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How do childhood experiences affect our mental health in adulthood?
What are the childhood risk factors that predict poor adult mental health?
How do the lasting effects of childhood trauma reach across generations of Indigenous peoples in Canada?

Please join our experts for an open and informal public discussion of factors that promote mental and emotional health.

Down to the roots: The origins of mental illness in childhood

Thursday, October 13, 2016
7:00pm-9:00pm
The Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax
1515 South Park Street

Speakers:
Avshalom Caspi, Edward M. Arnett Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
Terrie Moffitt, Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
Amy Bombay, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Nursing, 麻豆传媒
Victoria Patterson, Research Assistant for 鈥淔amilies Overcoming Risks and Building Opportunities for Wellbeing鈥� (FORBOW) project

Moderator: Rudolf Uher, Canada Research Chair in Early Intervention, 麻豆传媒

For more information, contact Jennifer Brown at jen.brown@dal.ca or 473-7358.聽