Patrick Neustatter: We need to become more 'trauma aware' [fredericksburg.com]

Alicia Doktor 11/29/1712:00 PM

I was not giving much thought to the childhood experiences of the disheveled old guy I was treating for emphysema and excess alcohol consumption at the clinic the other day—but I should have been.

This realization was brought home to me by a presentation at the annual conference of the Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics I just attended in Virginia Beach.

Usually the agenda is a lot of organizational and logistical stuff. But, this time, social worker John Richardson–Lauve, LCSW, from the organization ChildSavers, gave a clinically orientated presentation about the effects of adverse childhood events, or ACEs. It was an interesting deviation.

[For more on this story by PATRICK NEUSTATTER, go to http://www.fredericksburg.com/...d6-c97dd3de6d28.html]

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