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Bay Area Study Finds Early Childhood Trauma Therapy Can Prevent Serious Disease
August 2024 | KQED
A new study finds that child-parent psychotherapy (CPP), a dyadic psychosocial intervention, helps young children overcome early childhood trauma and has the potential to prevent serious disease later in life by slowing down the rapid aging of the body's cells. Read the full research article in Psychological Science.
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Adverse Childhood Experiences: Health Care Utilizations and Expenditures in Adulthood
July 2024 | HealthAffairs
Provides the first nationally representative estimates of ACEs-related health care utilization and expenditure differences based on direct observation, rather than model-based extrapolation. Finds that the aggregate spending difference across the 157.6 million US adults with ACEs was $292 billion in 2021.
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Development and Validation of a Trauma-Informed Care Communication Skills Assessment Tool
July 2024 | Academic Pediatrics
Finds that the Gap Kalamazoo Communication Skills Assessment Form for Trauma-Informed Care demonstrates strong preliminary validity and offers educators a valuable means to assess and provide formative feedback to pediatric trainees about trauma-informed care.
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The Well-Being of Young Adults: The Implications of Multi-Type Child Maltreatment and the Mediating Role of Betrayal Trauma
July 2024 | Child Abuse & Neglect
Findings show that the extent of child maltreatment experienced, one's sense of betrayal, and the relationship of the child/adolescent to the perpetrator can influence well-being experienced during young adulthood.
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Beneficial Effects of Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Hippocampal Volumes and Episodic Memory for Childhood Adversity Survivors
April 2024 | Journal of Affective Disorders
Investigates the effects of Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI) on subiculum volumes among ACEs survivors, as well as the effects on episodic memory as a probe into hippocampal functionality.
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