Chapter 1. Chapter 1

Synopsis

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You are a graduate student of child development. Your cousin Irene and her husband are thinking of adopting a child who has been traumatized. You have studied the work of Dr. Bruce Perry, whose research in child trauma is breaking new ground for both child trauma and brain development. Go to www.google.com (search to read Dr. Perry's article entitled, "Maltreatment and the Developing Child: How Early Childhood Experience Shapes Child and Culture”).