Early experiences powerfully shape the developing brain and can both immediate and lifelong impact on health and well-being. All areas of development are closely intertwined in the early years, so physical harm can damage emotional, social, coginitive, and language development. Younger children make up a larger proportion of abuse and neglect victims than do older children, and most likely to experience serious harm and longer foster care placement. Young children can recovery from early maltreatment due to rapidity of early development and the capacity of the growing brain to respond to new experiences. With early support and intervention maltreated infants and toddlers healthy development can be restored (The National Child Traumatic Stress Network).
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Carrie, I enjoyed your post on child abuse and your newly acquired resource. Child abuse is defineely a great issue in our country, often created by the poor economic crisis our country is facing today. Keep up the great work.
ReplyDeleteIt's such a sad topic to think that anyone would want to harm a young child but it happens. It although is a sad topic it needs to be talked about and brought to peoples awareness in order to prevent it.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing!