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 ...

The timing of trauma determines adult behavioral outcomes like aggression or social anxiety by impacting specific ...

A new developmental theory is reshaping how experts understand the reliability of children's and adolescents' memories of traumatic events and adverse experiences. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Exposure to profound adversity in childhood, while the brain and mind are rapidly developing, can cause severe post-traumatic stress. It also can cause alterations in development that may change the ...

Children in need of child protective services (CPS) and foster care experience some of the highest levels of trauma, neglect, and abuse. Sadly, their only safety nets frequently consist of caring ...

A research team from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology), in collaboration with the ...

When Claire arrived at a women's refuge in outer Sydney with her four-year-old daughter in tow, the child was "barely able to ...

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 ...

Addressing childhood trauma is one of the most effective crime-prevention strategies available.

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 ...