For shame rooted in adverse childhood experiences, reason and verbal persuasion are often ineffective. This post provides an ...

Adverse childhood experiences are associated with substantially higher risk for earlier menarche and pubertal onset in girls while showing no significant effects on boys’ pubertal timing.

A new study found that this grandparent's positive influence on a child who had experienced trauma can extend for years.

The Childhood Stress study investigated the relationship ... The following quotations are examples of caregiver descriptions of these adverse experiences and the effects on their health and wellbeing.

In 1998, researchers at Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control published a groundbreaking study about various kinds of childhood trauma that can have lasting, negative health ...

When children are exposed to very challenging experiences, their health suffers. In our recent study, “Adverse Childhood Experiences and Household Food Insecurity: Findings from the 2016 National ...

Researchers at Rutgers University have found that adverse childhood experiences can make people more sensitive to potential threats from others, which in turn increases their risk of engaging in ...

A new study finds that mothers’ adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)—including abuse, neglect, or household dysfunction—may ...

Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Public Health Issue - Building Strong Brains Tennessee is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV ...

A new study from Heriot-Watt University shows that adverse childhood experiences ... who have gone on to experience clinical levels of depression or anxiety, for example, instead of the general ...

Early adversity weakens children's brain wiring, but strong relationships help protect thinking and learning abilities.

Mothers' traumatic childhoods may impact children with ADHD or autism. Researchers urge more holistic family support.