Website/URL: http://www.tribalforensichealt...-impact-adult-health
Organized By: Tribal Forensic Healthcare
Presenter(s): Vincent J. Felitti, MD
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study has direct and important relevance to the practice of medicine and psychiatry, and to the field of social planning. The ACE Study challenges as needlessly superficial the conventional understanding of depression and addiction, showing these to have a powerful dose-response relationship to antecedent life experiences. Its findings indicate that much of what we recognize as abnormal in adult medicine and behavior is the result of what occurred but was not recognized in childhood. These observations lead us to recognize that any attempt at comprehensive medical care must include as part of its history a routine and standardized exploration of adverse childhood experiences. In doing so, we create a new platform of information upon which to base all ongoing primary medical care, converting it from its current symptom-reactive approach to the inclusive biopsychosocial concept proposed by Dr.George Engel.
Credits:
1.5 Nursing CE, 1.5 CEU. We are currently in the process of seeking CME. The planners, presenters, and content reviewers of this webinar disclose no conflict of interest relative to this educational activity. The International Association of Forensic Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. JBS International, Inc. is an approved provider through NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (Provider Number 000208).
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