One of the areas in which social workers can operate in is different forms of treatment, investigation and prevention work with youth that live in particularly vulnerable and urban areas. Areas in which the average income is lower in comparison to other areas, and areas that tend to be predominantly inhabited by ethnic minorities. These areas are particularly prone to gang crime and community violence. Thus affecting the overall safety of its inhabitants, in particular the youth population living there. The purpose of the present work is to investigate the connections that research has drawn attention to between community violence in particularly vulnerable areas and trauma reactions/signs of trauma among the young people who live in these areas by using the methodological approach of a literature study. The study seeks to understand found connections using psychological resilience theory and postcolonial theory. Findings of this study shows that as a result of living in areas particularly prone to community violence, a large proportion of youth are exposed to higher levels of community violence in various forms. Said exposure is also connected to certain symptoms of trauma, as well as other types of psychological distress. The results are connected to structural factors of a postcolonial society in which certain groups of people have no choice but to remain in the harmful area that they reside in. Resilience is valued, approached and defined differently in the studies that have been used in this work, but the overall result shows that it is a significant protective factor for youth that are exposed to community violence.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-66503 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Youssefi, Mariam, Edrud, Thea |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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