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    Kathleen Brewer-Smyth.
    Summary: The entire world is in crisis with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and other lifetime trauma at an all-time high. This book is a valuable resource to promote optimal brain function for everyone, but especially for survivors of trauma who are particularly at risk throughout the life course. It is critical for healthcare providers, schoolteachers and administration, public safety professionals, foster and adoptive parents, employers and loved ones to understand the potential life-long consequences that ACEs can have in the lives of survivors. This book describes the complexities behind why behaviors occur if hurt people hurt themselves and others. The first half of this book addresses what can go wrong in the brain and body after trauma that potentially leads to life-long poor bio-behavioral health outcomes. The second half of this book addresses how the life-long poor bio-behavioral health outcomes can be prevented, mitigated or potentially reversed. This book is necessary for everyone who is interested in optimizing brain function, especially survivors of ACEs and other trauma throughout the life course who are at greater risk. The major focus of the book is on how to prevent long-term negative consequences of trauma and how to restore the brain, body, behavior and emotions.

    Contents:
    Intro
    Foreword by Ann Wolbert Burgess
    Foreword by Christina D. Spink
    Foreword by Harold G. Koenig
    Preface
    Contents
    About the Book
    About the Author
    Part I: Overview of Adverse Traumatic Experiences
    1: Introduction, Epidemiology, Measurement, and the Cycle of Trauma
    Epidemiology of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
    The Cost of ACEs
    Measurement of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
    Healthy Stress Versus Toxic Stress
    Intergenerational and Other Cycles of Trauma: Hurt People May Hurt Themselves and Others
    Epigenetics
    Conclusion
    Resources Suicide Resources
    References
    Part II: The Potential Serious Nature of Adverse Childhood Experiences
    2: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Neurodevelopment
    Mental Health Conditions
    Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
    Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
    Bipolar Affective Disorder (BP) and Schizophrenia (SZ)
    Intrauterine Environment
    Exposure to Alcohol and Other Substances
    Maternal Health and the Developing Child
    Summary and Conclusion
    Resources
    References 3: Potential Lifelong Neurobiological, Bio-behavioral, and Other Outcomes of Trauma
    Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
    Complex Trauma
    High-Risk Behaviors: Lack of Regard for Self and Others
    Lifestyle, Mental and Physical Outcomes
    Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, and Related Health Conditions
    Risky Sexual Behavior and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
    Substance Use
    Other Eating Disorders
    The Impact of COVID-19 Trauma on Diet and Weight
    Relationships
    Criminal Behavior
    Antisocial Personality Disorder
    Homelessness
    Summary and Conclusion
    Resources Suicide Resources
    Eating Disorder Resources
    References
    Part III: The Potential Impact of Trauma on the Brain, Body, Behavior and Society
    4: Childhood Physical Abuse (CPA), Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA), Abusive Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Childhood Emotional Abuse (CEA), Neglect, and Other Trauma
    Individual Risk Factors
    Family Risk Factors
    Community Risk Factors
    Childhood Physical Abuse
    Abusive Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI)
    Long-Term Outcomes
    Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) and Other Sexual Trauma
    Neurobiology of the Normal Stress Response Potential Lifelong Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis and Stress System Changes After ACEs
    Implications of Stress Systems Changes on Bio-behavioral Health Outcomes
    Childhood Emotional Abuse (CEA), Neglect, and Poverty
    Human Trafficking
    Secondary Vicarious Trauma
    Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations
    Resources
    Suicide Resources
    Vicarious Trauma Resources
    References
    5: Absence of a Healthy Parent: Mental and Physical Illness, Substance Misuse, and Trauma in the Life of Parents, Caregivers, and Significant Others
    Mental Health Conditions
    Digital Access Springer 2022