The American Academy of Pediatrics has created several posters to use as conversation starters to recognize toxic stress and adverse childhood experiences in children and build their resilience.
Pediatricians are encouraged to hang the posters in their offices to use as conversation starters. Messages reflect the 15-year body of research that toxic stress is detrimental to a child’s brain architecture, and multiple adverse childhood experiences are a critical measure of lifelong damage.
By creating a welcoming environment for
discussion, the posters help pediatricians talk with parents about how their own adverse childhood experiences can affect their children and how to reverse the effects when a child is exposed to violence and other adverse experiences.
The posters -- in print-ready form -- are attached to this post.
Project activities are the result of work by the AAP Council on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention and Section on Child Abuse and Neglect through a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime. The project offers posters, as well as resources, links to AAP policies and a toolkit at www.aap.org/theresilienceproject.
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