Consider Ethan and Kevin (their names are pseudonyms to protect their privacy), two children that I worked with as an ...

Dissociative identity disorder is often rooted in chronic childhood trauma. Repeated abuse, neglect, and attachment disruptions can fragment a growing mind. Healing is possible.

A new study reveals a connection between early life trauma and adult brain aging. Adults reporting severe childhood stress ...

The Center for Child Counseling hosted a "Lead The Fight" luncheon at The Breakers. Guest speaker Benjamin Perks, a UNICEF global advocate, discussed ending child trauma and maltreatment. Perks ...

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 ...

Each year between 200,000 and 270,000 children and youth enter foster care placements with child welfare services, and many more children receive child welfare services while remaining in their parent ...

Experiencing multiple childhood traumas doesn't just increase the risk of a single addiction. A new study suggests it creates ...

Further explanation regarding a victim’s altered self-misconception and of his or her surroundings, is the occurrence of flashbacks, which are conscious or unconscious recollections of abuse triggered ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Zlatina Kostova, a clinical psychologist at the University of Massachusetts, about the trauma children experience when living through war. Zlatina Kostova is a clinical ...

A father struggling with painful memories from his parents’ divorce now worries that his wife’s frequent yelling at their 4-year-old daughter could create the same kind of lasting emotional wounds he ...