Growing up in a home with physical abuse, emotional neglect, mental illness and substance misuse are some examples of Adverse Childhood Experiences, and are among those considered in the original Aces study by Felitti et al (1998).
However, it is important to consider Aces that were not reported in that study, such as bullying, discrimination, racial trauma, losing a parent, poverty, unstable housing, family separation — and the list goes on. We can now add the Covid-19 pandemic as another of the identified Aces.
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