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No. 24 November 2024
ACEs Measurement Advances
• Defining and distinguishing early life stress, trauma, adversity, toxic and chronic stress and allostatic load.
• Is there consensus on child violence exposure measures? A study of six recommended instruments.
• Let it go, let it go: Stop measuring child maltreatment as a binary yes/no
• Caregiver Report of Adverse Childhood Events: Comparison of Self-Administered and Telephone Questionnaires.
Welfare Concerns
• The independent review by Keith Makin of the abuse by John Smyth QC
• New Zealand offers ‘unreserved’ apology to 200,000 survivors of ‘horrific’ abuse in care
• Sara Sharif’s father ‘hit her like crazy’ and made her do sit-ups all night, court hears
• Children’s Mental Health Week: financial support for children and their families
• Schools in England and Wales use dogs and prize draws to lure absent pupils back
• Suicide-risk children refused places on NHS England waiting lists as services overwhelmed
• What sort of society rations support for children with special learning needs
• Knife wounds, arrests… then a friendly face: inside the anti-violence unit fighting to save children from crime
• More than 1m households to get £420 budget boost in universal credit change
Sexual Abuse Matters
• The Impact of a Public Health Campaign to Deter Viewing of Child Sexual Abuse Images Online: A Case Study of the UK Stop It Now! Campaign.
• Adolescents Who Have Been Sexually Abused: Trauma Symptoms and Self-Blame while Waiting for Treatment.
• “Nothing Was Done”: Experiences of continued sexual abuse after disclosing to a mandated reporter among youth in the United States.
• The nature and extent of youth sextortion: Legal implications and directions for future research.
• Understanding Child Sexual Exploitation Dynamics: Development and Validation of a Taxonomy of Recruitment and Domination Strategies.
• Working With Youth Who Have Experienced Commercial Sexual Exploitation: Voices From the Field.
• The relationship between commercial sexual exploitation and foster care placement in the U.S.: A scoping review.
• “It’s Not Love, Baby Doll. It’s Science”: Experiences of Trauma Bonding Among Survivors of Sex Trafficking.
• Sexual Offending: The Intrepid Professional-Adventurer and The Dejected Revenger-Victim.
Adversity Maltreatment, Child Abuse and Neglect in children and young people – Adverse and Positive Experiences
• Paediatric Hospital Admissions with Concern for Neglect: Correlations Between Neglect Types and Other Clinical and Environmental Risk Factors.
• Prevalence and Course of Unwanted, Intrusive Thoughts of Infant-Related Harm.
• Intimate Partner Violence and Depression Screening of Mothers with Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
• IPV against adolescent girls: regional and national prevalence estimates and associated country-level factors.
• Common and Unique Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence Victimization Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals Assigned Female at Birth.
• “The abuse of minors you witness or experience”: A qualitative study of former professional ballet school students’ characterizations of maltreatment.
• Early Life Adversity, Microbiome, and Inflammatory Responses.
Childhood Adversity and maltreatment, the impact on Child and Adolescent Mental and Physical Health
• Socio-economic inequality and Child and Adolescent Mental Health
• Impact of Parental Mental Health and Poverty on the Health of the Next Generation: A Multi-Trajectory Analysis Using the UK Millennium Cohort Study
• How much do adverse childhood experiences contribute to adolescent anxiety and depression symptoms? Evidence from the longitudinal study of Australian children
• Understanding the relationship between family income and conduct problems: findings from the mental health of children and young people survey
• Anxiety and Depression Symptoms, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Persistent/Recurrent Pain Across Early Adolescence.
• Self-Reported Adverse Childhood Experiences and Risk for Internalizing and Externalizing Difficulties among Adolescent Custodial Grandchildren.
• Sexual identity is associated with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in US early adolescents
• Maternal, prenatal and postnatal risk factors for early child physical abuse: a French nationwide cohort study.
