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5 Ways Trauma And Poverty Affect Childhood Development

By Nicole F. Roberts — 2020

Although children are born ready to learn and grow, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur in youth resulting in toxic stress. And that toxic stress from ACEs can literally change how the brain develops and affect how the body responds to stress as one ages.

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Monnica Williams: The Experience of Racism Is an Assault on Mental Health

My guest on the show today is Dr. Monnica T. Williams, certified licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor at the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. Monnica is researching how PTSD symptoms can result from racism and what racial trauma and race-based trauma look like.

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Why Children Struggling with Mental Health Say Stigma Can Be Deadly

A new documentary produced by our colleagues at Milwaukee PBS in collaboration with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel follows four young people from Wisconsin who are navigating mental health challenges.

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A Practical Guide to Mental Health Problems in Children with Autistic Spectrum: It’s Not Just Their Autism!

Exploring the relationship between ASD and mental health difficulties, this book offers practical guidance to help parents and professionals recognise and handle co-morbid conditions, and dispels the myth that they are just a part of autism.

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Poverty and Economic Inequality