Maltreatment such as neglect and abuse are types of adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs. But they often say little about ...

A study of 13-year-olds in Portugal found that children exposed to selected adverse experiences by 10 years of age tend to ...

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 ...

Psychotherapy sessions with caregivers may help prevent serious disease later in life for young children who have experienced significant trauma, a new UC San Francisco study found. Past research has ...

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 ...

Many adults grew up in dysfunctional homes without realizing how much it impacted them. Learn why family trauma is hard 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 ...