Similarly, ongoing efforts to «
unlearn» unhealthy lifestyles and to treat noncommunicable diseases are warranted, 63 but so are efforts to improve the capacity of caregivers and communities to encourage and proactively build the rudimentary but foundational SE, language, and cognitive skills that allow for the adoption of healthy, adaptive coping skills.18, 20,66,67 Ultimately the prevention of all childhood adversity is an unrealistic objective and, to a
certain extent, an undesirable one.