Adverse Childhood Experience Study

Suppose you’re a teacher in a classroom and you have that one “deviant” student. That student doesn’t perform at the academic levels of the others, he doesn’t engage in activities, makes other students cry and all around is the problem-child. Students go home and tell their families about the student and perhaps you do as well. This “deviant” student is the most frequent talked about topic at the dinner table. From an outside or above the surface view this child is the annoying, distracting bully, but from a realistic view this abnormal student, after all has many underlying problems that result in these negative behaviors, starting with childhood experiences. After scratching the surface, this deviant child is experiencing physical abuse from …show more content…
And Bennet reveals that hitting is a vast neurobiological stressor that results in long term negative consequences (Video, November 23, 2013). Bennet voices that the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) study looks at the relationship between early stress or family dysfunction correlates with high risks of health problems (Video, November 23, 2013). If an individual’s ACE score is above four, they are twice and half times as likely to experience cardiac disease, four and a half times as likely to be chronically depressed, five times more likely to struggle with alcoholism, twelve ties more likely to attempt suicide as a teenager fourteen times as likely to be a drug user. If their ACE score is above 6 their life expectancy is cut off by twenty years (R. Bennett, Video, November 23, 2013). As a result, the leading cause for poor quality of life, illness and death is adverse childhood …show more content…
Robert K. Ross reveals in his TED video that early childhood violence consequents to long term health conditions because the impact of early adversity is more comparable to a brain injury than a psychological injury (Video, June 1, 2014). The impact of early stress isn’t shown right away, as it takes a time which may be the reason child hood violence is so high (R. Ross, Video, June 1, 2014). There is a positive correlation between the frequency in which an individual drinks and the number of times that individual has been abused. Ross utters, that the natural human response to threat is the fight or flight response which results in a rush of hormones such as cortisol and epinephrine which then blood rushes through out the body (Damage occurs when repetitive responses occur such as those of child hood trauma because exposure results in poor health (R. Ross, Video, June 1,