How Your Early Childhood Affects Your Path Forward [FastCoexist.com]

Samantha Sangenito 3/18/164:00 AM

Clinicians use a common tool to assess the extent of toxic stress a child has experienced during his or her childhood. It’s called the Adverse Childhood Experience test, or ACE for short. It's a simple tool made up of just 10 yes or no questions. The lower the score, the better. In a meta study conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente, researchers tracked the health outcomes of adults based on the extent of the adverse experiences they dealt with as children. The results were alarming.

[For more of this story, written by Bob McKinnon, go to http://www.fastcoexist.com/305...ts-your-path-forward]

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