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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Life-Long Impact
- 1st Edition - August 8, 2023
- Authors: Ami Rokach, Shauna Clayton
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 8 5 3 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 0 6 7 - 6
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Life-Long Impact explores how these experiences influence cognitive, behavioral and social experiences in adulthood. The book concep… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdverse Childhood Experiences and Their Life-Long Impact explores how these experiences influence cognitive, behavioral and social experiences in adulthood. The book conceptualizes the types of violence, abuse, neglect, and/or trauma that factor into ACEs. It also explores the psychopathological outcomes of ACEs among children, including neurodevelopmental and psychosocial mechanisms. By drawing on cross-cultural perspectives, the authors provide insight into the variations between the adversity and trauma children experience. Sections also cover preventive measures, risk factors and various forms of interventional treatment, making this book a core read for psychologists, physicians, social workers, educators and researchers in the field.
- Provides a comprehensive framework for understanding adverse childhood experiences
- Reviews the link between ACE and homelessness, substance abuse, and physical and/or sexual violence in adulthood
- Highlights key components of cross-cultural perceptions on child abuse and neglect, including differences of gender
- Explores options for prevention and intervention for those who experience adverse childhood experiences
Clinicians and researchers in the area of developmental and clinical psychology and psychiatry
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Prologue: The criticalness of disentangling adverse childhood experiences
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Adverse childhood experiences
- Chapter 2. Child maltreatment – cross culturally
- A case study
- Child maltreatment cross-culturally
- Global prevalence of maltreatment
- Chapter 3. What causes adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)?
- Case study
- Poverty
- Homelessness
- Parents who suffered abuse as children
- Medical child abuse
- Child disability
- Intimate partner violence
- The impact of war
- Chapter 4. Physical child abuse
- Case study
- Child abuse defined
- Causes of child abuse
- Interactional variables
- Environmental/life stress variables
- Social/cultural/economic variables
- Assessing risk for physical abuse
- Poisoning the child
- When the abused child dies
- Related illnesses
- Behavioral indications of abused children
- The tasks parents have not learned
- Adolescents abused by parents
- Abusive siblings
- Bullying and peer violence
- Chapter 5. Child sexual abuse
- Case study
- A need for a unified child sexual abuse definition
- Child sexual abuse globally
- Abuse characteristics
- The profile of the abused child
- The traumatic effect of sexual abuse
- Effects of sexual abuse
- The progression of sexual abuse
- Intrafamilial CSA dynamic
- The perpetrator
- Intrafamilial abuse
- Extrafamilial sexual abuse
- The effect of CSA on men
- CSA and later revictimization
- CSA and further victimization
- Maternal and child CSA history: intergenerational transmission
- Online child sexual abuse
- Institutional sexual abuse of children
- Child sexual abuse disclosures: what facilitates it and what is an obstacle
- CSA disclosure and parental reaction
- Barriers to disclosure of CSA
- Protective factors
- Treatment of sexual abuse
- Sexual abuse and prevention in developing countries
- Chapter 6. Medical child abuse
- From—case description
- Prevalence of medical abuse
- Common neurological manifestations
- Circumstances that may warrant a diagnosis of MCA
- Characteristics of the perpetrator
- The perpetrators
- The motivation of the perpetrator
- The internet and MCA
- What are the most recommended treatment options?
- Treatment outcome
- Safety plan and plan for reunification
- Individual therapy for other family members or friends
- Who are FD patients?
- Factors involved in diagnosing FD
- Chapter 7. Emotional maltreatment: abuse is not just physical
- Emotional maltreatment and resilience
- Active and passive emotional abuse
- Child emotional abuse
- Defining psychological and emotional maltreatment
- Active and passive emotional abuse
- Emotional abuse, anxiety, and the brain
- Emotional abuse, self-esteem, and loneliness
- Emotional abuse as a consequence of domestic violence
- Misconceptions about child emotional abuse in domestically violent homes
- Consequences of emotional abuse
- Childhood emotional maltreatment and problematic social media use
- The effect of emotional abuse on romantic relationships
- The effect of childhood emotional abuse on stress reactivity
- Mother's maltreatment in childhood and the effect on her kids
- Emotional maltreatment and resilience
- Emotional abuse and social support network
- Chapter 8. Bullying
- Case study
- Bullying at school
- Socioecological framework for bullying
- Prevalence of bullying
- Categories of bullying
- Cyberbullying
- Consequences of bullying
- Chapter 9. The various ways of child neglect
- Prevalence
- What is child neglect?
