The damage done by childhood abuse — and new insights into recovery [ProvidenceJournal.com]

Samantha Sangenito 1/19/164:00 AM

A landmark study of the lasting and destructive effects of childhood trauma provides guidance with the potential to significantly improve the well-being of untold millions of people who have been, or will be, abused, neglected or similarly harmed. And the financial savings could be dramatic.

"The implications are revolutionary," says David S. Lauterbach, a trauma expert who is president and CEO of the Kent Center, in Warwick. "When you think about the long-term permutations, it boggles the mind. So many of the issues that we’re facing as a world have to do with the damage that we’ve done to human beings and to developing brains."

[For more of this story, written by G. Wayne Miller, go to http://www.providencejournal.c...60116/NEWS/160119305]

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