Oonagh Coleman

Profile photo of Oonagh Coleman
Oonagh has recently completed her PhD at the Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. Her mixed methods research explores pathways of risk and resilience following childhood trauma, focusing on memory and the subjective experience in the development of trauma-related psychopathology.

Website

Follow me here –

Can preventing childhood maltreatment reduce depression?

No Responses »
Profile photo of Oonagh Coleman
Posted by
Sad little boy with autistic disorder sitting near wall. Banner for design

Researchers pulled together evidence from more than half a million people to test a simple but important idea: if childhood maltreatment raises the risk of adult depression, could reducing maltreatment help prevent it? The answer, as always, is more complicated than it first appears.

[read the full story...]