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This topic is worthy of deep discussion and yet I was severely disappointed to the point of embarrassment on behalf of Time with the shallow coverage in the piece.
By Alison Cebulla, PACEs Connection member
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My teenagers' dark and surly moods, my husband's anxiety, my mother's rare show of displeasure, and my father's anger and frugality, all had great power to destroy my peace of mind.
By Hilary Jacobs Handel, PACEs Connection member
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The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) is organizing trauma-informed advocates, activists, and stakeholders to urge their U.S. Senators and Representatives to support two bipartisan, bicameral bills that would significantly help prevent, address, and mitigate the negative impacts of trauma through community-based/led initiatives.
By Laura Braden Quigley, PACEs Connection member
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The first step in creating an online community for ACEs is to establish the most appropriate platform.
By Charlie Fletcher, PACEs Connection member
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The Trace
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The Imprint
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California Health Care Foundation
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Inside Climate News
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Associated Press
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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 6 of the 43 that she found for this week. You can read them all here.
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Swedo EA, Aslam MV, Dahlberg LL, et al.
Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among U.S. Adults - Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2011-2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2023;72(26):707-15. PMID: 37384554
From a CDC report of all 50 states and the District of Columbia, “Overall, 63.9% of U.S. adults reported at least one ACE, and 17.3% reported four or more ACEs. Experiencing four or more ACEs was most common among females (19.2%), adults aged 25-34 years (25.2%), non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native adults (32.4%), non-Hispanic multiracial adults (31.5%), adults with less than a high school education (20.5%), and those who were unemployed (25.8%) or unable to work (28.8%). Prevalence of experiencing four or more ACEs varied substantially across jurisdictions, from 11.9% (New Jersey) to 22.7% (Oregon).”
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Egge MK.
Medical Child Abuse: A Review by Subspecialty. Adv Pediatr. 2023;70(1):59-80. PMID: 37422298
“Medical child abuse (MCA), formerly called Munchausen syndrome by proxy, occurs when a caregiver, usually the mother, falsifies or exaggerates symptoms resulting in harm to a child through inappropriate medical care. MCA is underrecognized, underreported, and results in significant morbidity and mortality. Pediatrics subspecialists should consider MCA when unusual disease presentations do not respond to traditional treatments. This article reviews the more common diagnoses encountered in MCA cases by specialty.”
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Attrash-Najjar A, Tener D, Katz C.
"One Day It Will Be Over, and You Will See Other Landscapes. . . You Are Not Alone": Adult Survivors' Messages to Children Undergoing Child Sexual Abuse. J Interpers Violence. 2023:8862605231178496. PMID: 37431742
“371 written testimonies were provided to the Israeli Independent Public Inquiry on CSA…Although survivors were from diverse backgrounds, their messages to abused children were consistent…The results revealed five main messages emphasized by survivors to children experiencing CSA: (a) transferring the responsibility and guilt from children to perpetrators and society; (b) turning toward the light and continuing on; (c) disclosure is essential; (d) a happy life is possible; and (e) together we can survive…the survivors' desire to be there for the children emphasized the urgent need to promote the perception of survivors as key stakeholders in the field of child abuse and to integrate their experiences and perceptions into the formal and informal systems for children.”
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Mposhi A, Turner JD.
How can early life adversity still exert an effect decades later? A question of timing, tissues and mechanisms. Front Immunol. 2023;14:1215544. PMID: 37457711
“Exposure to any number of stressors during the first 1000 days from conception to age 2 years is important in shaping an individual's life trajectory of health and disease…early-life exposure to a stressor reduces the capacity of the immune system to generate subsequent generations of cells…leads us to the ‘stem cell hypothesis’ whereby exposure to adversity during a sensitive period, acts through a common mechanism in all the cell types by programming the tissue resident progenitor cells… This may consequently alter the destiny of these cells, producing the lifelong ‘supply’ of functionally altered fully differentiated cells.”
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Rau T, Mayer S, Allroggen M.
[Traumatic Experiences and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder of Adolescents in Boarding Schools]. Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie. 2023;72(5):446-65. PMID: 37455576
In this article in German, authors analyze data from 155 adolescents, 70% male, who had been in boarding school for an average of 3.26 years. 69.7% reported a traumatic experience while in school, and 33.5% met criteria for PTSD. Authors recommend screening procedures to identify traumatic experiences, and a need for further research on traumatic experiences directly related to boarding school.
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Wittenberg MF, Fitzgerald S, Pluhar E.
Depressive symptomatology in pregnant adolescents. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2023;35(4):415-22. PMID: 36988280
“The prevalence of depressive symptoms is higher among pregnant adolescents relative to nonpregnant adolescents and pregnant adults. Clinicians should screen all pregnant adolescents for depressive symptoms at least once during pregnancy if not more frequently, with additional attention to pregnant adolescents who meet one or more risk factors for prenatal depressive symptoms.” Risk factors include “adolescents who report lower levels of income, have a previous history of depression, childhood maltreatment, recent abuse, and/or chronic exposure to racial/ethnic discrimination.”
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PACEs Connection Special Announcement
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PACEs Connection has been in the throes of a powerful collaboration about trauma-informed awareness, resilience, relationship and community building and mobilization with the Resilient Yolo team. We’re days away from the 2023 Resilient Yolo Summit, a call to action for Yoloans to connect with neighbors, reflect on experiences, and act together for a trauma-informed and resilient Yolo.
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