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Our beloved friend and former PACEs Connection staff member, Cissy White, died peacefully in Weymouth, MA, on Sunday morning, surrounded by family and friends.
By Jane Stevens, PACEsConnection.com publisher
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The best contacts I have ever met are all followers of PACES, and I was shocked to find such a wonderful source of important information AND such fabulous humans all in one place.
By Carey Sipp, PACEsConnection.com director of strategic partnerships
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So much of what’s happening at the individual level we can see within systems.
By Christine Gibson, PACEsConnection.com member
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Individuals who have experienced intergenerational trauma may also have difficulty forming healthy relationships, trusting others, and feeling a sense of belonging.
By Gayatree Dipchan, PACEsConnection.com member
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The New Yorker
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Inside Climate News
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The Washington Post
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The Guardian
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MindSiteNews
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Ed. note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a website — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the health effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs science. Every month, she posts summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only PACEs. Here are 5 of the 32 that she found for this week. You can read them all here.
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Bullinger LR, Boy A, Feely M, et al.
Home, but Left Alone: Time at Home and Child Abuse and Neglect During COVID-19.
Journal of family issues. 2023;44(2):338-62. PMID: 36743830
Using Georgia data during the pandemic, “referrals plummeted by 58% relative to previous years, driven by fewer referrals from education personnel. After this initial decline, however, each 15 minutes at home was associated with an increase in referrals of material neglect by 3.5% and supervisory neglect by 1%...Supervisory neglect is difficult for CPS to address, especially in the context of COVID-19 where there are limited resources to fix the novel issues facing families…This finding points to the need for greater resources to support parents and children inside their homes.”
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de la Rosa R, Zablotny D, Ye M, et al.
Biological Burden of ACEs in Children.
Psychosom Med. 2023 Feb-Mar 01;85(2):108-117. PMID: 36728584
Authors used a framework of physiologic “allostatic load” (measuring metabolic, immune, neurologic, and cardiovascular blood markers of health) in 207 children to assess the burden of ACEs, with increased allostatic load especially correlated with caregiver mental illness, poorer perceived general health, and increased odds of child obesity.
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Kovacs AH, Vervoort D, Lopez KN.
Moving beyond lifestyle: the case for childhood adversity, social determinants of health, and psychosocial factors in cardiovascular risk prediction.
Eur Heart J. 2023;44(7):594-7. PMID: 36480299
In this editorial, “We believe there is currently a disproportionate emphasis on CVD risk factors at the individual level and an under-focus on larger societal factors…Now is the time to reconsider adverse childhood experiences, social determinants of health, and psychosocial factors previously used to represent risk modifiers and convert them to formal CVD risk factors and metrics for modelling; these three domains are inter-related with one another as well as with traditional lifestyle risk factors.”
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Storrie CL, Kitissou K, Messina A.
The Effects of Severe Childhood Physical and Sexual Abuse on Adult Socioeconomic Prosperity.
Journal of child & adolescent trauma. 2023;16(1):55-68. PMID: 36776634
Using national data, “We find adults who suffered physical abuse in childhood are more likely to live in poverty. Adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse are less likely to finish high school and more likely to live in poverty. The likelihood of high school noncompletion increases when the individual suffered both forms of abuse…the negative socioeconomic impact in adulthood is larger for women than for men.”
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Pernebo K, Almqvist K.
Reduced Posttraumatic Stress in Mothers Taking Part in Group Interventions for Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence.
Violence Vict. 2023 Feb 1;38(1):130-147. PMID: 36717191
“This study investigated whether interventions for children exposed to intimate partner violence combining parallel groups for children and mothers contribute to positive outcomes for partaking mothers. 39 Swedish mothers reported medium- to large-sized decrease in psychological symptoms, including symptoms of posttraumatic stress, postintervention. During the follow-up period, sustained and further decrease of symptoms was reported. Mothers also reported decreased exposure to violence. Results indicate that these child-focused programs have major and sustainable positive effects on mothers' psychological health.”
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