Parents often want to give their children what they never had. But unresolved trauma can shape parenting in ways we don’t ...

Child trauma experts have urged MPs to back an immediate social media ban for under-16s to protect vulnerable children.

Key points Caregivers of children with mental illness often endure a type of trauma that is rarely discussed. Fear for their children's safety and future can leave them in a constant state of fight-or ...

Experts say adults can help children cope with the latest conflict in the Middle East by making time for conversations, ...

The unique symptoms of PTSD in youth, and treatments specific to children after trauma. Exploring how PTSD looks different in children than in adults, what factors contribute to trauma’s long-term ...

Traumatic experiences can have ripple effects that permeate across many aspects of people's lives. For students, adverse childhood experiences have been shown to impact attention, memory, language ...

Each year between 200,000 and 270,000 children and youth enter foster care placements with child welfare services, and many more children receive child welfare services while remaining in their parent ...

The catastrophic Camp Fire roared through Northern California’s Butte County in 2018, charring the landscape, taking 86 lives and destroying countless homes and habitats in the town of Paradise. The ...

When a parent suffered trauma as a child, their kids are affected. Trauma in childhood echoes through generations, according to new research that could have implications for thousands of migrant ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Zlatina Kostova, a clinical psychologist at the University of Massachusetts, about the trauma children experience when living through war. Zlatina Kostova is a clinical ...

Going to court can be—and often is—traumatic for adults, and even more so for children. For some child clients it may be momentarily distressing, while others experience its effects as more ...

Children initially treated at trauma centers with the highest level of preparedness to care for children, called pediatric readiness, are significantly less likely to die than those initially treated ...