Etiology and treatment of post-cumulative traumatic stress disorders in different cultures.

Developments in the theories of identity, culture, and traumatology enrich our cross-cultural understanding of mental health dynamics, case conceptualization, and developing effective intervention models to help victims of complex and cumulative traumas especially in different cultures and minority populations. Identity traumas, along with preidentity and nonidentity traumas, contribute to forming cultures. On the other hand, cultures may contribute to delivering some types of culture- and social-made serious traumatic conditions that can be transferred cross-generationally, such as poverty and caste systems. Most current interventions are designed to help with single trauma and ignore the cumulative trauma dynamics as well the collective identity and culture-specific traumas. This understanding entails revising our culturally limited and single-trauma-based interventions to help clients who belong to different cultures or to minority victims of culture- and social-made traumas as well as those who are vi...