Childhood adversity Blog Posts

• Persistent poverty and adversity drives youth weapon-carrying and police contact

  03 Mar 2026

  • Andy Bell

  
• Ketamine, depression and childhood trauma: new evidence from a community study

  29 Sep 2025

  • Alexis An Yee Low

  
• The scars that shape the mind: childhood adversity and the risk of psychosis

  22 Jul 2025

  • Jennifer Murphy

  
• Tackling social determinants will reduce the global mental health burden: mega-blog of current prevention strategies

  27 Jun 2025

  • Xiaolin Guo
  • and Nina Higson-Sweeney

  
• Prevention is where it’s at for children and young people’s mental health

  18 Dec 2024

  • Beth Cumber

  
• Adverse childhood experiences: how common are they and who is most at risk?

  15 Jan 2024

  • Rebecca Lacey
  • and Sarah Stock

  
• We need a whole system approach to tackling early childhood inequality: new research on health and educational outcomes in adolescence

  16 Aug 2023

  • Huong Le

  
• Parental mental illness a key risk factor for offspring mental illness: new evidence from Australia

  06 Jun 2023

  • Francesca Zecchinato

  
• Is trauma a transdiagnostic risk for mental health problems? Recent umbrella meta-analysis suggests yes

  02 Jun 2023

  • Megan Bailey

  
• Is complex trauma associated with worse outcomes than non-complex trauma?

  27 Oct 2022

  • Rudo Dube