Parent Psychotherapy doesn’t just heal emotional wounds — it repairs a biological process that could benefit kids for life.

UCSF review is the largest to distill how stress affects all areas of a child’s health, starting in the womb through adolescence.

In trauma-impacted families, stress is contagious, but so is calm. Learn how awareness and repair help families slow down.

Decades after a landmark study showed the lasting health effects of such trauma, researchers are finding ways to guard ...

In her book It’s Not You, It’s What Happened to You, my friend and colleague Dr. Christine Courtois writes, “Trauma is any event or experience (including witnessing) that is physically and/or ...

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When a parent suffered trauma as a child, their kids are affected. Trauma in childhood echoes through generations, according to new research that could have implications for thousands of migrant ...

Mothers' childhood experiences of trauma can predict their children's behavior problems, even when the mothers did not raise their children, who were placed for adoption as newborns, a new University ...

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 ...