Communal Mastery could be applied to the NZ context as it embraces the Maori way of doing things
The article Coping with Trauma Communally Reduces PTSD Risk Provides us with additional evidence of the importance of investigating and using "Communal Mastery" to address not just PTSD in women but the possibility of addressing many issues that we addressed individually in the past.
You see, as individuals, we face harm from others and from our environment.
It, therefore, follows that if we want to address that harm, we need to include others and the environment in the solutions.
You cannot heal the system effectively by only healing each person, individually.
What is needed is to do both at the same time
Heal the individual and heal the system using upstream thinking and actions
Synopsis:
Results suggest that Black and Latina women who cope with trauma by engaging with their community experience less severe PTSD symptoms.
The results of a recent study published in Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology suggest that the communal mastery of Black and Latina women may protect against the development of PTSD symptoms. By communal mastery, the researchers refer to a community-oriented way of coping where people can manage life difficulties through attachments with family, friends, neighbors, and significant others.
“How women cope with trauma exposure in an important factor affecting psychopathology risk and recovery. However, research has historically focused on individualistic coping behaviors while more communal or collectivist coping styles have seldom been explored,” the authors, led by psychologist Michelle Miller, write.
“Ethnic and racial minority woman may benefit from greater efficacy-through-social attachments, and exploring this avenue of coping offers a dimensionality to understanding coping processes of populations often underrepresented in research.”
By José G. Luiggi-Hernández -August 18, 2021
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