Adverse Childhood Experiences

The ACE Study compares adverse childhood experiences against adult health status, on average a half-century later. eight categories of adverse childhood experience: 3 categories of abuse physical abuseemotional abusecontact sexual abusegrowing up in a household with: an alcoholic or drug-usera member being imprisoneda mentally ill, chronically depressed, or institutionalized memberthe mother being treated violentlyloss of a biological parent2 categories of neglect em...