Association For Child And Adolescent Mental Health (acamh)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21594 In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Assistant Professor in biological anthropology at the University of California. Andrew is the first author of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP) paper ‘Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Prenatal stress predicts greater vulnerability to the psychological impacts of future stress exposure during late adolescence and early adulthood in Soweto, South Africa’ (doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13672), which is the focus of today’s podcast. Andrew sets the scene by providing a brief introduction of how he came to be interested in this area of research, before turning to the paper itself and sharing a brief overview of the paper. Andrew discusses the methodology used, including the challenges faced during the data collection, and shares the main findings from the paper. Andrew then expands upon two interesting findings; the first being the finding that social support did not mo