• Risk and protective factors of youth crime. An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Childhood Adversity and maltreatment and impact on Adult Mental and Physical Health – Risk and Protective Factors.
• The influence of neuropeptide Y (NPY) on the relationship between emotion regulation and mood-related pathology in survivors of childhood interpersonal trauma.
• Childhood trauma, PTSD/CPTSD and chronic pain: A systematic review.
• Characterizing Chronic Pain and Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Queer Community.
• Childhood Trauma and Panic Disorder: The Impact of History of Child Abuse on Illness Severity and Treatment Response.
• Exposure to Childhood Adversity and Intimate Partner Violence in a Sample of Incarcerated Women in Australia.
• Childhood maltreatment is linked to larger preferred interpersonal distances towards friends and strangers across the globe.
• Positive and Negative Gender Role Beliefs and Intimate Partner Violence.
• Association between childhood abuse and risk of post- COVID-19 conditions: Results from three large prospective cohort studies.
Intervention and prevention
• Telehealth Delivery of the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention is Associated With Reduced Posttraumatic Stress in Children and Caregivers
• Comparing in Person to Telehealth Delivery of a Family Violence Intervention.
• Essential Care for Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence.
• Reducing risk factors for child maltreatment: The Parenting- STAIR open pilot study.
• Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences in a Sample of Largely Indigenous Children.
• Improving Outcomes for Vulnerable Children and Families: Applying what We Learned About the COVID-19 Pandemic and Child Maltreatment.
• Child Maltreatment During COVID-19: Key Conclusions and Future Directions Based on a Systematic Literature Review
• Effects of a behavioural intervention with foster families.
• The Impact of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga on Persons Who Are Incarcerated
• Emotion regulation and heart rate variability may identify the optimal post traumatic stress disorder treatment: analyses from a randomized controlled trial
• When the wounds heal but the soul bleeds-A lived experience narrative.
No. 23 October 2024
ACES measurement advances
• Verbal administration increases the accuracy of client’s histories
• Opening Pandora’s box key facilitators of practice change in detecting and responding to childhood adversity
Welfare Concerns
• Association and disparities of food insecurity and exposure to violence:
• Destitution in the UK 2023 Rowntree
• More than 9 million Britons vulnerable to reliance on food banks
• Children raised by friends or relatives are being ‘plunged into poverty’
• Halving violence against Women and Girls
• Doctors say UK’s immigration system risks ‘re-traumatising’ asylum seekers
• Teenagers as young as 13 are coming under suspicion of engaging in terrorism
• Like a sylvan spa!’ Inside Zurich’s staggering, revolutionary new hospital for kids
Sexual Abuse Matters
• Preventing sexual violence in sexual orientation and gender diverse communities: A call to action.
• Accessing child sexual abuse material CSAM: Pathways to offending and online behaviour.
• A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Treatments for Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Victims.
• Prevention of child sexual abuse in the United States: Scoping review of United States legislative policies.
• Exploring the roles of compassion and post-traumatic stress disorder on global distress after sexual trauma.
• Expanding the Sexual Experiences Survey to Include Technology Facilitated Sexual Exploitation
Adversity Maltreatment, Child Abuse and Neglect in children and young people – Adverse and Positive Experiences
• Intersections of Intimate Partner Violence and Natural Disasters: A Systematic Review of the Quantitative Evidence
• Implications of Exposure to IPV in Childhood.
• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Unhoused Children Increase Odds of Psychiatric Illness, Physical Illness, and Psychiatric Admission
• Global prevalence of violence against children and adolescents during COVID-19: A meta-analysis.
• Child maltreatment in children with medical complexity and disability.
• Rates of Recent Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Indigenous Children.
• Early Life Adversity Predicts Reduced Hippocampal Volume in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.
• A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Meta-Analysis of Childhood Trauma.
• Pilot Study on Classification of Sensory Symptoms in PTSD.
• A new measure of feeling safe: Developing psychometric properties of the Neuroception of Psychological Safety Scale (NPSS).
