Cybersynapse Podcast: Episode 3

The long term impact of negative childhood experiences

20 NOVEMBER 2017 / Insight

“The film is a documentary highlighting ground-breaking research about the impact of ACEs on children throughout their whole lives. ACEs are traumatic situations and events in a child’s life which can have long-term negative effects on their health and well-being. As well as all forms of abuse and neglect, ACEs include experiences such as parental substance misuse, parental mental health problems or having a parent or carer in prison. The film beautifully crafts together statistics and first-hand testimony.”

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Family therapy for anorexia: can it create closeness and containment in parent-adolescent relationships?

"In England, family therapy is recommended in the NICE guidelines as a therapeutic approach for anorexia. This study was carried out in Australia, and concerns a manualised family therapy aptly named Family-Based Therapy (FBT) (Lock & Le Grange, 2013). FBT is a 20-session therapy that starts by placing the responsibility for food and meals firmly with the parents, and then builds on the family’s reactions to this change through exploration of family communication and relationships."

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"Neuro-plasticity, Resilience and Kids in Pain"

"Resilience research and neuroscience show that young people can overcome trauma and mistreatment and become stronger in the process. The number of caring “adults” outside the family continues to be a major predictor for success in high risk youngsters."


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