How to cope with adverse childhood experiences

It has become clearer to the medical community over recent decades that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have a significant impact on child health and also adult physical, emotional, social and behavioral health. But what are adverse childhood experiences?

Healthcare professionals and others who work with abused and neglected children — and the adults they eventually become — define these experiences as any combination of family dysfunction (substance abuse, mental illness, criminal activity, parental separation/absence and domestic violence), child abuse (physical, sexual or emotional abuse), and child neglect (physical and emotional neglect).

http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20140324/OPINION02/303240012/How-cope-adverse-childhood-experiences

Additional information on the conference:  http://international.uiowa.edu/research/child-protection