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

Winchell struggled after an abusive childhood and living with bipolar disorder, which he wasn't diagnosed with until his 60s ...

Trauma can leave lasting scars. Research shows that people who experience childhood trauma have an increased risk of depression, anxiety, heart disease, diabetes and even some forms of cancer. More ...

The heart remembers, at least when it comes to Black women who experience trauma or abuse as children, according to newly released research by Emory University. Childhood exposure to trauma, emotional ...

Psychologists observe that seemingly innocuous phrases like "it was fine" often mask childhood trauma. This minimizing ...

Childhood trauma can include witnessing death, experiencing severe injury, and physical or sexual violence. Over 81% of Brazilian youth had experienced trauma by age 18. Trauma was potentially ...

Somhairlín Ó Cearbhaill, 33, was born into trauma, quite literally. The daughter of Irish immigrants who struggled with addiction, she came into the world with hearing, learning, and physical ...

This post is part of a series on adverse childhood experiences. Read the other parts here. “There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.” —Zora Neale Hurston The psychologist James ...

Experts highlight key risk factors for traumatic stress after childbirth and outline practical steps that clinicians can take ...

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 ...