Year: 2015
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) represent a child’s exposure to negative events, including emotional, physical and sexual abuse, domestic violence, absence of a parent because of divorce or separation, and a family/household member’s mental illness, incarceration, and/or substance abuse [1], [2]. Research has shown that majority of adults have experienced at least one ACE, [3] with prevalence estimates ranging from 65% to 87% [4], [5]. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that 59.4% of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) respondents in 2009 reported having at least one ACE, approximately 25% of adults reported experiencing ≥3 ACEs and 8.7% reported ≥5 ACEs [2]. These high prevalence estimates highlight the importance for additional efforts, locally, state-wide, and nationally, to help in the reduction and prevention of child maltreatment, and associated family dysfunction. There is also a need for services to treat outcomes, especially stress-related health illnesses, associated with ACEs [2], from childhood through adulthood.
Source: Apple Academic Press eBooks
DOI: 10.1201/b18313-17
Institution: Virginia Commonwealth University
Language: English
Topic: Child Abuse and Trauma
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: National Institutes of Health
OpenAlex ID: W4237110994