ACEs Study
This study explored how stressful or traumatic events in childhood link to health and well-being later in life.
What is the ACEs study?
This is what's known as the "stress hormone."
What is cortisol?
This is the first step in TIC, in which staff and the people they serve feel physically and psychologically this in their environment.
What is safe?
(Building safety)
This describes both children’s exposure to multiple traumatic events—often of an invasive, interpersonal nature—and the wide-ranging, long-term effects of this exposure.
What is complex trauma?
This approach is a structured psychotherapy treatment designed to help people heal from the emotional distress and symptoms associated with traumatic life memories, often involving the bilateral movement of the eyes.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)?
This is one example of an ACE.
What is physical, emotional or sexual abuse; emotional or physical neglect; domestic violence, parental substance abuse, divorce, mental illness, or incarceration?
This is an automatic physical reaction that prepares your body to deal with danger or severe stress.
What is the fight-or-flight response?
Decisions and operations are openly discussed to build this.
What is trust?
Complex PTSD is similar to acute PTSD in these ways.
What are symptoms of re-experiencing, avoidance, and hyperarousal symptoms; impact on daily life?
These are simple exercises that help pull your focus away from racing thoughts, panic, or flashbacks and anchor you back to the present moment.
What are grounding techniques?
The ACEs study found that the more adversity one experiences was correlated with this.
What is a strong increase in the risk of developing chronic adult physical illnesses?
This gland is a small, almond-shaped cluster of neurons located deep within the brain's temporal lobes that processes emotions, fear responses, and emotional memories. Chronic stress enlarges and hyperactivates this gland, making it hypersensitive and more reactive to minor triggers.
What is the amygdala?
Lived experience of others can help inspire this in people who have experienced traumatic events.
What is hope?
Complex PTSD is different from acute PTSD in these ways.
What is the root cause, not fully recognized yet, disturbances in self-organization?
This is often the first step in trauma-informed care.
What is building safety?
Overall, about this number of out every 10 adults report at least one ACE.
What is 6?
(63.9% of U.S. adults reported at least one ACE; 17.3% reported four or more ACEs)
This gland is a seahorse-shaped region of the brain located in the medial temporal lobe that is essential for learning, memory consolidation, and spatial navigation. Chronic stress physically shrinks and damages this gland by flooding the brain with prolonged levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
What is the hippocampus?
Encouraging this is important because this is often taken away in complexly traumatic situations.
What is choice?
Complex trauma can impact these life areas.
What are attachment, emotional regulation, dissociation, behavioral regulation, cognition, etc.?
This approach is is a practical, short-term form of talk therapy that helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. The trauma-focused approach helps clients recover from the negative effects of trauma, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
In addition to the work its done for the Covid-19 pandemic, this organization was also involved in the development of the ACEs study.
What is the Center for Disease Control (CDC)?
This is the part of the brain that is famously underdeveloped until around the person is in their mid-20s. Trauma reduces activity and volume in the this area, which weakens its ability to regulate emotional responses and control the brain's threat-detection center
What is the prefrontal cortex?
It is also important to take into consideration these types of issues, which includes historical and gender issues.
These types of traumatic events are often affilitated with complex trauma.
Childhood maltreatment, neglect, witnessing violence in the household, bullying, community violence, IPV, etc.
The trauma-informed focus of this approach is designed to help individuals stabilize and self-regulate before engaging in deeper trauma processing.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?