Scientists found that childhood trauma can change DNA and brain development, leaving long-term biological marks.

These days, it seems like more and more people are talking about "unresolved childhood trauma," and what that can look like in adulthood. For Dr. Robyn Koslowitz, licensed school psychologist, ...

Folklore and urban legends are replete with pithy sayings and grim anecdotes expressing the belief that trauma and adversity prematurely age a person. Now we are acquiring new tools to test these ...

As many communities across the country struggle with rising violence, a team of researchers from Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health took a unique approach to better understand the experiences ...

Most recently, DSM modifications for PTSD included a subtype group for children aged younger than 6 years. 18 Research has shown when diagnostic criteria that are sensitive to child developmental ...

Reading Jackson Clark’s tribute to Tyrone Yazzie (Herald, Jan. 5), the young, Indigenous man who worked in Clark’s art gallery and died living homeless and addicted to alcohol, raised a concern for me ...

"Generational trauma" has been a buzz phrase for a few years now, as more and more adults learn that the origins of some of their own mental health problems might go much farther back than their own ...

What Are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)? Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can potentially cause trauma. ACEs aren’t specific. They can include any distressful event between birth and age 17.

Learn how to talk about trauma with children using the P-A-C-E approach. Presence, patience, and empathy, not perfection, ...