ACES: Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences

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• Personal Author:
  Morelli, Vincent ; O'Hara, Heather
• Description:
  Traumatic experiences contribute to conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorder. Research supports that children who undergo circumstances such as child abuse, poverty, or even emotional or physical neglect are more likely to have poor health outcomes and display unhealthy behaviors. Adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, are the terminology that encompasses these circumstances. Felitti and Anda describe the advanced understanding of the detrimental and additive effects of ACEs in their landmark study of middle-class Kaiser-Permanente patients from 1998. Since this time, increased awareness of traumatic childhood events has slowly permeated the healthcare industry. One prominent pediatrician, Nadine Burke Harris, MD, advocates for the use of screening questionnaires as one way to explore nonmedical reasons for health and social issues in children. However, recognizing that these events can be different when considering low, middle, and high socioeconomic situations and populations, there are several versions of the ACE screen to account for this diversity. This chapter provides a brief historical perspective of adverse childhood experiences and explores the present understanding of screening, mitigation, and prevention modalities. It is meant to assist with increasing awareness, encouraging utilization, and improving health and behavioral outcomes of children, adults, and communities. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Behavior Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Violence
• Keywords:
  Abuse ACE Prevention ACE Resources ACE Screening Adolescents Adolescent Screening Adverse Childhood Experiences Author Keywords: ACE Children Medical Screening Mental Health Post-traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Questionnaires Trauma-informed Care

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• ISBN:
  9780323661300
• Publisher:
  Elsevier
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Chapter
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 4 ; Tennessee
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  10 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066967
• Citation:
  Adolescent health screening: an update in the age of big data. Morelli V ed. Saint Louis, MO: Elsevier, 2019 May; :75-82
• Editor(s):
  Morelli V
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20080701
• Source Full Name:
  Adolescent health screening: an update in the age of big data
• End Date:
  20270630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230631/cdc_230631_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 868.59 KB ]