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Learning from trauma

Keeping up with research on life adversity and what we can learn from it

16th May, 2026

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?

5th June, 2025

Dropout: maltreatment research's arch enemy 

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

22nd March, 2026

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

1st April, 2025

Who suffers from adversity the most? 

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

2nd December, 2025

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?

15th December, 2024

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?