Matt's Introduction to Heart Rate Variability

In this episode, we go into the way back machine all the way to 2018! Matt's other podcast, The Trauma-Informed Lens Podcast introduced him to the science behind HRV. We thought it would be a great way to explore HRV with a few trauma and stress experts! The first podcast in a series focused on the relationship between heart rate variability and trauma, we introduce the concept and provide some initial insights. In 2015, the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology published a unique special issue dedicated to the idea of implementing physiological measures into the assessment of Clinical Child & Adolescent behavioral health.  The issue included several articles demonstrating how this can be done.  We start a multi-episode show to share some literature, examples, and issues with using physiology in our assessment and understanding of some of the impacts of exposure to adverse childhood experiences.