Included in the coverage:

• Biological embedding of child maltreatment
• Toward an adaptation-based approach to resilience
• Developmental traumatology: brain development and maltreated children with and without PTSD
• Childhood maltreatment and pediatric PTSD: abnormalities in threat neural circuitry
• An integrative temporal framework for psychological resilience

The Biology of Early Life Stress is important reading for child maltreatment researchers; clinical psychologists; educators in counseling, psychology, trauma, and nursing; physicians; and state- and federal-level policymakers. Advocates, child and youth practitioners, and clinicians in general will find it a compelling resource.