What Are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)? Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can potentially cause trauma. ACEs aren’t specific. They can include any distressful event between birth and age 17.

Experiencing childhood trauma may lead an individual to volunteer, donate money or contact their elected officials about environmental issues later in life, according to recent research published in ...

These days, it seems like more and more people are talking about "unresolved childhood trauma," and what that can look like in adulthood. For Dr. Robyn Koslowitz, licensed school psychologist, ...

Adverse childhood experiences have impacts deep into old age, especially for those who experienced violence, and include both physical and cognitive impairments. It's known that a difficult childhood ...

Schools should be ideal places for children who have faced trauma to process their experiences. Yet too often, school systems ...

Navigating relationships with parents can be incredibly tricky, especially for adult children who had challenging childhoods. Many grew up envying their friends with more picture-perfect upbringings.

A new developmental theory from an Iowa State researcher describes how our memory and perception of trauma can evolve over time, shifting with new experiences and as cognitive and emotional ...

Survivors of childhood trauma have legitimate needs for emotional closeness. Emotionally focused therapy can help couples ...

It's yet more evidence that working on your mental health can impact future generations, too. "Generational trauma" has been a buzz phrase for a few years now, as more and more adults learn that the ...

Generational trauma occurs when parents unintentionally pass their trauma down to their kids. Generational trauma can affect multiple generations over the course of hundreds of years. Learning to ...