2017 Research Annual Report

Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children

Featured Research

Research Sheds Light on How a Mother’s Psychosocial History Impacts Child Emotional Development Prior research indicates that maternal interpersonal trauma can adversely affect the emotional and social health of children. Now a study led by researchers at Cincinnati Children’s identifies a pathway that connects a mother’s traumatic experiences early in life, her subsequent depression and lack of social support to her infant’s social and emotional health.