A new study led by researchers at UCLA Health finds that children who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are significantly more likely to miss school due to health-related issues.

Adverse childhood experiences and defensive gun use: The indirect role of threat sensitivity and depressive symptoms, Journal of Psychiatric Research (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.12.030 ...

Background This study examined the independent effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and social support on ...

Children who have lived through a series of adverse childhood experiences also face an increased ... charged with the murder of three girls and 10 counts of attempted ... New research from the ...

Experts have identified 10 adverse childhood experiences that can have a lasting impact on a person's well-being. Schylar Canfield-Baber has lived through all of them. He saw drug abuse in the ...

State Rep. Daryl Campbell, a former social worker, writes that the state turning over a foster child to Immigration and ...

A Swedish study finds that childhood adversities, such as abuse and parental mental illness, increase the risk of ...

A child is born to a 17-year-old mother in a small south Arkansas town. There is a healthy 14 -month-old sibling. Mom is not employed. She has an alcohol substance use disorder, but she is able to ...

Study finds increased risk for all examined adversities except familial death, with higher risk for those facing more adversities.

Compared to their cisgender peers, transgender and gender-questioning adolescents were exposed to more adverse childhood experiences.

For adults in Kentucky, having had one or more adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, is associated with an increased risk ...