How to Reduce the Impact of Childhood Trauma [greatergood.berkeley.edu]
When Dr. Nadine Burke Harris set up the Bayview Child Health Center in 2007, she immediately noticed an association between traumatic experiences and health outcomes in the children she treated. “Day after day I saw infants who were listless and had strange rashes,” she writes in her new book, The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity . “Kids just entering middle school had depression. And in unique cases…kids weren’t even growing.” Often, she discovered, these...