Education as Catalyst for Intergenerational Refugee Family Communication About War and Trauma

@article{Lin2009EducationAC,
  title={Education as Catalyst for Intergenerational Refugee Family Communication About War and Trauma},
  author={Nancy J. Lin and Karen L. Suyemoto and Peter Nien‐chu Kiang},
  journal={Communication Disorders Quarterly},
  year={2009},
  volume={30},
  pages={195 - 207}
}
This article describes influences on intergenerational communication within refugee families about sociocultural trauma and explores how education may positively affect this communication process. Drawing on qualitative research and grounded theory through a larger study concerning intergenerational effects of and communication about trauma in Cambodian American refugee families, this article highlights ways that education may contribute to healing broken narratives within refugee families… 
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