How Adverse Childhood Experiences Impact Health and Well-being [YouthToday.org]

In the early 1980s, Dr. Vincent Felliti began noticing that many of his patients who were having extreme illnesses in their adult years had adverse childhood experiences. Much of his research is outlined in “Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal” (2015) by Donna Nakazawa. He worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to set up a research study, which asked the following questions...

[For more of this story, written by Ruby K. Payne, go to http://youthtoday.org/2015/08/...alth-and-well-being/]