My husband and I both grew up in families that dealt with emotional distress through specific cultural practices - his family talks about 'black dog days' and mine about 'nervous breakdowns' - but we're raising our kids in a totally different context where these concepts don't really exist. We're struggling with how to help our daughter who's clearly struggling with something but we don't have a shared language for it anymore.
More people experience this than they realize.
Parents are finding that their inherited cultural frameworks for understanding distress don't translate to their current context, leaving them unable to effectively support their child.
“Where Are You with Cultural idioms of distress?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.