How Childhood Trauma Can Physically Damage The Developing Brain: And How These Effects Can Be Reversed

by David Hosier

Sadly, severe childhood trauma can actually physically affect brain development which can adversely affect how we feel and behave for years, or decades afterwards. Fortunately, however, due to the brain's ability to continue to physically alter itself during our adult lives (due to a phenomenon known as 'neuroplasticity') it is possible for the brain to recover.

This book examines how childhood trauma can harm our brain, together with how this harm can be undone.
Contents

1) Neurological Effects : How Childhood Trauma Can Damage The Developing Physical Brain

2) Childhood Trauma, Stress And The Vulnerable Developing Brain.

3) Why Adolescence Is A Time Of High Vulnerability

4) Effects Of Lack Of Emotional Security In Childhood

5) Harmful Effects Of Poverty On Early Brain Development

6) How Neurological Problems Relating To Childhood Trauma Can Be Addressed

7) How The Brain Can 'Rewire' Itself (Neuroplasticity)

8) The Brain, Neuroscience And Meditation

9) Finding Optimism And Positive Moods : The Neuroscience. Part 1

10) Finding Optimism And Positive Moods : The Neuroscience. Part

11) Specific Ways In Which The Physical Brain Can Recover From Severe Trauma.

95 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 25, 2014

About the author

David Hosier MSc is a psychologist who holds two degrees (BSc Hons and MSc) and a post graduate diploma in education (all three qualifications are in psychology).He also holds UK QTS(Qualified Teacher Status). He has worked as a teacher, lecturer and researcher. His own experiences of severe childhood trauma and its emotional fallout motivated him to set up the website childhoodtraumarecovery.com for which he exclusively writes articles. He has published two books: 'The Devastating Effects of Childhood Trauma' and 'Therapies For The Effects Of Childhood Trauma.' He will also be publishing a novel in early 2014. He was educated at the University of London, Goldsmith's College.