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ACEs Connected Life

The document discusses Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), which are potentially traumatic events that can occur in childhood, such as various types of abuse and household dysfunction. The largest research study on ACEs found strong associations between ACEs and health risks and diseases later in life. Preventing adversity, buffering the impacts of adversity, and fostering resilience can help people live with more hope than fear despite experiences of trauma.

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ACEs Connected Life

The document discusses Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), which are potentially traumatic events that can occur in childhood, such as various types of abuse and household dysfunction. The largest research study on ACEs found strong associations between ACEs and health risks and diseases later in life. Preventing adversity, buffering the impacts of adversity, and fostering resilience can help people live with more hope than fear despite experiences of trauma.

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Adverse

Childhood
Experiences
(ACEs)
Their impact in our wellbeing

10/8/2022
Married Life ministry
Adverse
Childhood
Experiences
Brief
Summary
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
▪ 1985
▪ A doctor: Dr. Vincent Felitti
▪ San Diego, California
▪ The Department of Preventive Medicine that he
directed was going “from strength to strength”
▪ But… 50% of the obesity clinic cases were
abandoning treatment.
▪ All of the people who dropped out of treatment
had been losing weight.

The largest study of its kind ever done to examine the


health and social effects of adverse childhood
experiences over the lifespan (Felitti & Anda)

For more information: “The Adverse Childhood Experience Study –the largest
public health study you never heard of”
http://acestoohigh.com/2012/10/03/the-adverse-childhood-experiences-study-the-
largest-most-important-public-health-study-you-never-heard-of-began-in-an-
obesity-clinic/
What is ACEs?
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Experiences Change the brain
Toxic stress from ACEs can
ACEs are
change brain
potentially traumatic
development and affect how
events that occur in
the body responds to
childhood.
stress.

Can be prevented
Include
ACEs can include
ACEs are linked to chronic health
violence, abuse, and
problems, mental illness, and
growing substance misuse in adulthood.
up in a family with mental However, ACEs can be prevented.
health or substance use
problems.
What is Trauma?

“Trauma can be a single event, connected


series of traumatic events or chronic lasting
stress.”
Categories of Adverse Childhood Experiences and
Prevalence Among Partipants in the survey
Category
Abuse by Category
Prevalence
Psychological (by parents) 11%
Physical (by parents) 11%
Sexual (anyone) 22%
Substance Abuse in family 26%
Domestic Violence 13%
Imprisoned Household Member 3%
Loss of Parent 23%
+ ACE =Negative Coping Skills
Fumar
Obesidad severa
Intentos suicidas
Alcoholismo
Abuso de drogas
50 parejas sexuales o +
Puntuación de
Repetición del trauma original +Riesgo
ACE
Autoflagelación
Trastornos alimentarios
ACEs are preventable!
ACE reduction
reliably predicts
simultaneous
decline in all of
these
conditions.
A true story:
ACE’s
Interpretation
10
Common
experiences
Our response is key!
Non-
Trauma Negative
Trigger
Informed Outcome
Response

Trauma
Positive
Trigger Informed
Outcome
Response
Childhood Trauma Efects Infographic
Person-in-Environment: A complex interplay of risk and
resources

ACE impact on Health Risk Behaviors


developing self (substance abuse, sexual and other risk-taking, etc.)
activation of defense Medical problems (both
mechanisms, etc.) short & long-term)
Changes in developing brain
INDIVIDUAL

COLLECTIVE
Family meanings Family relational system/ACEs
Cultural values Social violence
Social taboos Health, Mental health, & Substance abuse services
Victim blaming Social service , school, & criminal justice systems
“rugged individualism” Public health policy responses
A survivor
testimony!
A story of the transforming power of
God and of a heart that allows itself to
be transformed
Are you a
survivor of
ACE’s?
You can scan and know your ACE’s score
If you are and ACE’s
survivor and you
think you are
struggling with the
impact in the quality
of your life, please
seek help!
Recovery is possible!
Summary of ACE’s study findings
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
are very common

ACEs are strong predictors of adult


health risks and disease

ACEs are implicated in the 10 leading causes of death in the U.S.!

Virtually every study shows that ACEs are strong predictors of


homelessness (Burt, 2001).
Preventing
adversity,
buffering
adversity and
fostering
resilience is
when people
live with more
hope than
fear…
A video for your reference!
How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | Nadine Burke Harris

https://youtu.be/95ovIJ3dsNk
References:

ACES Publications (from the CDC ACE Study Web site, where you can search this list by year or health outcomes.)
https://acestoohigh.com/research/

Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology and How You Can Heal, by Donna Jackson Nakazawa.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel Van Der Kolk.

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity, by Dr Nadine Burke Harris, 2018.
Dr Gabor Maté: A New Understanding Of Addiction.
Https://networkmagazine.Ie/articles/gabor-mat%c3%a9-new-understanding-addiction

IT’S NOT THE DRUGS. IT’S THE (ACEs) ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES.
https://acestoohigh.com/2017/05/02/addiction-doc-says-stop-chasing-the-drug-focus-on-aces-people-can-recover/

The Boy who was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook : What Traumatised Children Can Teach Us about Loss, Love, and
Healing. – Dr Bruce Perry
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Boy_Who_Was_Raised_as_a_Dog.html?id=WW5uDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_es
c=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hold-Your-Kids-Parents-Matter-ebook/dp/B07DK2CZ2V/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1
Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers – Dr Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté

J.L, Herman. Trauma and Recovery, 1992, New York Books


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trauma-Recovery-Aftermath-Violence-Political/dp/0465061710

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