BookKathleen 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