Learning from trauma

Blog posts about research on life adversity and what we can learn from it

Is emotional abuse the most impactful type of maltreatment?

Quite often research ranks emotional abuse as the most "significant" or most "impactful" category of abuse. Should we focus on eradicating it first?

Dropout: maltreatment researcher's arch enemy

Longitudinal cohorts are the gold standard of understanding what the lives of maltreatment children look like. Easier said than done though.

What can we learn from research that looks at many traumatic experiences at once?

A blog post about the limitations of research that wants to do look at many different types of adversity all at once

Who suffers from adversity the most?

A reflection on prediction models and how useful they are for screening in a medical setting.

The promise of trauma-informed care: how far along are we?

The moonshot goal of trauma research is to provide an evidence base, which can be used to improve therapeutic treatment. How well has our research agenda progressed?

How does adversity result in psychopathology?

Investigating mechanisms in theory allow us to block the effects of adversity. How are those investigations done in practice?