scholarly journals All the ACEs: A Chaotic Concept for Family Policy and Decision-Making?

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue White ◽  
Rosalind Edwards ◽  
Val Gillies ◽  
David Wastell
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Parental Control ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Definitive Evidence ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Parenting Behaviours

This article will consider Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as a chaotic concept that prioritises risk and obscures the material and social conditions of the lives of its objects. It will show how the various definitions of ACEs offer no cohesive body of definitive evidence and measurement, and lead to a great deal of over-claiming. It discusses how ACEs have found their time and place, locating a variety of social ills within the child’s home, family and parenting behaviours. It argues that because ACEs are confined to intra-familial circumstances, and largely to narrow parent-child relations, issues outside of parental control are not addressed. It concludes that ACEs form a poor body of evidence for family policy and decision-making about child protection and that different and less stigmatising solutions are hiding in plain sight.

scholarly journals VIOLENT CRIMES AND ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES IN YOUNG OFFENDERS AT BLITAR JUVENILE DETENTION CENTRE

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 388-401
Author(s):  
Jessica Shirleen Wilona ◽  
Yusti Probowati Rahayu ◽  
Ayuni Ayuni
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Parametric Method ◽  
Juvenile Detention ◽  
Violent Behaviour ◽  
Violent Crimes ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Examination Result ◽  
Adverse Childhood

Violent crimes yield to fear and unsafe feelings have been also done by children. The General Strain theory explained that violence was occurred due to the criminal coping of individuals, who experienced the situation of pressures that yield into anger which might be developed into violent behaviour. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) is a form of pressure within the family that might contribute to criminal coping. This research was aimed at investigating the differences of ACE on violent crimes and non-violent crimes. Participants of this study were 58 out of 213 boy offenders aged 12-18 years old in the Juvenile Detention Center in Blitar. These participants were chosen by the accidental sampling method based on the type of cases, in which 28 boys were on violent crimes (robbery, child protection, murder, and beating), while 30 boys were on non-violent crimes (theft and drug abuses). The measurement used was the ACE scale, applied with some modifications. The reliability coefficient of the ACE scale was .843. Data were analysed using a non-parametric method, which was the Mann-Whitney U. The examination of mean rank and the effect size of this study showed that ACE was higher on violent crimes, even though this result was not supported by the hypothesis examination result, which was not significant (U = 3.47, p = .129). It could be concluded that ACE on the violent crimes group tended to be higher compared to the non-violent crimes group.

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Mental Health, and Risk Behaviors Among Men in the Solomon Islands

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 582-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paraniala Silas C. Lui ◽  
Michael P. Dunne ◽  
Philip Baker ◽  
Verzilyn Isom
Keyword(s):  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Risk Behaviors ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood

Compared with many parts of the world, there has been little research in Pacific Island nations into the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on adult health. This is a significant gap for local evidence-based child protection. We describe findings from a survey of 400 men aged 18 to 70 years recruited from randomly sampled households in Honiara city, Solomon Islands. Most men reported multiple adversities during childhood (80.7% 3 or more; 46% 5 or more), such as exposure to community and domestic violence, bullying, physical maltreatment, and sexual abuse. Men with multiple ACEs had significantly lower well-being and more psychological distress, recent stressful life events, and health risk behaviors. This study reports the first observation that betel quid chewing increased as a function of multiple ACEs. In comparison with recent East Asian studies, the Solomon Islands data suggest that the collective geographic category of “Asia-Pacific” masks significant intraregional differences in childhood adversities.

scholarly journals Assessing the Foundational Studies on Adverse Childhood Experiences

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitra Hartas
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Childhood Adversity ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Family Level ◽  
Foundational Research ◽  
The Uk

This article critically reviews the foundational studies carried out by Felitti in the US and Bellis in the UK and their colleagues examining the relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and adult health and morbidity. These studies have paved the way for much research on childhood adversity and its impact on child development and brain functioning at a family level. ACEs have gained traction in the UK in terms of policy targeting dysfunctional families through early intervention to stop the intergenerational effects of adverse childhood experiences. This article questions the foundational research that argues for family-level, parent-based intervention, especially in light of substantial evidence about the biological embedding of poverty and the direct links between disadvantage and child development. It also hopes to raise awareness about the contested nature of ACEs and their growing influence on family policy.

scholarly journals An Indonesian Adaptation of the World Health Organization Adverse Childhood Experiences International Questionnaire (WHO ACE-IQ) as a Screening Instrument for Adults

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Satwika Rahapsari
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Screening Instrument ◽  
World Health ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

There has been little research in Indonesia about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE). Whereas, research on this topic is urgently needed as the baseline for a national evidence-based child protection policy. Even though the worldwide prevalence of ACE is high, there is no comprehensive study in the Indonesian context in regards to ACE identification and the impact on the survivors’ mental and physical health. Therefore, an ACE screening instrument is urgently needed as the first step for conducting research on this topic. This research aims to examine the validity and reliability of the WHO ACE-IQ or the World Health Organization Adverse Childhood Experience International Questionnaire as an ACE screening instrument in Indonesia. The researcher conducted a cross-sectional survey in 240 participants aged 18-65 years old using an online self-administered questionnaire. The outcome of this research is the Indonesian adapted WHO ACE-IQ is able to provide a reliable, accurate, and valid score of ACE in the Indonesian adult population

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Early and Nonmarital Fertility, and Women’s Health at Midlife

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristi Williams ◽  
Brian Karl Finch
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Age At First Birth ◽  
First Birth ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have powerful consequences for health and well-being throughout the life course. We draw on evidence that exposure to ACEs shapes developmental processes central to emotional regulation, impulsivity, and the formation of secure intimate ties to posit that ACEs shape the timing and context of childbearing, which in turn partially mediate the well-established effect of ACEs on women’s later-life health. Analysis of 25 years of nationally representative panel data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY79; n = 3,893) indicates that adverse childhood experiences predict earlier age at first birth and greater odds of having a nonmarital first birth. Age and marital status at first birth partially mediate the effect of ACEs on women’s health at midlife. Implications for public health and family policy aimed at improving maternal and child well-being are discussed.

scholarly journals Making Scotland an ACE-informed nation

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-455
Author(s):  
Emma Davidson ◽  
Ariane Critchley ◽  
Laura H.V. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Early Years Education

In recent years, tackling Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) has become a central dimension of early years, education, youth and family policy. In this Scottish Affairs special issue, we discuss why this public policy has galvanized so much attention in Scotland, and the possible consequence its popularity might have in theory, policy and practice. How, for example, has ACE research shaped how policy is responding to poverty and social inequality? What moral judgements are made by the ACE-agenda, and how might it obscure alternative ways of thinking about the problem of adversity, and cultivating lasting solutions. With contributions from academics and practitioners across different disciplines and practice settings, the collection points to an ongoing need for critical engagement in ACE-policy, and a greater commitment to understanding how ACE-policy is being translated into different practice settings. While theoretical debates are important, future research must prioritise the experiences of practitioners, and those with lived experience of adversity.

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