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How do childhood experiences affect our mental health in adulthood?
What are the childhood risk factors that predict poor adult mental health?
How do the lasting effects of childhood trauma reach across generations of Indigenous peoples in Canada?
Please join our experts for an open and informal public discussion of factors that promote mental and emotional health.
Down to the roots: The origins of mental illness in childhood
Thursday, October 13, 2016
7:00pm-9:00pm
The Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax
1515 South Park Street
Speakers:
Avshalom Caspi, Edward M. Arnett Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
Terrie Moffitt, Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
Amy Bombay, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Nursing, pilipili
Victoria Patterson, Research Assistant for “Families Overcoming Risks and Building Opportunities for Wellbeing” (FORBOW) project
Moderator: Rudolf Uher, Canada Research Chair in Early Intervention, pilipili
For more information, contact Jennifer Brown at jen.brown@dal.ca or 473-7358.
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