Helping Foster and Adoptive Families Cope With Trauma: A Guide for Pediatricians
Resource Topic: ACEs
Early Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and the Role of the Pediatrician: Translating Developmental Science Into Lifelong Health
As trusted authorities in child health and development, pediatric providers must now complement the early identification of developmental concerns with a greater focus on those interventions and community investments that reduce external threats to healthy brain growth.
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study
The original ACE Study – Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
CDC Overview of Kaiser ACE Study Overview
Highlights from the CDC about Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, one largest investigations of childhood abuse and neglect and later-life health and well-being
How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues (ACEs) has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.