• Violence Exposure and Trauma Screener for Youth (VETSY).
Childhood Adversity and maltreatment, the impact on Child and Adolescent Mental and Physical Health
• Adverse childhood experiences and externalizing, internalizing, and prosocial behaviours in children and adolescents: A longitudinal study.
• Associations of adverse childhood experiences with depression and anxiety among children in the United States: Racial and ethnic disparities in mental health
• Maternal adverse childhood experiences, child resilience factors, and child mental health problems: A multi-wave study
• Parental Legal System Involvement, Positive Childhood Experiences, and Suicide Risk.
• The effects of adverse and positive experiences on cardiovascular health in Australian children.
• Do We Belong? Examining the Associations Between Adolescents’ Perceptions of School Belonging, Teacher Discrimination, Peer Prejudice and Suicide.
Childhood Adversity and maltreatment and impact on Adult Mental and Physical Health – Risk and Protective Factors.
• Gut-Brain Axis: Role of Microbiome, Metabolomics, Hormones, and Stress in Mental Health Disorders.
• The effects of childhood adversity on twenty-five disease biomarkers and twenty health conditions in adulthood.
• Childhood and Adolescent Depression Symptoms and Young Adult Mental Health and Psychosocial Outcomes
• Hospital admissions and community health service contacts for mental illness following self-reported child maltreatment: Results from the Childhood Adversity and Lifetime Morbidity (CALM) study.
• More Than What You Eat: A Review on the Association Between Childhood Maltreatment and Elevated Adult BMI.
• Stressful life events and the occurrence of skin cancer.
• Contextualizing risk, pathways, and solutions for the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and type 2 diabetes among inner-city African Americans.
• Examination of race-based traumatic stress symptom networks in Black adults in the United States: A network analysis.
Intervention
• A Realist Evaluation of a “Whole Health” Response to Domestic Violence and Abuse in the UK
• A focus on perpetrators of intimate partner violence in mental health settings is urgently needed.
• High School Follow-Up of the Dating Matters RCT: Effects on Teen Dating Violence and Relationship Behaviours.
• Which battering interventions work? An updated Meta- analytic review of intimate partner violence treatment outcome research.
• Evaluation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Essentials for Parenting Toddlers and Preschoolers on parent behavioural outcomes.
• Parenting Interventions That Promote Child Protection and Development for Preschool-Age Children with Developmental Disabilities.
• Telehealth Parenting Program and Salivary Epigenetic Biomarkers in Preschool Children With Developmental Delay
• Evaluation of an Embedded Health Psychologist Intervention for Obstetric Patients With Adverse Childhood Experiences.
• Beneficial effects of mindfulness-based intervention on hippocampal volumes and episodic memory for childhood adversity survivors.
• Intersection of adverse childhood experiences, suicide and overdose prevention
• Conceptualizing and Measuring Trust, Mistrust, and Distrust: Implications for Advancing Health Equity and Building Trustworthiness.
