Childhood Trauma and the Brain

This resource is designed to help professionals and carers understand the latest neuroscience research on childhood abuse and neglect, with insights and advice from clinicians, teachers, and social workers on how to put your learning into practice.

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Childhood Trauma, the Brain and the Social World

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Childhood Trauma and the Brain: Overview

Childhood Trauma and the Brain

How latent vulnerability plays out over a child’s life

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How the Brain Adapts to Adversity

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Linking Childhood Trauma to Mental Health

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How to Promote Resilience and Recovery

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Research to Practice

Foster carers

Guidance on how foster carers can apply their understanding of science to help children and young people make sense of their experiences.

Social workers

Explore how research can inform safe caring plans and help develop new ways of thinking about difficulties.

Teachers

How teachers can apply their understanding of the threat and reward systems in the classroom and work to prevent exclusion.

Neuroscience research

How we study the brain to understand childhood trauma

Early childhood and the developing brain

What happens when relationships go wrong?

Pathways to vulnerability

Traumatic Bereavement

Research Practice Focus

Epigenetics and Mental Health: A brief guide to the research

Complex Trauma

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