In this episode, Dr Felicity Cooksey speaks to Dr Kate McCann about adverse childhood experiences. Dr Kate McCann is a community child health consultant and member of the Trauma Informed Strategy Group in Somerset.
We discuss how adverse childhood experiences may impact a child’s development and the importance of recognising and responding to childhood trauma.
Music by AlexGrohl from Pixabay
Recommended Resources:
TED Talks
• Dr Nadine Burke Harris – TED talk: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime.
• Molly Wright- TED talk: How Every Child Can Thrive by Five
Articles
• Felitti VJ, Anda RF, Nordenberg D, Williamson DF, Spitz AM, Edwards V, Koss MP, Marks JS. Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. Am J Prev Med. 1998 May;14(4):245-58.
• Nelson CA, Scott RD, Bhutta ZA, Harris NB, Danese A, Samara M. Adversity in childhood is linked to mental and physical health throughout life. BMJ. 2020 Oct 28;371:m3048.
Books
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
• The Deepest Well by Dr Nadine Burke Harris
• Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnet
Websites
• The Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Available at https://www.bucharestearlyinterventionproject.org/
• Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University https://developingchild.harvard.edu/
• EHCAP- Mindful Emotion Coaching https://mindfulemotioncoaching.co.uk/
• UK trauma council https://uktraumacouncil.org/
• Oxford Brain Story https://www.oxfordbrainstory.org/
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