Central to this work will be the investigation of
how extraordinary stress related to deep poverty, abuse, neglect, and / or discrimination affects the development of the brain beginning in the earliest years of life.»
Circumstances that place families
under extraordinary stress - for instance, poverty, divorce, sickness, disability - sometimes take their toll in child maltreatment.
Your body will adapt to
this extraordinary stress by growing.
The experience can be emotionally and physically draining due to
the extraordinary stress that accompanies it.
But, for many of us, it's simply a reaction to
extraordinary stress.