06/01/2018 by Anna Stagg, MEd, PhD & Amanda NeMoyer, J.D., Ph.D.
Childhood physical and/or sexual abuse—something more than 100,000 youth in the United States have experienced—has been observed to detrimentally impact youth across biological, psychological, and social domains, and may lead to posttraumatic stress and trauma
06/01/2018 by Chris Sexton, PhD, MSW, and Briana Woods-Jaeger, PhD, MS
Toxic stress resulting from chronic exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including trauma exposure, parent mental health problems, and family dysfunction, can lead to numerous health, social, and behavioral problems throughout the lifespan (Anda et al., 2006).
06/01/2018 by Scott Janssen
Written during the slaughter of the Peloponnesian War which engulfed the Greek world in the fifth century BCE, Euripides’ play The Trojan Women is one of the most unsparing pieces of anti-war literature ever written.