Trauma as a Social Justice Issue: Foundational KnowledgeTrauma is political. By political, we mean it is shaped by power. Power acts along various axes (e.g., race, class, gender, disability) to create differential access to the "privilege" of being considered a human being who deserves safety, food, housing, respect, justice, autonomy, and pleasure. The intersections of these axes produces oppression of increasing intensity in school psychology and beyond. Oppression is tied to trauma in that it contributes to different probabilities of both exposure to traumatic events and access to proper support to heal the traumatic wounds (Gelkopf, 2018)
Sabnis, S. V., Sullivan, A. L., Yohannan, J., Karner, K., & Gutierrez, S. (2021). Trauma as a Social Justice Issue: Foundational Knowledge. Communique, 50(3), 1+. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A682250533/PROF?u=la74598&sid=bookmark-PROF&xid=ab04d256