Haunted by Childhood Experiences: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Health

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sussie Eshun ◽  
Paul Bartoli
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Childhood Experiences

scholarly journals Childhood Adversity and Adult Health: The Role of Developmental Timing and Associations With Accelerated Aging

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madelon M. E. Riem ◽  
Annemiek Karreman
Keyword(s):  
Accelerated Aging ◽  
Childhood Adversity ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Fat Percentage ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Age Range

Childhood adversity has been associated with poor adult health. However, it is unclear whether timing of adversity matters in this association and whether adversity is related to poorer age-related physical health status. A representative sample of the adult Dutch population ( N = 3,586, age M = 54.94, age range = 18–92) completed surveys on health and diagnoses of age-related diseases. Information about weight and fat percentage was collected using weighing scales and childhood experiences were assessed retrospectively. Adversity was associated with higher body mass index and fat percentage, more physical problems, and high cholesterol, and this association was most pronounced in individuals with experiences of adversity during early adolescence. In addition, individuals with adversity more often reported physical problems or a medical diagnosis at a younger age. This study indicates that (1) timing of exposure to adversity matters in the relationship between experienced childhood adversity and health and (2) adversity is associated with a higher prevalence of age-related diseases at earlier ages.

scholarly journals The arrival of the ACEs movement in Scotland: Policy entrepreneurship and critical activist responses

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-474
Author(s):  
Gary M. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurs ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurship ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Adverse Childhood

This paper combines conceptual and documentary analysis to critique the recent introduction of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) in Scottish social policy, highlighting the role of the ACE-Aware Nation ‘movement’ and its positioning of the ACEs model through its campaigning activities. Consideration is given to the role of a sophisticated network of policy entrepreneurs and the commercial and political interests at play. Reflection is offered on the critical activist responses to this campaign that seek to highlight the socio-economic and political underpinnings of childhood trauma, which are largely absent in the ACEs model. The argument is that these policy developments amount to a recent turn to the ACEs model as a simplistic solution to complex social problems – a solution that is shown to be ultimately flawed in several respects. This analysis reveals the contradictions, conflicts and confusion that have emerged within the ACEs discourse, caused in the main by heuristic thinking and the conceptual inadequacies, misuses and misunderstandings of the ACEs model. The paper concludes that policy makers and practitioners should exercise caution in their appraisal of the ACEs model and the associated movement in Scotland.

Epilogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Murnaghan ◽  
Deborah H. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Fantasy Literature ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Pleasure Reading ◽  
Classical Mythology ◽  
Children And Young Adults

The preceding work is summed up as a study of adults’ attempts over a century-long period to make sense of their own childhood experiences of antiquity and to recreate those experiences for new generations through the medium of absorbing pleasure reading. Such experiences are valued for their capacity to stimulate the imagination, to expand moral understanding, to pave the way for further education, and to bring renewal or redemption to the disturbed modern world. The chapter ends with a brief survey of developments in classical mythology and historical fiction for children and young adults from the mid-1960s until the present, including the emergence of new forms of fantasy literature and the role of new media such as video games and fan fiction.

Early Adverse Childhood Experiences and Self-Control Development among Youth in Fragile Families

2021 ◽  
pp. 0044118X2199637
Author(s):  
Melissa S. Jones ◽  
Hayley Pierce ◽  
Constance L. Chapple
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Behavioral Outcomes ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Fragile Families ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Using Data

Though considerable research links both a lack of self-control and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to a variety of negative health and behavioral outcomes, few studies to date have explored whether ACEs are associated with deficits in self-control. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCW; n = 3,444) and a life course theoretical framework, this study aims to address this gap in the literature by examining the relationships between individual ACEs, cumulative ACEs, timing of ACEs, and durations of early ACEs and self-control development among youth. Our results indicate that as the number of ACEs (by age 5) experienced incrementally increases, the likelihood of reported self-control decreases. Moreover, when it comes to the timing and duration of ACE exposure, ACEs that are high but late, intermittent, or chronically high significantly decrease self-control. Based on our findings, researchers should continue to explore the role of ACEs in youth self-control development.

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