Posts Tagged ‘Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)’
Recovering from Childhood Trauma – “Cracked Up” Documentary Tells the Story
Recovering from childhood trauma, now commonly known as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), can begin at any age. And it can begin when we understand that treating childhood trauma requires identifying the root causes that underly the symptoms of childhood trauma. In other words, it requires helping children and adults understand there’s a reason they engage…
Read MoreAlcohol Use Disorders | Secondhand Drinking | ACEs – Trace Your Family ACEs Tree
Alcohol use disorders | Secondhand Drinking | ACEs — often, it’s a cycle. The behaviors of a person with an alcohol use disorder (AUD) cause secondhand drinking (SHD), and both AUD and SHD can change an entire family system. A changed family system can cause adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) for the current generation of children.…
Read MoreUnderage Drinking Prevention | Intervention Tools for Parents and Caregivers
Underage drinking prevention | intervention efforts run a gamut from just say “no,” to teaching young children to drink by allowing them to drink at home, to a resigned “I drank as a teen and I’m fine; it’s just a phase all kids go through” to “the Europeans don’t have a problem because they teach…
Read MoreSecondhand Drinking IS Childhood Trauma
There’s been a great deal of new research about the role childhood trauma plays in changing the neural network wiring of a child’s developing brain. I think Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris does one of the best jobs explaining (in 15 minutes!), “Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up … the repeated stress…
Read MoreGrandparents Raising Grandchildren of Addicted Parents
There are many reasons grandparents find themselves raising their grandchildren. This article is specifically for grandparents raising grandchildren of addicted parents. In other words, they’ve stepped up because their own adult child is incapable of raising their own child as a result of their addiction. I’m writing this because the ramifications for all concerned – grandparents,…
Read MoreDisruptive Child – Could be Sign of Untreated Alcoholism at Home
Disruptive child? It may be their disruptive behaviors are the result of what’s happened to them, not “them.” And the “what’s happened to ‘them’” may be secondhand drinking. Secondhand drinking is the impacts of a person’s drinking behaviors on others, such as the drinking behaviors associated with alcoholism and alcohol abuse. Children who grow up…
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