• Trauma Informed Care
No. 22 September 2024
Adverse child experiences research the path forward
• Adverse childhood experiences and associations with mental health substance abuse and violence in sub–Saharan Africa
Welfare concerns
• The Cure for an NHS in a dire condition
• The continuing mental health crisis, referrals for anxiety hits the highest level
• More 25% are reporting lower life satisfaction in the UK
• Housing instability and children’s health and education in the US
• Increasing rates of suspension from schools following the pandemic
• Developing relationships with pupils reduces suspensions
• Suspended secondary pupil twice as likely to be out of work at 24
• Screen time at one year, communication and problem-solving developmental delay at 2 to 4 years
• Developing trauma informed services in Anglesey
• Half 1 million children face Holiday hunger if crisis fund is ditched
• The rights of children with special education needs – the crisis in funding
• Young people becoming addicted to ketamine is a national problem
Sexual abuse matters
• Increases in reporting following mandatory reporting in Australia
• Ireland set to set up enquiry into sexual abuse at schools run by religious orders
• Sexual harassment in schools
• College faculty experiences with student disclosures of victimisation
• Sexual exploitation of young man life course perspective
• Descriptive data of transgender and non-binary peoples experience of sexual assault
• Child and Adolescent exposure to sexual harassment
• Adolescence and sexual assault, a critical integrative review
• Risk factors of sexual violence perpetration and victimisation among adolescents
• An analysis of sibling sexual abuse
• A meta-analysis of perpetrators identity in online crimes against children
• Prevalence of technology facilitated abuse among sexual and gender minority use
• Online sexual abusive children with disabilities
• Sexual abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder in childhood, adolescence and young adults
• Sexual assault a matrix of harm, negative narration of their whole lives
Adversity Maltreatment, Child Abuse and Neglect in children and young people – Adverse and Positive Experiences
• The global issue of violence towards children in the context of war
• Food insecurity is a source of toxic stress
• Child and Adolescent health the role of adverse and positive childhood experiences
• Social media threats, and health amongst adolescence
• Prevalence and Correlates of unstable housing among US children
• Time sensitive and dose responsive association between corporal punishment and sleep disturbances
• Child to parent violence and abuse a scoping review
• People with intellectual disability and their risk of exposure to violence. a literature review
• The global prevalence of non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behaviours of runaway and homeless children a meta- analysis
• Brain structures and functional connectivity of neglected children
• A scoping review of factors associated with the mental health of young people who have aged out of the welfare system
Childhood Adversity and Maltreatment, the impact on Child and Adolescent Mental and Physical Health
• Benefits and harm of proposed legislation on social media
• Understanding the impact of ACEs on non-suicidal self-injury in youth systematic review
• Prospective study of multi domain resilience among youth with or without maltreatment histories
• Adverse experiences, gender and suicide reality among high school students
• Dissociation is a mechanism of risk for interpersonal victimisation amongst the adolescent girls
• The role of Maternal and ACEs on Infant neglect a prospective approach
• Patterns of intimate partner violence exposure across the first 10 years of life, and emotional behavioural outcomes
• Lifetime victimisation experiences, depression, suicidality, and loneliness in young people
• Risk for admission to juvenile detention the role of trauma exposure
• Criminal outcomes amongst the infants placed out of home care – a longitudinal study
• Neuro -imaging adolescence PTSD risk of substance abuse disorders
Childhood Adversity and maltreatment and impact on Adult Mental and Physical Health – Risk and Protective Factors.
• Trajectories of inflammation in youth and the risk of mental and cardio metabolic disorders
• The Association between psychological resilience and all-cause mortality
• Bullying victimisation and ACEs retrospective reports of impact on emotional distress
• The association between ACEs bullying victimisation and internalising and externalising problems
• Expanding ACEs to include school bullying, poverty and disasters
• Prevalence of positive childhood experiences amongst adults
• Promotive and protective community related positive childhood experiences
• Associations of adverse and positive experiences amongst emerging adults
• Impact of ACEs in young adults and adults’ systematic literature review
• The influence of malevolent, creativity and young adulthood
• Epigenetic mechanisms learning linking early life adversities and mental health
• Childhood treatment and mediated anxiety and PTSD following adult trauma
• Understanding of adversities and association with adult health outcomes a regression tree analysis
Intervention
