This article from TIME discusses recent research linking childhood trauma with addiction and depression.

This news report from Canada, discusses the success of a program aimed at providing increased family support when children are at risk.

This study has brought together psychiatric data from almost 80 000 people and adds to the growing body of evidence that childhood adversities can lead to poor mental health outcomes in adults. This study demonstrates a correlation between childhood abuse and neglect and an increase in the risk of developing schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses in later life.

This review looks at the incidence of additional traumatic events in children who have been exposed to intimate partner violence. It looks at the impact that these traumatic events may have on the child and how these can be taken into consideration in the assessment of children. 

Read Professor Beverley Raphael & ACATLGN's statement on the recent shooting in Colorado, US. 

This article discusses some of the psychosocial responses that may be present following a tragedy. This article references the shooting in Norway in 2012. 

In a particularly wrenching irony, a gunman in Colorado chose to shoot up a movie theater packed with an audience that included children who’d come to see a film about a hero who was supposed to save everyone from danger.

This assessment has looked at alternatives to using the DSM IV criteria in the diagnosis of PTSD in early childhood.

This article highlights the impact of violence during infancy and the effectiveness of a relationship – focused treatment in addressing the traumatic consequences of exposure to violence.

New research has found a link between trauma and schizophrenia. The findings by researchers from Britain, the Netherlands and Auckland show traumatic life experiences may trigger psychotic disorders.

CAR crashes and suicides are the top two killers of young Australians, while road accidents are the main causes of adolescent deaths worldwide, researchers say.

TWO-THIRDS of people in a national study of homelessness suffered physical or sexual violence as children or had been neglected or emotionally abused. About one-third had been sexually assaulted.

NSPCC calls for much stricter assessment of children's needs and parents' problems.

This study examined the impact of interpersonal trauma exposure, such as domestic violence, in the first years of life on childhood cognitive functioning. The results of the study indicated that when a child is exposed to interpersonal trauma in early life, especially in the first 2 years of life, there may be adverse effects on cognitive development that persist into later childhood.