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The steps that can help adults heal from childhood trauma [TheConversation.com]

Prevention is the mantra of modern medicine and public health. Benjamin Franklin said it himself: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

Unfortunately, childhood adversities such as abuse and neglect cannot be prevented by vaccinations. As we now know, a large proportion of adults go through adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and can exhibit symptoms such as substance abuse. The symptoms seen in adults can in turn expose the next generation to adverse outcomes – creating a cycle that’s hard to break.



[For more of this story, written by Shanta R. Dube, go to https://theconversation.com/th...ildhood-trauma-77152]

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"Unfortunately, childhood adversities such as abuse and neglect cannot be prevented by vaccinations."  

But parenting education can improve the quality of parenting and thereby reduce adverse childhood experiences.

Visit advancingparenting.org.

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