as narrative inquiry may be fruitful endeavors to elucidate their lived experiences. However, older Latinx communities, including sexual minorities, are disproportionately exposed to social, health, and historical challenges that may result in exposure to potentially traumatic events (e.g. discrimination, illness, grief, etc.). The recognition of high rates of exposure to potentially traumatic events among participants has led to the recommended adoption of Trauma Informed (TI) principles for use in non-trauma specific research. At present, there are limited examples and discussions about the implementation of TI principles in qualitative research and our literature review yielded no discussion of the use of TI principles in narrative inquiry or with older Latinx communities. In this manuscript, we advocate for the adoption of TI principles when engaging in narrative inquiry with older Latinx adults. Second, we discuss examples of TI guided practices we employed while conducting the Palabras Fuertes study of life history narratives with older Latino immigrant gay men living in New York City. Finally, based on these experiences, we provide recommendations for incorporating TI into future narrative research with older Latinx communities.https://doi.org/10.1177/20597991231202866 |
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| title | Employment of trauma informed principles in the Palabras Fuertes project: Implications for narrative research with older Latinx communities |
| title_full | Employment of trauma informed principles in the Palabras Fuertes project: Implications for narrative research with older Latinx communities |
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| title_short | Employment of trauma informed principles in the Palabras Fuertes project: Implications for narrative research with older Latinx communities |
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