By Jenara Nerenberg — 2017
Our political and social systems don't support fundamental human needs, says Gabor Mate—which affects our ability to deal with traumatic events.
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As California’s first surgeon general, Nadine Burke Harris, MPH ’02, is carrying out the visionary agenda she has brought to medical care: finding the roots of disease in childhood adversity and treating the long-term consequences.
Children who experience adversity tend to have health problems later in life. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris explains why—and how we can help heal those wounds.
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When physicians help patients come to the profound revelation that childhood adversity plays a role in the chronic illnesses they face now, they help them to heal physically and emotionally at last.
Dr Gabor Maté is a renowned expert in addiction, childhood trauma and mind-body health.
Cultivating insight can help caregivers build resilience to loss.
Includes Frequently Asked Questions about how to communicate and cope.
The psychiatry professor on the polyvagal theory he developed to understand our reactions to trauma.
Cutting-edge research tells us that experiencing childhood emotional trauma can play a large role in whether we develop physical disease in adulthood. In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the growing scientific link between childhood adversity and adult physical disease.
Some people who have to be responsible for their siblings or parents as children grow up to be compulsive caretakers.
How do you know when it’s time to take your autistic, bipolar twelve-year-old daughter to the psych ward?