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Years ago, I had a colleague say that he wanted to “specialize in infant mental health.” It was a joke; he was implying that infant mental health (IMH) was a simple, maybe nonexistent, field and that it was easier than anything else we do in practice. After all, infants don’t have thoughts; they’re either awake or asleep, being fed or being changed. Simple, right?

Of course not.

When thinking about trauma and its effects on health and wellness, we spend a lot of time connecting trauma with early childhood. This is not only because the effects of trauma on the...

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