• Therapeutic support for neuro diverse children who experienced interpersonal trauma
• Viewing nature scenes positively affect recovery of autonomic function following acute stress
• Reaching the unreachable, intensive mobile treatment, an innovative model of community mental health
• Interventions that prevent respond to intimate partner violence against women, and violence against children, a systematic review
• The effectiveness of interventions to prevent and reduce treatment in high income countries a review
• Moving out of your mind and into your body yoga buffers the effect of maltreatment
• The moderating and mediating role of responsive parenting, explaining the links between IPV and PTSD symptoms in young children
• Supporting the Grieving Child and Family clinical approaches
• Service evaluation of an independent domestic violence advocate in the Children’s Hospital
• Co-Designing workshops with families experiencing multiple and interacting adversities
• Parenting interventions that promote child protection and development for preschool age children with developmental disabilities
No.21 July 2024
Child Care, Welfare stresses and Prevention
• Special issue of Child Abuse and neglect – the epidemiology risk factors and impacts of ACEs in Low- and Middle-income countries
• A working paper on the theme of the essential nature of water for life
• Poor access to outdoor play at school, associated with higher risks of developing lifelong health problems
• Playing fields sold off, swimming pools closed state school children don’t have a sporting chance
• Children are facing a brutal loss of time and space for play at state schools
• Teenagers are crying out for return of youth clubs
• The huge rise in working households pushed into poverty
• UK children shorter fatter and sicker, associated with poor diet and poverty
• Homeless families are permanently forced to accept a private tenancy or face being left out on the streets
• Poor high ability UK children fall behind their peers at school from aged 11
• How one school has welcomed and learned from refugees, the role of the International Rescue committee
• Dirty air is the second biggest killer globally
• Teachers and GPS staggering under extra demands act as emergency food providers welfare advisors and housing officers
• Mental health is the main cause of rising absences in England states headteachers, higher than those before the pandemic
• Drug cartels forced migrant children to work as foot soldiers in Europe’s booming cocaine trade – unaccompanied children many went missing
• The goal of US Safe Care plans to support substance exposed infants, contrasts with UK Drug and Alcohol Courts
• The prevalence, circumstances and experiences of parents with Learning Disabilities in Care Proceedings
• Despite changes in law and court practise in domestic abuse contexts, contact is ordered with few if any workable safety measures continuing harm results
Adversity and associations with children and young people’s mental physical health and development
• The burden of mental disorders and suicide attributable to child maltreatment
• How much do adverse childhood experiences contribute to adolescent anxiety and depression symptoms evidence from a longitudinal study- bullying victimisation, and parental psychological stress are significant
• Association between ACEs and academic performance amongst children and adolescents a global meta-analysis
• Differences in the global prevalence of non-suicidal self-injury NSSI in adolescence
• A Swedish adoption study of adverse stress responses and Post Traumatic Stress Disorders
• Transmission of mental disorders in adolescent peer group
• Global prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents an emerging worldwide health concern
• Developmental timing of child maltreatment in relation to Obesity and Substance Use Disorder in late adolescence
• Smartphones and social media need to be framed as commercial determinants of health to be regulated effectively
• The association between aces and lifetime history of head or neck injury and concussion in children
• The role of alexithymia in the association between cumulative childhood maltreatment and teen dating violence victimisation
• A randomised controlled trial of a school-based curriculum that teaches about multiple forms of abuse more frequent shorter lessons are more effective
Aces adversity and positive childhood experiences associations with adult physical mental health and development
• Childhood centeredness is a broader predictor of young adulthood mental health than child adversity, attachment, and other positive childhood experiences
• Childhood adversity subtypes and young adults who had mental health problems- unpacking effects of maltreatment, family dysfunction and peer victimisation
• Duration of Maternal Substance use and the mediating role of Social Support a longitudinal analysis demonstrating increased odds of drug use
• Ranking the 10 ACEs and the long-term consequences to health relatedhealth-related quality of life, family mental illness the most important ACE
• Protective factors following cumulative childhood adversity
• Protective factors for psychosocial outcomes following cumulative childhood adversity, social support, education and personality
