Seminar on ' Immigrants with Trauma: From Risk to Resilience '. RESCHEDULED to March 2

On February 28 a research seminar from the series 'Culture Matters' will be held at HSE. The event is organised by HSE Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research. Tomas Jurcik, Assistant Professor at HSE Faculty of Social Sciences, will speak on 'Immigrants with Trauma: From Risk to Resilience'.

Absract:

A large proportion of immigrants report having experienced exposure to trauma although only a minority go on to develop post-traumatic stress disorder. The following presentation explores preliminary findings from a pilot study of visible minority immigrants with lived trauma experiences residing in Montreal, Canada (N=92). It examines potential risk and protective variables including social-interactional (social support, acculturation, and discrimination), social-ecological (perceived ethnic density), and personality factors, in relation to post-traumatic symptoms, general distress and well-being. Partly consistent with our previous research on the acculturation-social ecology match model, heritage acculturation interacted with ethnic density in predicting well-being. However, traumatic stress symptoms were predicted by personality, but not significantly by perceptions of ethnic density. Theoretical and clinical implications, as well as limitations, will be discussed.   

Working language: English

Start time: 15.00

Address: 46 B Volgogradsky prospekt, room 210A