What Are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)? Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can potentially cause trauma. ACEs aren’t specific. They can include any distressful event between birth and age 17.

Children who experience violence, the loss of a parent or other serious challenges at home can face lasting effects that ...

A landmark study by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Keiser Permanente investigated the effects of child abuse and related adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as a public health problem over ...

Maltreatment such as neglect and abuse are types of adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs. But they often say little about ...

This expert guide supports clinicians, educators, legal advocates, judges, and mental health professionals in effectively screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). It integrates ...

For decades, medicine treated childhood as prologue. Now it is becoming clear that early trauma can rewire the brain, alter ...

Our experiences as children can affect the way we feel and function throughout our lives. While early adversity or trauma can have lasting effects on our health and well-being, healing is possible — ...

A neuroimaging study in Italy found that patients with bipolar disorder reporting more adverse childhood experiences tended ...

The prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder is 3-4% in normal pregnancies and is upwards of 18-20% in high-risk ...

Every Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the Booker T. Washington Center, the Choosing Peace program teaches Macon-Bibb County kids about peaceful conflict resolution in an effort to reduce violence and improve ...