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In many animals, including humans, adverse events in youth have lasting negative health effects over the life span. But new research suggests something different is going on in mountain gorillas.
The impact of early childhood trauma on lifelong physical and mental health makes it urgent to invest in programs to support healthy pregnancies and stable, caring very early childhoods.
Multiple difficult childhood experiences can lead to depression and anxiety during college, research has found. Lack of support often makes things worse.
Parents can take a page from psychological research on trauma and recovery to help kids struggling with pandemic life.
The pandemic response has put the long-term health and well-being of children and adolescents at risk, with the possibility of seismic shifts in population health if we do not act.
We like to think there’s a silver lining to tragedy – and this may be influencing both how studies on post-traumatic growth are constructed and how subjects are responding.
The College Board is adding a new ‘adversity score’ to the SAT to take students’ socioeconomic backgrounds into account. Will the move correct long-standing disparities in the college entrance exam?
Paying to get your kids into prestigious universities is an example of a ‘bulldozer parenting’ trend, which reduces exposure to failure and can lead to mental health difficulties.
Childhood adversity is linked to social and mental health problems later in life. New research suggests brains that aren’t as good at recognizing rewards and responding to change may be to blame.
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Assistant professor, School of Psychology, Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University
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Research and Knowledge Translation Facilitator, University of British Columbia
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Associate Dean for Equity and Justice, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Wake Forest University
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Canada Research Chair in Social Epigenetics and Professor, UBC Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia
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Research Manager, Healthy Starts Theme, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute; Steering Committee Member, Social Exposome Research Cluster, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine
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Professor of Human Development and Family Science, Oklahoma State University
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Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Oklahoma State University
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Professor of Sociology, Texas State University
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Professor Emeritus in Clinical and Health Psychology, University of British Columbia
