Rahman A, Perri A, Deegan A, Kuntz J, Cawthorpe D. On becoming trauma - informed:
Role of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study in tertiary child and adolescent mental health services and the association with standard measures of impairment and severity.
The role of adverse childhood experiences in cardiovascular disease risk: a review with emphasis on plausible mechanisms
On Becoming Trauma - Informed:
Role of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey in Tertiary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and the Association with Standard Measures of Impairment and Severity Abdul Rahman, MD, FRCPC; Andrea Perri, MSN; Avril Deegan, MSW; Jennifer Kuntz, MSW; David Cawthorpe, MSc, PhD To examine the clinical utility of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) survey as an index of trauma in a child and adolescent mental health care setting, descriptive, polychoric factor, and regression analyses were employed with cross-sectional ACE surveys (2833) and registration - linked data using past admissions (10,400) from November 2016 to March 2017 related to clinical data.
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Multiple factors reportedly increase the risk
of suicide.44 - 49 Substance abuse has repeatedly been associated with suicidal behaviors, and depression has as well.1,50 - 62 Moreover, previous reports from the ACE Study have demonstrated strong, graded relationships between the number
of adverse childhood experiences and the risk
of alcohol or illicit substance abuse and depressive disorders.23, 24,28 Although a temporal relationship between the onset
of substance abuse or depressive disorders and lifetime suicide attempts in the ACE Study cohort is uncertain, our analysis
of the potential mediating effects
of these known risk factors provides evidence that for some persons,
adverse childhood experiences play a
role in the development
of substance abuse or depression.
Individuals exposed to
adverse childhood experiences tend to be less equipped to take on a parenting
role when they are adults and, in the context
of adverse circumstances and the absence
of some form
of social support and / or intervention, they are more likely to adopt inappropriate parenting behaviours and perpetuate a cycle
of negative and
adverse parenting across generations.
This paper seeks to address this, as well as examining the potentially mediating
role of adult insecure attachment styles in the relationship between
childhood adverse experience and adult disorder.
Currently as the Maternal Child Adolescent Director, Rhoda is working within the community to increase awareness
of racial and health equity,
adverse childhood experiences and how they play a
role within our substance using pregnant women.
The articles in this issue include the latest research about brain functioning during the first three years
of life and the important
role of early social interactions for later school readiness and lifelong learning; how toxic stress caused by
adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is having an impact on the health and development
of children; a summary
of what has been learned about early development during the past 15 years; and examples
of how tribal communities using Federal funding opportunities and partnerships to build more coordinated, effective early
childhood systems.
Participants will learn about the long - term health effects
of adverse childhood experiences across the lifespan and the
role of story - making in play therapy.
Adverse childhood experiences: assessing the impact on health and school engagement and the mitigating
role of resilience
To examine the individual and cumulative effects
of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on alcohol consumption in midlife and early old - age, and the
role of ACEs in 10 - year drinking trajectories across midlife.