How childhood trauma affects brain development
Early childhood and adolescence are key sensitives periods where children and young people’s brains are more affected by positive and negative experiences. Positive experiences help build healthy brains while experiencing childhood trauma and abuse can harm a child’s brain development.
The NSPCC learning have put together an easy to read helpful booklet ‘Sharing the Brain Story: Using metaphors to explain child development’. Embedded in the booklet is the following short YouTube animation: How a child’s brain develops through early experiences – YouTube