THE ACE STUDY
Children, and adults, are affected in all areas of their life, including physical and mental health, relationships, and behaviours, by adverse experiences that they have had in their childhood. Identifying these experiences can help us in identifying the help we need to build resiliency and overcome the effects of these experiences.
One of the most important resources we now have to help children and adults who have had these experiences is the ACE questionaire/
What is the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Study?
The study looks at ten adverse childhood experiences in three areas:
Three types of adversity that make for a tough childhood. (Credit: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
And from these, they observed a connected between the number of adverse experiences and adverse health, behaviors, and life experiences. Those who had 4 or more adverse experiences were significantly more at risk of these negative effects:
Credit: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
It is the largest investigation into the connection between childhood trauma and health and well-being issues suffered later in life. The study supports the need to address and prevent child abuse.
TAKE THE 10 MINUTE ONLINE QUIZ HERE
Printable version to use with clients available here.
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ACE STUDY PRESENTATION
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Three types of adversity that make for a tough childhood. (Credit: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Carol Redding spoke on the ACE study based on her training as well as personal experience at the 2016 Cynthia Lockhart Mummery Conference on the effects of domestic Violence on children. , MA worked with the ACE study as a CDC Fellow as has since focused on educating other about about ACE. She is also a survivor, who shares freely that she has experienced all ten of the adverse childhood experiences.