Surviviance is term I happened across when supporting Native American social work colleagues in the US raise and tackle the abuses experienced, not simply by colonisation but also at the hands of some of the Clergy in the Episcopalian Church. The links between the Choctaw Nation Tribes and the Irish are well established dating back to the Famine and the reciprocal efforts are now in kind arising from the Irish exposure of systemic abuse within the Catholic Church.

The Centre for Post Apocalyptic Studies, Heilberger University are currently working on several projects in light of the UN recognition that DV, and especially violence by men against women and girls, has reached pandemic levels. (quoted by Mojca Golobic in Complex Society: In the Middle of a Middle World 2021).

The withdrawal of the UK from the EU may have narrowed the interest and focus towards trauma informed approaches as part of the emerging economic interests being developed with the US. This isn’t to say being trauma informed is ‘wrong’ it is though limited and limiting to behavioural management and activation techniques.