Conclusions and Future Directions

The preceding thirty-eight chapters represent a pioneering effort to portray a comprehensive picture of the "state of the art" in the study ofmultigenerational transmission oftrauma. The goal of this book is to map the international landscape of this emerging field by bringing together the work of different scholars/researchers from around the world. This volume reveals how they view, understand, and conceptualize the multigenerationallegacies of trauma of multiple populations and places their findings within the multidimensional, multidisciplinary, integrative (TCMI) framework (see the Introduction). For some of these populations, this is the first time such issues have appeared in print.