Childhood abuse or family instability can significantly cut your savings later in life, but certain retirement strategies and programs like Social Security and SNAP may help offset the gap.

Schools should be ideal places for children who have faced trauma to process their experiences. Yet too often, school systems ...

Despite growing awareness, many clinicians remain reluctant to screen for trauma, according to Dr Melinyshyn. Concerns like ...

I was recently working with a young mother who struggled with depression and anxiety in the difficult year following the birth of her child. In addition to managing the herculean task of adjusting to ...

What Are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)? Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can potentially cause trauma. ACEs aren’t specific. They can include any distressful event between birth and age 17.

In 1995, a research team in Southern California launched an inquiry into how the challenges people experience during their younger years impact them as adults. They asked approximately 17,000 adults ...

I, Setareh Harsamizadeh Tehrani, remember the sound of my parents fighting when I was a child, glasses shattering. I was experiencing something known as an adverse childhood experience, but I didn’t ...

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are considered one of the most powerful determinants of the public’s health due to the breadth of impacts. Please join Council for Youth Development Bartholomew ...

When I was twelve, I was coming home from swimming at my neighbor’s dock when I saw an ambulance’s flashing lights in our driveway. I still remember the asphalt burning my feet as I stood, paralyzed, ...

Racism can have deleterious effects and should be treated by pediatricians as an adverse childhood experience with significant physical and behavioral ramifications, according to Adiaha ...