Trauma Informed Care or ACEs
Trauma can affect a person’s health across their lifetime. Traumatic events include witnessing or being confronted with an actual or threatened death, serious injury, or threat to one’s physical integrity or that of another person. These events can be personal and private or experienced in a shared or public realm. Examples of personal/private events include: sexual assault, sexual abuse, domestic violence, witnessing domestic violence. More public events include: natural disasters, war, and community violence.
Traumatic events experienced in childhood are referred to as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). These experiences impact the health and well-being of children, families, and communities across California. ACEs can have a profound impact on children, affecting their physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual development. Consequently, ACEs impact a person’s health and livelihood throughout their lifetime. Kaiser Permanente’s Health Appraisal Clinic in Sand Diego, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, conducted a study between 1995 and 1997 which included 17,337 participants. The study revealed just how impactful ACEs are on the child.
ACE Studies
Injury Prevention and Control: Division of Violence Prevention
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
ACEs Connection Network
Using a Trauma-Informed Approach can help identify ACEs early on so that the child can receive the care and help needed. Health professionals utilizing a Trauma-Informed Approach are guided by principles proven effective in delivering high quality patient care.
Trauma Informed Approach
Trauma Informed Care
Trauma Informed Practice
Trauma Informed Care Videos
Brene Brown
Empathy versus Sympathy
Cleveland Clinic
Empathy: The Human Connection to Patient Care
Harvard University Center on the Developing Child’s InBrief: Resilience Series
What is Resilience?
The Science of Resilience
How Resilience is Built
Nadine Burke Harris
How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across A Lifetime
Sesame Street: Common and Colbie Caillat - "Belly Breathe" with Elmo
Trauma Informed Care 101
This presentation explores the basics of Trauma Informed Care, an organizational structure and treatment framework that involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma.
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