ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a case study of a 16-year old girl suffering from transgenerational trauma. It explains how social constructionism might serve as an incubator for transgenerational trauma. The composite reality of a society is established and maintained through social interactions; who is listened to, who is ignored, who is honored, and who is chastised. To effectively join a family and be a true instrument of intervention, one must reflect on their own implicit prejudices and constructs. Accessing and connecting with an LGBTQ community is harder for rural areas where people are more spread out geographically and politically. Rural social work requires specific skills and cultural humility. Social constructionist theory contends that each person’s truth is different, a sum of all experiences that the person has had, as well as similar in that the perception of these experiences is shaped by social context.
