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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)"”.
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Adverse Childhood Experiences(ACEs) and Nonverbal Reasoning Skills
… stress and interpersonal traumatic experience in childhood have a cascade effect on an individual's physical and mental health. There is evidence that people with complex adverse childhood experiences have diminished cognitive abilities. However, there are few studies on the effects of Adverse …
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Implementation of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Screening in a Midwestern Elementary School
Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are stressful events experienced during childhood that negatively affect children’s physical and mental health, social development, and educational achievements. Early identification and interventions for children who have experienced negative …
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Improving Outcomes for Children Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): A Study of Intervention Effectiveness Guided by Developmental Theory
<p>Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) is the term often used to refer to a set of negative experiences occurring in childhood that hold high potential for inducing toxic stress and complex trauma in children (Felitti et al., 1998). Studies have shown that ACEs are common, often co-occur, and …
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The Role of Maternal Emotion Regulation in the Relationship Between Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Negative Parenting, and Child Externalizing Behaviors
<p>Exploration of the effects of maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on child externalizing behaviors were conducted in the proposed study. Subtypes of ACEs, such as household dysfunction and maltreatment, and their effects on child externalizing behaviors were also examined. Maternal …
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Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and co-occurring disorders (CODs): Is there a relationship between ACEs, substance use, and mental health among inmates?
Previous literature has shown that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a factor in future criminal behavior, victimization, and overall health (DeLisi et al., 2017; Mersky et al., 2013; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020). Research has also found that co-occurring disorders …
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Holding pieces of the same puzzle: using an understanding of the prevalence and impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to target mental health resources
Introduction: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are known to be associated with poor mental health outcomes. This thesis seeks to understand the extent to which different ACEs can be measured using routinely-collected data, and what early interventions might be indicated to support the mental …
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Being Black & Blue: Sex as a Moderator Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Depressive Symptoms Among Black Emerging Adults
<p>Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been linked to adult mental health consequences (e.g., depressive symptoms). Black people are disproportionately affected by ACEs, and factors related to ethnic subgroups and/or sex may produce differential depressive outcomes. The current study examined …
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Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Infant DNA Methylation: Examining an Epigenetic Biomarker of Intergenerational Risk
… persistence of poor social environments such as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), across generations. Stress occurring during gestation, that affects both the fetus and mother, has also been proposed as a method of transmitting intergenerational risk to offspring. New evidence in animal …
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Life Adversity, Social Support, Resilience, and College Student Mental Health
This study investigated how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), current college student hassles, and perceived social support relate to college student resilience. This study also explored how ACEs, current college student hassles, perceived social support, and resilience relate to college …
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Parents With Adverse Childhood Experiences: Exploring Buffering Effects Of A Brief Couple Intervention
Adults with Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) report greater relational distress and lower relationship satisfaction. Enhanced risk amongst those with ACEs may be due to increased stress sensitization. The transition to parenthood (and years thereafter) is therefore an important window for …
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Adverse childhood experiences, working memory, and stress
… study aimed to explore the relationships among adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), working memory as assessed by an n-back task, and stress. Working memory task demands were manipulated by varying the cognitive load (1-back/3-back) and time limit (standard-paced/time-restricted), and stress …
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Attention after adversity: examining temperament as a protective and risk factor
… information in the face of distractions. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are characterized by various forms of abuse and neglect experienced before the age of 18. Temperament is an early-appearing variation in attention-related self-regulation that is thought to be largely influenced …
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Examining adverse childhood experiences & attachment style as predictors of sexual violence
This thesis examined adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and attachment style as predictors of sexual violence across convicted and community samples. Study 1 investigated whether child abuse, abuse characteristics, and attachment style predicted sexual recidivism among 772 men convicted of sexual …
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Reaching out from within: Poet’s soft lightning delivered with thunder
… poetic expression, I critically examine my lived experiences from childhood through adulthood, highlighting the pivotal role mentors played within my ecological systems—microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem. My study underscores the capacity of mentorship to mediate …
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The relationship between adverse childhood experiences, parenting behavior, and parenting self-efficacy in African American families with low-income
<p>Early trauma is linked to adverse adult outcomes, including parenting deficits. While prior research has emphasized specific trauma types and severe parenting deficits, less is known about how cumulative trauma shapes normative parenting behaviors. Parenting self-efficacy (PSE) has been proposed …
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Pathways from parental adverse childhood experiences to child emotion regulation: The role of parent emotion regulation and emotion socialization
… behaviors (ERSBs) in the relation between parent adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and child ER. Caregivers of children ages 2 through 5 (inclusive) completed traditional and expanded ACEs scales, the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale Short Form, the Coping with Toddlers’ Negative …
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Adverse Childhood Experiences, Risk-taking, and Protective Factors
… have discovered many detrimental effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). While these outcomes can have far-reaching effects into adulthood, experiencing adversity can also exert proximal impacts on children. An outcome of recent interest in trauma literature is increased risk-taking …
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The Ethical Argument for Implementing Screening For Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Care of Adult Patients
Childhood trauma greatly impacts the lives of patients and their future health outcomes. Since the discovery of the utility of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) screening tool in the 1990s, many providers have attempted to screen and intervene on these past experiences of trauma with mixed …
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The Health Consequences of Adverse Childhood Experiences: Building Resilient Communities
… in four children have experienced two or more Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) before the age of 18. Twenty-two percent of Sonoma County adults reported experiencing four or more ACEs before the age of 18. With the high rates of ACEs in our community this fieldwork placement aimed to bring …
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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Preterm Birth: A Systematic Review
Adverse childhood Experiences (ACEs) elevate one’s risk for poor health outcomes later in life such as psychiatric disorders, cardiovascular disease, depression, anxiety, obesity, diabetes, poor fetal health, and liver disease (Poulton et al., 2002, Anda et al., 2007, Jimenez et al., 2017, Talbot …
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