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Adverse Childhood Experiences: What Students and Health Professionals Need to Know book cover

1st Edition

Adverse Childhood Experiences What Students and Health Professionals Need to Know

By Roberta Waite, Ruth Ryan Copyright 2020
182 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This guide provides healthcare students and professionals with a foundational background on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) – traumatic early life experiences, which can have a profound impact on health in later life. ACEs can include being a victim of abuse, neglect or exposure to risk in the home or community. How healthcare students and professionals learn to recognize, react and... Read more

PART I

Knowledge development about ACEs

  1. Introduction-Repression to Spoken Truth: Opening Up

  2. Making the Connection: The ACE Study

  3. Toxic Stress, Adversity, and Trauma

    4. PART II

    Understanding ACEs from a life course health development perspective

  4. The Body Keeps Score

  5. Early brain development: Childhood Trauma and Adversity

  6. Developmental Psychology: Implication of ACEs

  7. Community and Social Structural Determinants: Implications of ACEs

PART III

Reducing ACEs

8 Socioecological Model: Individual and Family Influences

9 Socioecological Model: Context and Cultural Influences

PART IV

ACE INTERVENTION: A SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL APPROACH

10 Early Identification and Trauma-Related Approaches

11 Community and Societal Trauma-Informed Interventions

PART V

CONCLUSION

12 Moving Forward

Biography

Roberta Waite is a Professor at Drexel University, College of Nursing and Health Professions and Assistant Dean of Academic and Community Integration and Evaluation at the Stephen and Sandra Sheller Eleventh Street Family Health Services of Drexel University.

Ruth Ann Ryan is a Board Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist and a Psychoeducation Training Specialist with the Healing Hurt People Program in the Center for Non-Violence and Social Justice at Drexel University College of Medicine. She is co- founder of the Sanctuary Model and was the Clinical Director of the program for 20 years.

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