Adverse Childhood Experience

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After watching the ted talk done by a pediatrician, Nadine Burke Harris and reading the three readings (Childhood Disrupted, Pipeline to Prison, Childhood Anxiety and Killers), I realized that society can learn allot about Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE). Through longitudinal studies, before watching and reading about ACEs I would never have thought there would have such a solid correlation between ACE and health outcomes in people’s lives, especially were not talking about five or six months but more like ten, twenty and even thirty years down the road.
The link between ACE and related to health development is crazy, how a traumatic event in one’s childhood could affect an individual health in the future is insane. Before watching this

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