SAN ANTONIO – Signs of trauma and stress can show up differently depending on age. Younger children may react differently from older children or teens. Trauma often occurs when children experience or ...

Firefly’s resources vary by case, offering educational resources and mental health services intended to help families and ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Studies estimate that up to 90% of children in foster care have experienced trauma, ...

Children in foster care are among the most vulnerable and underserved populations in the education system. They experience higher rates of trauma, placement instability, learning gaps, and emotional ...

Most research on the health effects of stress focuses on adults, but a new review looks at how stress uniquely affects ...

FOR DECADES, Martin Teicher, M.D., Ph.D., has investigated the impact of trauma on the developing brain. He is currently an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, where he ...

Psychology Assistant Professor Sarah Merrill studies the chemical tags that trauma and other adverse experiences can leave on children’s genes – and whether interventions can buffer the effects of ...

Trauma is a very isolated event, which tends to affect the individual who faces adversity. The new research however suggests that trauma in the firstborn child might have a profoundly lasting effect ...

When I heard about how the Trump administration is trying to freeze federal spending on social services, the first thing I started to worry about was how this would affect the kids in the foster care ...