Catherine Gutfreund posted:Has anyone seen a good review or meta-analysis of ways to address childhood trauma and fostering resilience? One often sees mention of the importance of even one supportive relationship, but is this intuitive or evidence based?
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Hi Catherine, picking up on the latter element of your question, about the benefit of a supportive relationship, you may be interested in the work around the "One Good Adult" concept, that has emerged from the "My World" research in Ireland. This comes from the Headstrong Programme (now called Jigsaw). While not exclusively focused on trauma, and focused on young people rather than early years of younger children, this was research explored risk and protective factors, with a powerful protective effect shown for having a trusted adult to turn to. See http://archive.headstrong.ie/w..._Emerging-Themes.pdf and for more on the One Good Adult approach see https://www.jigsaw.ie/what-we-...aigns/one-good-adult - there were statistically significant benefits around a range of measures of poor mental health and positive mental wellbeing