Adverse Childhood Experiences
What Students and Health Professionals Need to Know
- 172 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Adverse Childhood Experiences
What Students and Health Professionals Need to Know
About this book
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 respond to persons affected by trauma will lay the foundation for their relationships with patients. This book intentionally uses micro-to-macro lenses accompanied by a structural competency framework to elucidate health implications across the lifespan. It explores the nature of adversity and its effects on the physical, emotional, cognitive and social health of individuals, communities and society. The book, written by two experienced psychiatric nurses, will equip healthcare students and professionals with an understanding for critical change in practice and offer action steps designed to assist them with prevention and intervention approaches and steps to help build resilience.
This book will be core reading for healthcare students within mental health, pediatric and primary care nursing courses. It will also be of interest to students and professionals in the social work, psychology and public health fields who are exploring resilience and trauma-informed practices
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Content
- List of illustrations
- About the authors
- 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
- Part II: Understanding ACEs from a life course health development perspective
- 4. The body keeps the score: Epigenetics
- 5. Early brain development: Childhood trauma and adversity
- 6. Developmental psychology: Implications of ACEs
- 7. Community and 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-informed approaches
- 11. Community and societal trauma-informed interventions
- Part V: Conclusion
- 12. Moving forward
- Appendix1: Integrating ACE education into the curriculum of health professionals
- References
- Index