Psychologists, pediatricians, neuroscientists, among others, all know from their various research studies that childhood adversity can have profound, deleterious effects on a person developmentally, not only psychologically, but physically as well.
First, let’s define childhood adversity. The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child considers three types of stress responses (this is not about the actual stressors themselves) in young children: positive, tolerable and toxic responses. The last relates to childhood adversity.
[For more of this story, written by Kayta Gajdos, go to http://chaddsfordlive.com/2014...adversity-prolonged/]
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