{"id":4960,"date":"2017-11-14T19:45:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T19:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagoafrica.co.za\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2017-11-14T19:45:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T19:45:11","slug":"childhood-trauma-affects-health-across-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imagoafrica.co.za\/for-professionals\/childhood-trauma-affects-health-across-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"How Childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Childhood trauma<\/span><\/p>\n<p>isn\u2019t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who\u2019ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on. Another reason why Imago therapy can facilitate up river prevention, as well as downriver cure.<\/p>\n<p>Watch her TED talk<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_affects_health_across_a_lifetime\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Childhood trauma isn\u2019t something you just get over as you grow up. 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