Childhood trauma has the potential to overwhelm the coping ability of children and can create developmental changes in brain structure and function. These changes to the developing mind allow for short term survival and sacrifice long term effective functioning. Adolescence is a time when these changes have the potential for both becoming more deeply embedded or largely rectified as the person moves toward adulthood.

Learn from a variety of seasoned experts and leading-edge researchers about the neuroscience and theory that supports the diagnosis, conceptualization and treatment of persons with dissociative dis