On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Dr. Tanja Jovanovic, Director of the Grady Trauma Project and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University.
Dr. Jovanovic’s current research program focuses on the Interaction of traumatic experiences, neurophysiology, neuroendocrinology, and genetic risk factors in mentor disorders in adults and children in high-risk populations. We will be speaking to Dr. Jovanovic about her work and its application to children witnessing abuse and its impact on their health, development and future risk factors which characterizes it as the same risk of harm to them as if the children had been abused directly. Dr. Jovanovic’s research has wide-ranging implications for how courts and policymakers are treating intimate partner violence in new program pilot interventions.
Here are the research articles Dr. Jovanovic and I reference during our conversation:
- Exposure to Violence Accelerates Epigenetic Aging in Children
- Maternal buffering of fear-potentiated startle in children and adolescents with trauma exposure
- Maternal Child Sexual Abuse Is Associated With Lower Maternal Warmth Toward Daughters but Not Sons
- Physiological markers of anxiety are increased in children of abused mothers
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