Main description:

The entire world is in crisis with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and other lifetime trauma at an all-time high. This book is a valuable resource to promote optimal brain function for everyone, but especially for survivors of trauma who are particularly at risk throughout the life course. It is critical for healthcare providers, schoolteachers and administration, public safety professionals, foster and adoptive parents, employers and loved ones to understand the potential life-long consequences that ACEs can have in the lives of survivors. This book describes the complexities behind why behaviors occur if hurt people hurt themselves and others.

The first half of this book addresses what can go wrong in the brain and body after trauma that potentially leads to life-long poor bio-behavioral health outcomes. The second half of this book addresses how the life-long poor bio-behavioral health outcomes can be prevented, mitigated or potentially reversed. This book is necessary for everyone who is interested in optimizing brain function, especially survivors of ACEs and other trauma throughout the life course who are at greater risk. The major focus of the book is on how to prevent long-term negative consequences of trauma and how to restore the brain, body, behavior and emotions.

Contents:

Part I. Overview of Adverse Childhood Experiences1. Introduction, Epidemiology, Measurement and the Cycle of Trauma
Part II. The Potential Serious Nature of Adverse Childhood Experiences2. Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Neurodevelopment3. Potential Life-long Neurobiological, Bio-Behavioral and other Outcomes of Trauma
Part III. The Potential Impact of Trauma on the Brain, Body, Behavior and Society
4. Childhood Physical Abuse (CPA), Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA), Abusive Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Childhood Emotional Abuse (CEA), Neglect and Other Trauma5. Absence of a Healthy Parent: Mental and Physical Illness, Substance Misuse and Trauma in the life of Parents, Caregivers, and Significant Others6. Racial, Ethnic, Gender and Economic Disparities and Trauma7. COVID-19 Trauma: The New Complex Adverse Childhood ExperiencePart IV. Physiological and Psychological Healing, Trauma-Informed Rehabilitation, Breaking the Cycle of Trauma, and Resilience throughout the Life Course
8. Protective, Compensatory and Benevolent Experiences for Building Resilience
9. Understanding and Responding to Survivors of Trauma: Emotional Intelligence to Build Healthy Relationships10. Trauma Informed Self-Care: Emotional & Spiritual Resilience and Healing11. Overview of Psychological and Psychiatric Interventions after Trauma: Counseling, Psychotherapy and Medications12. Brain Food: The Impact of Diet, Nutrition and Nutraceuticals on the Brain and the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis13. Physical Exercise, Sleep and the Brain14. Self-Help for Life-Long Resilience: Cognitive Engagement, Education, Creativity, Sense of Purpose in Life and Humor15. The Healing Power of Nature on the Brain: Healing in Green Spaces and Blue Spaces16. Primary and Secondary Prevention, Health Equity and Trauma-Informed Institutional and Public Policies to Promote Healing and Resilience