• Positive childhood experiences are protective factors for mental health in Pandemic youth with ACEs experiences
• Social determinants of mental health in major depressive disorder, an Umbrella review Early Life Adversities and instability
• Insights into child abuse and neglect from the Minnesota longitudinal study of risk and adaptation
• Admissions for psychosis following agency notified child maltreatment at 40 years follow up
• From childhood maltreatment to intimate partner violence perpetration, the roles of executive functioning and self esteem
• Childhood Neglect, the neglected trauma a systemic review and meta-analysis of its prevalence in psychiatric disorders
• ACEs and depression, the role of gut microbiota and relationships with immuno-inflammatory and neuroendocrine pathways
• Effects of trauma history on cancer related screening diagnosis and treatment
• Suicidal ideations in patients with diabetes and child abuse childhood abuse the mediating role of personality functioning
Neurobiology of trauma and adversity
• The distinct biological impacts of parent child relationship dynamics on preschool children who have experienced adversity
• Genes and rearing what explains Intergenerational Transmission of PTSD
• Maternal PTSD as a risk factor for offspring ADHD a Swedish cohort study
• Aspects of area deprivation in relation to hippocampal volume; school environment may have a moderating impact
• Epigenetic responses to non-chemical stressors potential molecular links to perinatal health outcomes
Adversity and the impact of racism
• Racial discrimination and risk for internalising and externalising behaviour
• A qualitative examination of the normalisation, embodiment and psychological impact of everyday racism
• The prevalence of ACEs among justice involved youth in the US, the importance of accounting for race, ethnicity and gender
• Exploring experiences of anti-racism teaching in medical residency programmes
Update on the screening and evaluation
• Mandates and incentives to support social needs screening- challenges and opportunities
• The margins matter -screening for social risk factors, and this and the social determinants of health
• Utilising screening as a trauma responsive approach in paediatric healthcare
• Evaluating the psychometric properties of the sexual and gender minority aces scale
No. 20 June 2024
Child Care, Welfare stresses and Prevention
• Investing in early childhood development equips a generation of people with improved social and emotional skills.
• An effective approach to tackling knife crime helps victims with education, mental health, protection and support.
• Two thirds of families with young children have been in B&B for more than the legal six weeks, no space to crawl, play or learn to use a potty.
• A community study demonstrates a 4.51 greater association between ACEs and unmet health needs.
• Primary teachers in England spend their own money to help pupils arriving at school hungry and without adequate clothing.
• There is insufficient evidence to balance benefits and harms of Primary care interventions to prevent child maltreatment.
• Struggling to stem the tide of child maltreatment there is a need for ongoing efforts to protect vulnerable children.
• The Edinburgh Child Protection data set will allow maltreated children to be followed up throughout the life course.
Sexual abuse matters
• The Childlight study reports those perpetrating sexually harmful behaviours would seek sexual contact if certain no one would find out.
• Met chief says millions of men are a danger to women and girls.
• Research on Sexting the sharing of self-made sexual images by young people is very risky.
• ACEs and sexual risk taking – nonconsensual and consensual sexual experiences are markedly more common among young people with high ACEs.
• Youth in foster care have significant barriers to disclosure of CSA however rates are concerning.
• The challenge of helping young children learn to recognise potential perpetrators especially those described as good people.
• Fostering social support spirituality and a sense of control facilitates post traumatic growth.
• Victims of technology assisted CSA have heightened feelings of shame and guilt.
• Reproductive coercion a type of violence exerting control over reproductive autonomy -coerced abortion forced continuation of pregnancy.
• Children with disabilities experience CSA two to four times more than children without disabilities.
• Despite growing awareness of CSA in sport and preventative interventions, CSA still occurs at alarming rates.
• CSA prevention starts with data and helps curb the tide of child sexual violence.
Adversity and associations with children and young people’s mental and physical health and development
• Children subject to Parental harshness, poverty, separation, loss and crowded housing have lower neurocognitive scores.
• Children in contexts with high socio-economic deprivation experienced worst developmental health outcomes, mental health, cognitive development and physical health.
• Modifiable protective factors and pathways of transmission are being identified which affects the transmission of ACEs.
• Youth psychiatric populations are characterised by experiences of bullying, emotional abuse, physical abuse sexual abuse greater in female adolescents.
