This fascinating piece of research, called the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE) though not new, was put together to explore associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life health and well-being.
It is one of the largest studies of its kind and is a collaboration between the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente’s Health Appraisal Clinic in San Diego.
According to the research, certain experiences are major risk factors for leading causes of illness and death as well as poor quality of life in the United States.
Major findings of the study can be viewed here.
The very thorough stats can be accessed here and they are divided and subdivided for various categories and demographics.
Particularly helpful is the Related Links page which holds a great deal of information on child welfare and family related research and support information.
The CDC website itself is a huge resource and well worth exploring if you have time to do so.
A very big thank you to Quenby Wilcox for sharing this item.
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An interesting research which I will forward onto my consultant.
My life does fit that model all the way through, early trauma’s, a year spent in hospital in a coma due to Meningitis when I was 7-8, becoming socially isolated, then socially rebellious, drifting into London’s underworld until was given some salvation by a special school.
And now my mind is breaking down and now in a major depressive episode which is the equivalent of depression as a psychosis, I have the mien of an old man, broken before my time, I feel incredibly old and I don’t know when I last ever laughed or felt happy, now have both feet slowly rotting due to Peripheral Vascular Disease, in constant pain due to a mix of fibriomyalgia and compounded by a severe and a less severe frozen shoulder on each side.
On Youtube is a video called Made In Britain, that BBC drama was actually based on my ahem exploits derived from a channel 4 documentary that was held back by social workers for nearly two years, I was highly self destructive and whilst not violent to normal people, I did have a thing for fighting with the police and rebelling against authority and I never knew why I did it.
And it seems my past life is overtaking me, I have little to show for my time other than my children as every opportunity I had I threw away and my CV is littered with some very impressive jobs and yet I am sitting here rotting away like a vegetable in a tiny council flat counting down the days til I die.
But I have adopted one philosophy, that of the humanists, to do no bad, to do good for the sake of helping others seeking no reward, to shrug off the lusts of money or property and to try and live my remaining years doing no harm to others and support my children best I can and I got me six cats which have become my little tribe of “children”.
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Does maltreatment extend to when social workers remove children from their parents because I can think of nothing more traumatic! Social workers should work with and support families so children can stay in their own homes. A more holistic process need to be implemented rather than the sledgehammer approach currently used!
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