How Social Services Address Intergenerational Trauma for Healing Families

The Emotional Algorithm · Nov 5, 2026 · 1m

You know, I’ve been thinking a lot about how pain and struggles don’t just affect one person—they ripple through entire families, sometimes for generations. This is what social services are starting to pay way more attention to: addressing generational trauma. Whether it’s called intergenerational trauma, inherited trauma, ancestral trauma, or transgenerational trauma, the idea is that emotional wounds from the past don’t stay put—they pass down through family lines, impacting people’s lives today.

So, imagine a family where trauma—maybe from things like abuse, neglect, systemic racism, or…