Andrew Wooyoung Kim: Thanks so much for having me. Can you start with a brief introduction about who you are and what you do. Let us know how we did with the rating or review and do share with friends and colleagues. If you’re a fan of our In Conversation series, please subscribe on your preferred streaming platform. ACAMH also produces JCPP Advances and the CAMH. The JCPP is one of the three journals produced by The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. This paper was recently published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and will be the focus of today’s conversation. Andrew is the first author of the paper ‘Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Prenatal stress predicts greater vulnerability to the psychological impacts of future stress exposure during late adolescence and early adulthood in Soweto, South Africa’. Andrew Wooyoung Kim, assistant professor in biological anthropology at the University of California. I’m Jo Carlowe, a freelance journalist with a specialism in psychology. Welcome to the In Conversation podcast series for The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health or ACAMH for short. Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Rihlat Said Mohamed, Shane A. Featured paper ‘Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Prenatal stress predicts greater vulnerability to the psychological impacts of future stress exposure during late adolescence and early adulthood in Soweto, South Africa’, (2022).His current work traces the biosocial mechanisms underlining the intergenerational mental health effects of violence from apartheid in Soweto and Johannesburg, South Africa. Kim’s research integrates biological, epidemiological, and anthropological approaches to understand how social oppression becomes embodied and produces health inequities in historically marginalized communities. He is also an Honorary Researcher at the Department of Paediatrics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.ĭr. He is a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Global Health at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, USA. Kim is an Assistant Professor in Biological Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and holds a PhD in anthropology from Northwestern University. Plus we are on Apple Podcasts visit the link or click on the icon, or scan the QR code.ĭr. Just search for ACAMH on SoundCloud, Spotify, CastBox, Deezer, Google Podcasts, Podcastaddict, JioSaavn, Listen notes, Radio Public, and (not available in the EU). Subscribe to ACAMH mental health podcasts on your preferred streaming platform. With maternal age and past household adversity having been found to have an impact, Andrew also elaborates on these findings and their implications.įurthermore, Andrew shares what the implications are of his findings for CAMH professionals, and comments on what role we should all be playing in recognising and addressing the ongoing legacies of colonialism, structural violence, and historical traumas, such as apartheid, in order to prevent future mental health inequities from emerging. Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Assistant Professor in biological anthropology at the University of California.Īndrew is the first author of the J ournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP) paper ‘ Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Prenatal stress predicts greater vulnerability to the psychological impacts of future stress exposure during late adolescence and early adulthood in Soweto, South Africa’ ( doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13672), which is the focus of today’s podcast.Īndrew sets the scene by providing a brief introduction of how he came to be interested in this area of research, before turning to the paper itself and sharing a brief overview of the paper.Īndrew discusses the methodology used, including the challenges faced during the data collection, and shares the main findings from the paper.Īndrew then expands upon two interesting findings the first being the finding that social support did not moderate the association between prenatal stress and psychiatric outcomes, and the second being that the prenatal stress exposure during apartheid is not directly associated with greater psychiatric morbidity during late adolescence.
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