Childhood Trauma

The most common childhood traumatic events are either the experience or witnessing of interpersonal violence.

Most children who experience trauma do not later develop psychopathology.

Children who experience trauma are three times more likely to develop psychopathology in adulthood than children who were not exposed to trauma.

Those in early childhood (<8 years old) are more likely to develop later externalizing concerns like conduct disorders.

Traumatized children tend to orient their attention more quickly to angry faces and interpret ambiguous situations as dangerous more often than non-traumatized children.