The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Adults’ Well-being

The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Adults’ Well-being

Trauma is any occurrence, usually not any ordinary that harms the spirit, self, and body. It covers a wide range of hurtful experiences, including the traumas that have an emotional, mental, sexual, and physical realm of our being (Blackburn et al 2012p.18). Different forms of trauma regularly occur and these are called Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE). According to Felitti et al (1998p.249), the largest study of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) has ever been done to examine the economic, social, and medical effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences over the lifespan of children. The number of participants in the study was 18,000. Mendelsohn et al (2011p.77) pointed out the…