Brain development study to be done on victims of childhood abuse
CALGARY — Ongoing mental-health challenges faced by victims of childhood abuse will be the focus of a long-term study by the University of Calgary and the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre.
The university’s Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education, along with the Kennedy centre, will conduct the study. In its initial two-year pilot stage, the study is to involve 240 children between six and 17.
Half of the participants will have experienced childhood abuse while the other half will have not.
“For 20 years I have been working to help people really understand the impacts of child abuse — making the invisible, visible. This research will help us do exactly that,” former NHL player Kennedy said Thursday.