Chunk #3 — Conceptualizing Early Life Stress

Source: Early experience and the development of stress reactivity and regulation in children.
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conceptualizing ELS. This is not to say that physical abuse or commission of harm does not have an impact on development; however, these effects are likely more related to trauma (see Yehuda & LeDoux, 2007). Therefore, in our work on ELS, we have chosen to focus on the loss or lack of typical parental care.