ACEs
Potentially traumatic events that occur during childhood
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
This eating disorder is characterized by an intense fear of gaining weight and restrictive eating behaviors.
What is anorexia nervosa?
The most commonly used illicit drug among adolescents.
What is marijuana?
A behavior pattern that places an individual at risk of physical, emotional, or social harm.
What is self-destructive behavior?
The clinical term for self-harm without suicidal intent.
What is Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI)?
One in six adults experienced this many or more types of ACEs.
What is four or more ACEs?
This disorder involves episodes of binge eating followed by behaviors such as vomiting, fasting, or excessive exercise.
What is bulimia nervosa?
This product surpassed traditional cigarettes in popularity among teens beginning in 2014.
What are e-cigarettes or vaping devices?
Substance abuse, reckless driving, and staying in abusive relationships are examples of these.
What are self-destructive behaviors?
Approximately this percentage of adolescents engage in self-harm at least once.
What is 17% to 20%?
Youth offenders are this many times more likely to have at least one ACE that the general public.
What is 13 times more likely?
This eating disorder is driven by sensory concern or a lack of interest in good.
What is ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder)?
A severe vaping-related lung injury abbreviated as EVALI.
What is E-cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury?
This dangerous activity involves restricting oxygen to the brain to induce a brief high.
What is the Choking Game?
Self-harm behavior typically begins around this age.
What is age 13?
Besides family adversity, this type of adversity includes bullying, discrimination, and poverty.
What is community and social adversity?
This is the most commonly diagnosed eating disorder category and includes individuals who do not fully meet criteria for other eating disorders.
What is OSFED (Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders)?
The most commonly reported and dangerous pattern of alcohol consumption among adolescents.
What is binge drinking?
Deliberately picking fights or pushing others away to force rejection.
What is compulsive provocation?
This is one major reason teens self-harm to relieve overwhelming distress.
What is emotional regulation?
Each additional ACE increases violence perpetration risk by this percentage range.
What is 35% to 144%?
Pediatric eating disorder visits increased by this percentage between 2018 and 2022.
What is 107.4%?
Approximately this many young people under age 21 die from excessive alcohol use each year.
What is 4,000?
Drinking hand sanitizer and ingesting metal objects were documented examples of this category of behavior in Texas Juvenile Justice Department facilities.
What is substance misuse or self-destructive behavior?
Having friends who self-injure, social isolation, and mental health conditions are examples of these.
What are self-harm risk factors?