Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Life-Long Impact

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Child Maltreatment Cross Culturally
3. What Causes Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
4. Physical Child Abuse
5. Child sexual abuse
6. Medical child abuse
7. Emotional Maltreatment: Abuse is not just physical
8. Bullying
9. The Various Ways of Child Neglect
10. Children exposed to ACE: The trauma and its aftermath
11. Implications and Outcomes of ACEs
12. ACEs Throughout the Lifespan
13. ACE and its implication over the lifespan
14. The effects of ACE on intimate relationships
15. How did the pandemic affect child maltreatment
16. Resilience: What it is, and how to develop it
17. Treating Physical Abuse and Neglect

Authors

Ami Rokach Psychology Department, York University, Toronto, Canada. 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. Shauna Clayton Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Kinesiology, York University, Toronto, Canada. 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.