Early life stress and development: potential mechanisms for adverse outcomes

KE Smith, SD Pollak - Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders, 2020 - Springer
Background Chronic and/or extreme stress in early life, often referred to as early adversity,
childhood trauma, or early life stress, has been associated with a wide range of adverse …

The association between five forms of child maltreatment and depressive and anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis

MJ Gardner, HJ Thomas, HE Erskine - Child abuse & neglect, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Child maltreatment is a global public health issue that encompasses physical
abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, and exposure to intimate partner violence …

Rethinking concepts and categories for understanding the neurodevelopmental effects of childhood adversity

KE Smith, SD Pollak - Perspectives on psychological science, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Discovering the processes through which early adverse experiences affect children's
nervous-system development, health, and behavior is critically important for developing …

Practitioner review: twenty years of research with adverse childhood experience scores–advantages, disadvantages and applications to practice

RE Lacey, H Minnis - Journal of Child Psychology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Adverse childhood experience (ACE) scores have become a common
approach for considering childhood adversities and are highly influential in public policy and …

Investigating racial differences in clusters of adverse childhood experiences.

K Maguire-Jack, P Lanier… - American Journal of …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Many researchers have examined the cumulative effects of adverse childhood experiences
(ACEs) and found that higher levels of ACEs increase the risk for worsening health …

[HTML][HTML] Child maltreatment and alexithymia: A meta-analytic review.

J Ditzer, EY Wong, RN Modi, M Behnke… - Psychological …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Alexithymia refers to difficulties identifying and describing one's emotions. Growing evidence
suggests that alexithymia is a key transdiagnostic risk factor. Despite its clinical importance …

[HTML][HTML] Child maltreatment and the development of substance use and disorder

D Cicchetti, ED Handley - Neurobiology of stress, 2019 - Elsevier
Children who experience maltreatment are at well-documented risk for the development of
problematic substance use and disorder in adolescence and beyond. This review applies a …

The clustering of adverse childhood experiences in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: are gender and poverty important?

RE Lacey, LD Howe, M Kelly-Irving… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous research has demonstrated a graded relationship between the number of Adverse
Childhood Experiences reported (an ACE score) and child outcomes. However, ACE scores …

The prevalence and nature of multi‐type child maltreatment in Australia

DJ Higgins, B Mathews, R Pacella… - Medical journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To determine the prevalence in Australia of multi‐type child maltreatment,
defined as two or more maltreatment types (physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse …

Females have more complex patterns of childhood adversity: Implications for mental, social, and emotional outcomes in adulthood

I Haahr-Pedersen, C Perera, P Hyland… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been identified as an
important public health problem with serious implications. Less well understood is how …