“Children do make choices to misbehave,” states professor Essi Viding, “but the tools they bring to make the choices are different. Someone who has very stable developmental history is making a particular choice with a completely different toolkit than a child who has a unpredictable developmental history.” Viding is https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/people/essi-viding (professor of Developmental Psychopathology at UCL) and, together with professor Eamon McCrory, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/professor-eamon-mccrory (professor of Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology at UCL), she studies the impact of trauma on a child’s behaviour at the https://drru-research.org/ (Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit) at UCL. Speaking on this week’s Tes Podagogy podcast, they explain how trauma impacts development, how this affects behaviour and what teachers can - and should - do about it.