title: Advantages of stress process approaches for measuring historical trauma.
abstract: Despite growing attention to historical trauma (HT) as a key mechanism for documented Indigenous health disparities like alcohol abuse, the complexities of conceptualizing and measuring HT-related constructs have limited empirical tests of these relationships. In this article, we review the current evidence surrounding one HT measure: the Historical Loss Scale. In addition, we provide examples of the benefits of treating historical cultural losses as stressors within sociological and Indigenous stress process models of health.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biobehavioral Health & Population Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School-Duluth , Duluth, MN 55812-3031, USA. mlwalls@d.umn.edu
authors.forename: Melissa L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Walls
authors.forename: Les B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Whitbeck
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology