Sentences with phrase «of early adverse experiences»

This resources highlights the importance of screening and educational resources in order to mitigate the early of early adverse experiences.

She is also a co-investigator on a randomized efficacy trial of a school readiness intervention program with foster children and a multisite Center investigating the behavioral and neurobiological impacts of early adverse experiences in humans and nonhuman primates.

The impact of the early adverse experiences are so profound that difficulties may persist after admission to care.

Fortunately, it is posited that our psychological profiles are malleable, so intervening with positive contextual factors, such as more attentive caregiving, can reduce the impact of early adverse experiences of children (Kreidler & Kurzawa, 2009; Weitzman & Cook, 1986).

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The Wisconsin Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program is undertaking multiple efforts to advance understanding of adverse experiences during childhood and to promote trauma - informed practices.

Building on the seminal findings from the Adverse Early Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS), Department of Children and Families (DCF), and Childrens Trust Fund have examined ways to translate this knowledge into policy and practice.

Earlier this year, Vermont passed legislation requiring the creation of an Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Working Group to examine how the state could strengthen its response to ACEs.

It's influenced by the stresses of poverty, violence, the loss of a parent, and other adverse experiences, which together can have serious health consequences evident as early as the teen and preteen years.»

But new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown that multiple adverse experiences in early childhood are linked to depression and physical health problems in kids as young as 9 to 15.

The statement is based on a review of existing scientific research published in peer - reviewed medical journals that documents a strong association between adverse experiences in childhood and teen years and a greater likelihood of developing risk factors such as obesity, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes earlier than those not experiencing adverse experiences.

Scientists have known that very adverse experiences early in life damage the brain, raising the risk of mental health and psychiatric problems later in life.

Beyond its contribution to the design of more effective teaching strategies, science can help policymakers and civic leaders understand how adverse, early childhood experiences disrupt brain architecture, and how effective interventions can shift the odds toward more favorable outcomes.

Adverse childhood experiences predict earlier age of drinking onset: results from a representative US sample of current or former drinkers

For example, the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study demonstrated strong associations between childhood maltreatment and later - life health and well - being.1 Hertzman described the profound, long - term influence of the «biological embedding of early experience.»

If the study populations are skewed to children exhibiting ADHD symptomatology as a result of adverse early life experiences, a not unreasonable supposition since these studies have tended to lump ADHD and CD together, what is being measured are interventions to improve the parenting capacity of parents whose parenting abilities are so poor that their children have been adversely affected.

An increasing body of evidence documents the robust relationship between adverse experiences in early childhood and a host of complications, both medical and psychological, that manifest throughout childhood and later in adult life.

In 2010, more than 1 in 5 children were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiences.

Adverse early experiences were related to increased rates of health problems in adulthood including obesity and cardiovascular disease as well as substance abuse, mental health problems, and poor health - related quality of life.

Children who experience poverty, particularly during early life or for an extended period, are at risk of a host of adverse health and developmental outcomes through their life course.1 Poverty has a profound effect on specific circumstances, such as birth weight, infant mortality, language development, chronic illness, environmental exposure, nutrition, and injury.

In the future, the ability to understand and contextualize the report of early adverse or traumatic experiences will fundamentally influence the approach to diagnosis and treatment of all psychiatric entities.1 This proposition is reminiscent to some extent of the longstanding distinction between the categorical and dimensional approaches to conceptualization.

Our findings add insight into the pathways linking early childhood adversity to poor adult wellbeing.29 Complementing past work that focused on physical health, 9 our findings provide information about links between ACEs and early childhood outcomes at the intersection of learning, behavior, and health.29 We found that ACEs experienced in early childhood were associated with poor foundational skills, such as language and literacy, that predispose individuals to low educational attainment and adult literacy, both of which are related to poor health.23, 30 — 33 Attention problems, social problems, and aggression were also associated with ACEs and also have the potential to interfere with children's educational experience given known associations between self - regulatory behavior and academic achievement.34, 35 Consistent with the original ACE study and subsequent research, we found that exposure to more ACEs was associated with more adverse outcomes, suggesting a dose — response association.3 — 8 In fact, experiencing ≥ 3 ACEs was associated with below - average performance or problems in every outcome examined.

This paper hypothesises that the population of children receiving a clinical diagnosis of ADHD is aetiologically heterogeneous: that within this population, there is a group for whom the development of ADHD is largely genetically driven, and another who have a «phenocopy» of ADHD as a result of very adverse early childhood experiences, with the prevalence of this phenocopy being heavily skewed towards populations living with poverty and violence.

Relative to children with no ACEs, children who experienced ACEs had increased odds of having below - average academic skills including poor literacy skills, as well as attention problems, social problems, and aggression, placing them at significant risk for poor school achievement, which is associated with poor health.23 Our study adds to the growing literature on adverse outcomes associated with ACEs3 — 9,24 — 28 by pointing to ACEs during early childhood as a risk factor for child academic and behavioral problems that have implications for education and health trajectories, as well as achievement gaps and health disparities.

Because many of the biological alterations associated with early stress in preclinical studies have been reported in adults with depression, it has been hypothesized that the neurobiological changes associated with adverse early experiences may confer a vulnerability for the development of depression (6, 8).

