Childhood Adversity: The Impact of Childhood Maltreatment on Mental Health

What's Included

• Introduction to the topic of childhood adversity in the form of abuse and neglect and its impact on a young person’s well-being;
• Clinical perspective on the challenges that young people face who experienced early adversity;
• Clinical perspective on how this affects the ability to form trusting relationships later in life.
• A neuroscientific perspective on how early adverse experiences can change biological systems such as the brain in an attempt to adapt to the situation;
• An introduction to the latest research implicating changes in threat processing and memory after childhood maltreatment in young people exposed to adversity;
• A neuroscientific perspective on how such changes can be seen as adaptations to the adverse situations (Latent Vulnerability).