Background Chronic and/or extreme stress in early life, often referred to as early adversity,
childhood trauma, or early life stress, has been associated with a wide range of adverse …

We review the three prevailing approaches—specificity, cumulative risk, and dimensional
models—to conceptualizing the developmental consequences of early-life adversity and …

Two extant frameworks–the harshness-unpredictability model and the threat-deprivation
model–attempt to explain which dimensions of adversity have distinct influences on …

" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

Climate change is a major global public-health challenge that will have wide-ranging
impacts on human psychological health and well-being. Children and adolescents are at …

Childhood adversity is a major risk factor for multiple forms of psychopathology, and recent
efforts have focused on understanding the underlying psychological mechanisms. One …

Background Although a very heterogeneous group, adopted persons may present
developmental and mental health problems of varying severity. Pre-placement adversity and …

Childhood maltreatment is associated with significant, enduring risk of psychiatric disorder.
In this paper, we review how neurocognitive alterations after maltreatment might indirectly …

Adversity early in life is common and is a major risk factor for the onset of psychopathology.
Delineating the neurodevelopmental pathways by which early adversity affects mental …

Emerging evidence suggests that partially distinct mechanisms may underlie the association
between different dimensions of early life adversity (ELA) and psychopathology in children …