Interventions targeting modifiable risk factors (eg, smoking, inactivity, and poor diet) in adult life have only limited efficacy in preventing age - related disease.3, 4 Because of the increasing recognition that preventable risk exposures in early life may contribute to pathophysiological processes leading to age - related disease, 5,6 the science of aging has turned to a life - course perspective.7, 8 Capitalizing on this perspective, this study tested the contribution of adverse psychosocial experiences in childhood to 3 adult conditions that are known to predict age - related diseases: depression, inflammation, and the clustering of metabolic risk markers, hereinafter referred to as age - related - disease risks.

Thus, the high rate of emotional and behavioural problems shown later may be a consequence of vulnerability deriving from a combination of genetic risks and seriously adverse experiences in early life.

Collectively, they should transform our understanding of, and attitudes toward, the nature and significance of adverse experiences in early childhood, and influence policy and practice in relation to them.

OBJECTIVES: To examine the prenatal and postnatal mechanisms by which maternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) predict the early development of their offspring, specifically via biological (maternal health risk in pregnancy, infant health risk at birth) and psychosocial risk (maternal stress during and after pregnancy, as well as hostile behavior in early infancy).

Yet not all children experience lasting harm as a result of adverse early experiences.

The evaluation of the early effects (short - run) of SSLP found mixed effects, with beneficial effects for some groups, but adverse effects for children from families with higher needs and experiencing greater disadvantage.3 Results from the second phase of the evaluation were more positive.

Coupled with this research is the landmark Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE)(Felitti, et al., 1998) which reviewed the health of more than 17,000 mid-life adults and confirmed that early exposure to negative childhood experiences of abuse, neglect and witnessing violence leads to lifelong, debilitating mental and physical health problems, and ultimately, earlyExperiences Study (ACE)(Felitti, et al., 1998) which reviewed the health of more than 17,000 mid-life adults and confirmed that early exposure to negative childhood experiences of abuse, neglect and witnessing violence leads to lifelong, debilitating mental and physical health problems, and ultimately, earlyexperiences of abuse, neglect and witnessing violence leads to lifelong, debilitating mental and physical health problems, and ultimately, early mortality.

Early Childhood Adverse Experiences, Inferior Frontal Gyrus Connectivity, and the Trajectory of Externalizing Psychopathology.

Rothman, E.F., Edwards, E.M., Heeren, T. and Hingson, R.W. (2007) Adverse childhood experiences predict earlier age of drinking onset: Results from a representative US sample of current and former drinkers, Pediatrics, 122, e298 - e304.

The Foundations of Lifelong Health Are Built in Early Childhood National Scientific Council on the Developing Child & National Forum on Early Childhood Policy and Programs (2010) Discusses the impact of adverse experiences on child health, ways to promote healthy development, and strategies to improve policies and programs that affect long - term health outcomes.

In addition, the research on institutionalized children indicates that institutionalization and other adverse early experiences (for example, having multiple caregivers and being held and stimulated less) may affect brain structure and activity.23 Findings from these studies suggest that the timing and duration of institutionalization are important.

Under conditions of extreme stress, ill health, immaturity, and adverse early and present experiences, these maternal behaviours and the priming effects of physiology, are often altered or diminished.

High quality early education services have been demonstrated to mitigate the negative impact of toxic stress and adverse experiences.

Visitors» communication styles are the most basic «active ingredient» of home visiting — the main mechanism to motivate, enable and reinforce families to build supports, reduce stressors, practice positive parenting, and protect their children from exposure to early adverse experiences.

Too many children face adverse experiences in the earliest years: Almost half of all children under 3 years old live in low - income households, and more than one fifth live in poverty.

The research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and early brain development has demonstrated that psychosocial stressors are «toxic» to the developing brain and metabolic systems of the young child, resulting in poor mental health, cognitive disability, and chronic disease.

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.

«We believe that strengthening and integrating infant and early childhood mental health supports in child - and family - serving systems is fundamental to improving outcomes for all children, particularly those who face adverse experiences during the earliest stages of development.

The Wisconsin Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program is undertaking multiple efforts to advance understanding of adverse experiences during childhood and to promote trauma - informed practices.

Building on the seminal findings from the Adverse Early Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS), Department of Children and Families (DCF), and Childrens Trust Fund have examined ways to translate this knowledge into policy and practice.

«This wonderful DVD will be helpful to parents by providing brief visual depictions of responding supportively to a wide range of situations that commonly occur in infancy and early childhood, the years that shape the person who is developing,» states Vincent J. Felitti, MD, Co-Principal Investigator of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study.

• to describe the lives of children in Ireland, in order to establish what is typical and normal as well as what is atypical and problematic; • to chart the development of children over time, in order to examine the progress and wellbeing of children at critical periods from birth to adulthood; • to identify the key factors that, independently of others, most help or hinder children's development; • to establish the effects of early childhood experiences on later life; • to map dimensions of variation in children's lives; • to identify the persistent adverse effects that lead to social disadvantage and exclusion, educational difficulties, ill health and deprivation; • to obtain children's views and opinions on their lives; • to provide a bank of data on the whole child; and to provide evidence for the creation of effective and responsive policies and services for children and families; • to provide evidence for the creation of effective and responsive policies and services for children and families.

The questionnaire we used to measure the occurrence of early traumatic life events explored a variety of adverse experiences other than physical and sexual abuse.

The child or adolescent has experienced or witnessed multiple or prolonged adverse events over a period of at least one year beginning in childhood or early adolescence, including:

BACKGROUND: Allelic variation of the monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) gene has been implicated in conduct disorder and antisocial, aggressive behavior in humans when associated with early adverse experiences.