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Nov 22, 2023 · Teaching and support staff play a pivotal role in shaping the educational experience for children with Adverse Childhood Experiences. By creating a safe, understanding, and individualised learning environment, educators contribute significantly to the resilience and well-being of these students.
- Introduction
- About The Evidence Presented Below
- Accessing Resources
- Background
- Scottish Context
- The Origin of Aces
- Defining Aces and Trauma
- Evidence
- Studies Measuring The Effectiveness of Interventions to Mitigate Against Aces
- Examples and Recommended Practice
This evidence summary seeks to address the following questions relating to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and interventions within the education system: 1. How may ACEs impact young people’s educational experiences? 2. How can schools best support young people with ACEs? 3. What kinds of approaches have been effective in creating the conditio...
We drew on a wide range of evidence, including academic research in the fields of social work, healthcare, psychology, early years and education in relevant databases (e.g. ASSIA, ProQuest Public Health, SCIE Social Care Online, Social Services Abstracts) and recommendations from specialist organisations (e.g. CELCIS, Scottish Adverse Childhood Exp...
We have provided links to the materials referenced in the summary. Some of these materials are published in academic journals and are only available with a subscription through the The Knowledge Network with a NHSScotland OpenAthens username. The Knowledge Network offers accounts to everyone who helps provide health and social care in Scotland in c...
There has been a recent interest in approaches to education that support young people with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), including trauma informed and attachment approaches. For example, the Welsh Government has recently announced that training to help children who face early childhood trauma is to be offered to all schools in Wales. Teache...
Concerns around ACEs have been picked up by policymakers across education and social care in Scotland. The University of Glasgow Adverse Childhood Experiences Research Centre suggests that children who suffer difficult early experiences, such as illness, neurodevelopmental problems, neglect or abuse can develop mental health problems that can burde...
The original ACE Study was conducted at Kaiser Permanente from 1995 to 1997. Around 17,000 mostly white, middle class college-educated people in Southern California completed surveys about their childhood experiences and current health status and behaviours, and received physical exams (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2016). The fi...
According to Corcoran and McNulty (2018), adverse childhood experiences are “traumatic events (e.g., sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse) or chronic stressors (e.g., neglect, parental separation) that are uncontrollable to the child”. The original ACE questionnaire used the following categories and refer to the respondent’s first 18 years...
A significant body of research exists causally connecting adverse childhood experiences to poor educational outcomes. For example, Cook et al (2005)suggest: Recent doctoral research by McDowell (2017)identified that young people who had multiple ACEs were less likely to care about doing well in school and less likely to do all required homework tha...
The interventions summarised below include trauma-informed, attachment aware and ACE approaches to interventions to support young people in the school environment and with educational attainment.
This section focuses on examples of trauma, attachment and ACEs informed approaches to education and documents that make good practice recommendations. The quality of school attended is important for young people’s health and wellbeing, and schools play a critical role in the development of children and young people’s social networks and their expe...
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) are stressful events occuring in childhood that have the potential to result in chronic or overwhelming stress while growing up. This is particularly the case where a child or young person does not have the support of a commited and caring adult.
Jan 29, 2019 · The Adverse Childhood Experiences study, or ACE Study, was conducted by researchers at Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the late 1990s. They sought to examine the impact of specific negative childhood experiences and conditions on long-term health.
Nov 3, 2017 · ACEs, or adverse childhood experiences, are traumatic experiences that occur during childhood and may affect a person’s health and wellbeing as a child and later in life. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) defines two types of trauma.
Dec 22, 2021 · In this article, we’ll define adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), detail the impact ACEs have on child development, explain why it’s so crucial that schools understand the impact of ACEs, and provide guidance on how schools can support children who have experienced ACEs.
The acronym ACEs stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences. ACEs are specific traumatic events which occur before the age of 18 and can be grouped into three types: abuse, neglect and household adversity.
