Loretta will present on the Psychological Impact of Trauma. She will first start by discussing what trauma is and the different types of trauma a person might experience, including acute, complex, and developmental trauma and criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She will discuss the ACE’s study and model of how adverse childhood experiences influence health and wellbeing throughout the lifespan. She will then discuss how trauma affects a person’s development, brain, relationships and functioning but highlight that there can be resilience following trauma. Loretta will consider the trauma faced by families with children with paediatric health conditions and discuss how this might present in the families that we work with.