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How to Keep Children's Stress From Turning Into Trauma [nytimes.com]

By Stacy Steinberg, The New York Times, May 7, 2020 Children may be processing the disruptions in their lives right now in ways the adults around them do not expect: acting out, regressing, retreating or even seeming surprisingly content. Parents need to know that all of this is normal, experts say, and there are some things we can do to help. “Our natural response to scary things is biologically to release stress hormones,” said Dr. Nadine Burke Harris , a pediatrician and surgeon general...
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Re: How to Keep Children's Stress From Turning Into Trauma [nytimes.com]

Christina Cunningham ·
I love that this issue is getting attention from the NYT, but I am disturbed that we are promoting this idea that an ACE score can be used as an indicator of a PERSONS risk for later health problems. ACEs are about POPULATION level risk, not personal risk. Rob Anda_ACE Score Strengths, Limitations, Misuse Also, not loving the thermometer comparison. "An ACE score is not the be-all and end-all,” Dr. Burke Harris said. Instead, she compares it to a thermometer. You can be sick and not have a...
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