The impact of trauma on learning

Up to one third of all adult learners have experienced trauma of sufficient magnitude to impact on their ability to learn. In South Africa, within our poorly resourced communities, with their high rates of often unreported crime, the real figure would be far higher. Children who have grown up in poor communities heavy with the brutality of suffering bear witness to extremes of violence, substance abuse, sexual offences and abject poverty. The field of psychiatry has, for decades, struggled to neatly categorise and label the endless list of symptoms displayed Read More