- Forms of child neglect
- Child neglect globally
- Neglect cross culturally
- Intergenerational child abuse and neglect
- Family profiles of child neglect
- Causes of child neglect
- The neglecting parents
- The neglected child
- Consequences of neglect
- Preventing child neglect
- Protecting children from neglect
- Chapter 10. Children exposed to ACE: The trauma and its aftermath
- ACE and household dysfunction
- Developmental consequences of child maltreatment trauma
- Toxic stress and trauma
- Trauma in childhood and psychopathology
- Child abuse and how it affects executive functions
- Physiological response to the stress and trauma of abuse
- Trauma and hyperarousability
- ACE, trauma, and later adverse outcomes
- Neurological and hormonal consequences of traumatic child abuse
- Intergenerational transmission of trauma
- Consequences of traumatic sexualization
- Trauma, ACE, and early sexual initiation
- ACE, trauma, and asthma
- Childhood trauma and auditory hallucinations
- ACE, trauma, and eating disorders
- Childhood trauma and suicidality
- Child abuse in residential care settings
- Chapter 11. Implications and outcomes of ACEs
- Case study
- The ACE pyramid
- Sexual intimacy difficulties
- Child abuse and its effect on adult couple functioning
- ACEs and psychosocial well-being
- ACEs and personality disorder
- Effects of trauma on child brain development
- Epigenetics and the effects of trauma on the body
- Cognitive effects
- Long term effects
- Chapter 12. ACEs throughout the lifespan
- Case study
- Consequences of ACEs
- Chapter 13. ACE and its implication over the lifespan
- Global life course health consequences of ACE
- A review of ACE over the last 100 years
- Quality of life of maltreated children
- ACE and emotional inhibition
- Consequences of emotional abuse
- Emotional abuse and depression in adulthood
- Causes and consequences of child neglect
- ACE and health consequences
- Clinical consequences of child abuse
- Childhood maltreatment and adult mental disorders
- Psychosocial consequences of ACE
- Psychological, economic, and physical health consequences of specific child abuse
- ACE and personality development
- How does childhood maltreatment contribute to mood disorders?
- Psychiatric consequences of child maltreatment
- ACE and dissociation
- ACE and depression in later life
- Multiple ACEs and the effects on health
- Mother's ACE and its effects
- ACE and maternal anxiety
- Mothers' ACE and helplessness toward their children
- Mother's ACE and children's behavior
- ACE, attachment anxiety, and somatic symptoms
- ACE and aggression in young adulthood
- ACE and sexual offending in adulthood
- Childhood maltreatment and intimate partner violence
- Effects of child sexual abuse
- Chapter 14. The effects of ACE on intimate relationships
- Disorganized attachment, ACE and its effect on adult relationships
- ACE & romantic relations
- ACE & adult intimate relations
- ACE & adult love relationships
- Long term effects of abuse on relationships
- The effect of neglect on romantic relationships
- ACE & interpersonal relations in adulthood
- ACE & adult intimate relationships of women
- ACE & relating to family in adulthood
- ACE and sexual victimization in adulthood
- Parenting after ACE
- Navigating parenthood following CSA
- Chapter 15. How did the pandemic affect child maltreatment
- Media reports about the effects of COVID-19
- COVID & family violence
- Economic downturn & child abuse
- Risks to children during Covid-19 pandemic
- How COVID affects children and their families
- COVID & the traumatized
- COVID & loneliness
- Social isolation
- About COVID-19, isolation, and family violence
- COVID and its emotional ramifications
- COVID & accumulated child abuse
- COVID & physical child abuse (PCA)
- Healthcare providers' stress during COVID
- What can schools do to minimize child abuse?
- Chapter 16. Resilience: what it is, and how to develop it
- Intro to resilience and definition
- Resilience
- Resilience of those who underwent CSA
- Research on resilience
- Factors influencing resilience
- Differential prediction of resilience
- Genetics and neuroimaging of maltreated children
- CSA and resilience in male victims
- Enhancing resilience in adult women
- Resilience of African sexually abused women
- Resilience in physically abused children
- Influence of parenting on psychiatric resilience of CSA victims
- CSA and resilience in women
- Caregivers' effect on children's resilience
- Posttraumatic growth of survivors of CSA
- Developing resilience
- Resilience of CSA victims
- Chapter 17. Treating physical abuse and neglect
- Case study
- Intervention
- Pharmacological intervention
- Culturally sensitive intervention
- Epilogue, or what now?
- Index
- No. of pages: 456
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 8, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323858533
- eBook ISBN: 9780323900676
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Ami Rokach
Ami Rokach, Ph.D. A clinical psychologist, a member of the psychology dept. at York university in Toronto, and a researcher who has researched and published extensively on loneliness, intimate partner violence, sexuality and sexual abuse, bullying and victimization, the homeless, drug abuse, and criminality. Ami worked at the Ontario Correctional Inst. for 28 years with ‘garden variety’ criminals, sex offenders, and violent, abusive and dangerous criminals, all – or most – of whom experienced ACEs, and continue to inflict it on their children. Additionally, in his private practice, Ami treats people who have undergone ACE and traumatic upheavals in their childhood.
Affiliations and expertise
Psychology Department, York University, Toronto, CanadaSC
Shauna Clayton
Shauna Spirling, M.A.—A Master of Arts graduate from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada where she specialized in developmental psychology. Shauna has researched a variety of topics including psychosocial development, regret, older adult development, loneliness, drug and alcohol abuse, and childhood trauma including the effects on experiences in school and adulthood.
Affiliations and expertise
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Kinesiology, York University, Toronto, CanadaRead Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Life-Long Impact on ScienceDirect