Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds...
Nadine Burke Harris’ healthcare practice focuses on a little-understood, yet very common factor in childhood that can profoundly impact adult-onset disease: trauma.
when I talk to people about screening for ACEs and responding early with evidence-based care people say, ‘Well, you can't screen for ACEs because there aren't enough licensed therapists for everyone who has experienced trauma.’ So, okay, is the answer just to leave people with no plan?