Adverse childhood experiences can lead to a number of harmful outcomes throughout an
individual's life, ranging from medical problems to criminal behavior. These traumatic …

ABSTRACT A growing body of research links childhood experiences of abuse and neglect
with serious life‐long problems including depression, suicide, alcoholism and drug abuse …

Since Kempe's (Kempe, Silverman, Steele, Droegemueller, & Silver, 1962) groundbreaking
work called attention to the battered child syndrome, research designed to document the …

Exposure to family and community violence is linked with aggression, depression,
posttraumatic stress symptoms, and academic and cognitive difficulties. It has the potential to …

Complex trauma is a two-pronged concept, emphasizing the interconnection between
exposure to traumatic experiences and their disruptive effects on normative youth …

Each year, exposure to violent trauma takes its toll on the development of millions of
children. When their trauma goes unaddressed, children are at greater risk for school failure; …

Each year in the United States approximately five million children experience some form of
traumatic experience. More than two million of these are victims of physical and/or sexual …

Childhood exposure to violence, and resultant traumatic dysregulation pose immediate and
long-term threats to individual development and to public health. Recognizing the …

T here is no question that experiences of violence and maltreatment adversely and
enduringly alter neurobiological development, psychological and social functioning, and …

This article describes some of the current research and thinking about developmental
pathways leading to youth violence and the risk and protective factors that play a …