• Early life experiences of IPV associated with lower social skills and behaviours at 10 years.
• Interdisciplinary approaches are needed to adequately address the breadth of impact of violence exposure during early adolescence.
• Substance abuse was highest when there were linked family stresses, and not feeling safe in school.
• Shared reading storytelling and singing is associated with improved school readiness, whether ACEs are present or not.
• In children and young people suffering Asthma, severe wheeze limiting speech and exercise increased with each additional reported adversity.
• The prescense of cancer risk behaviours smoking, alcohol misuse, and obesity are higher in those young people with higher aces.
ACEs adversity and associations with adult physical mental health and development
• Adverse experiences in childhood and adulthood and associations with adult mental health outcomes.
• Adult childhood experiences associated with personality disorders – a perospective longitudinal study.
• Bipolar disorder and cumulative trauma – a systematic review of prevalence and outcomes.
• Adverse childhood experiences and risk of multiple sclerosis – a review of potential mechanisms.
• Experiential elements of early stress are described which inform the resilience buffering effects of control ability, and predictability.
• ACEs and persistent insomnia during emerging adulthood, and the role of Positive Childhood Experiences.
• A prospective cohort study of adverse childhood and adult experiences and risk of new onset cardiovascular disease, with consideration of social support.
• Partitioning the composition of ACEs from accumulated adversity.
• Prospective cohort studies exploring the impact of physical and sexual abuse on the risk of hospitalisation for physical and mental illnesses.
• Differential association of ACEs and mental health outcomes in U.S. military veterans.
• Association between ACEs and self-reported health risk behaviours among cancer survivors – a population-based study.
Neurobiology of trauma and adversity
• The Genomic perspective of PTSD exploring biological mechanisms to identify specific therapeutic targets.
• Functional connectivity changes in the brain of adolescents with Internet addiction, results similar to substance abuse and gambling addiction.
• Positive parenting moderates the associations between childhood stress and corticolimbic structures, provides a stable environment to learn social skills, support and cognitive and behavioural regulation.
• Adverse life experiences and brain functioning – a meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance image – exaggerated adult reactivity in brain regions that detect threat and reduction in regions that contribute to cognitive emotional control.
• Childhood adverse life events affect skeletal muscle mitochondrial functioning, a possible mechanism that influences health and physical well-being.
• Neuroimmune network model of depression demonstrates dysregulation and chronic stress information is associated with dysphoria, distress, and anhedonia.
• Anhedonia – diminished pleasure and motivation – emerges during adolescence and is a pernicious symptom related to psychopathology.
Update on the screening and evaluation
• Routine screening for ACEs still does not make sense despite their importance, high quality prevention and intervention research should be the priority.
• Implementation and evaluation of ACEs screening in paediatrics and obstetrics settings is feasible, meaningful trauma informed conversations do not require excessive time.
• Public health and school partnerships are effective for local surveillance of positive childhood experiences, establishing their prevalence.
• Clinician and staff perspective on implementing ACEs screening found to be feasible acceptable and beneficial within paediatric care to improve trauma informed care.
• ACEs screening in health care settings in paediatric primary care can lead to trauma informed care to curtail the cascading effects of trauma.
• Child reported family violence a systemic review of available instruments, whole family screening and assessment framework required.
Intervention-trauma informed approaches
• Helping organisations to transform from burnout to trauma informed resilience, and trauma informed care creates a healing milieu and optimal outcomes.
• A brief intervention in primary care improves parents’ discipline practises, and reaches other caregivers.
• Examining the effects of ACEs and gender on trauma informed intervention outcomes, demonstrates the value and limitations of the ARC attachment, self-regulation and competence competency framework.
• Application of ACEs trauma informed framework to the NICU Neonatal Intensive Care skin to skin care, and active participation of parents.
• The sustainably of effective implementing social determinants of health interventions in the paediatric emergency department.
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