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Adverse childhood experiences and behavioral problems in middle childhood.

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Evidence is provided that children as young as 9 begin to show behavioral problems after exposure to early childhood adversities, and exposure to ACEs is strongly associated with externalizing and internalizing behaviors and likelihood of ADHD diagnosis in middle childhood.
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This article is published in Child Abuse & Neglect.The article was published on 2017-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 318 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Early childhood & Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study.

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Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Nationally Representative Sample of Adolescents

TL;DR: This article examined the impact of race/ethnicity on the association between adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for racially and ethnically diverse adolescent populations.
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Cumulative adverse childhood experiences and children’s health

TL;DR: Exposure to three or more ACEs, compared to no ACE exposure, is positively associated with fair or poor overall health, activity limitations, and recurring school absence, adjusting for an array of child and parent characteristics.
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Specific adverse childhood experiences and their association with other adverse childhood experiences, asthma and emotional, developmental and behavioral problems in childhood

TL;DR: Economic hardship and caregiver separation are strongly associated with other ACEs, EDB problems and asthma, and a brief screener including these ACEs may reduce clinical barriers to broader ACEs screening.
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Infant Health and Future Childhood Adversity.

TL;DR: The finding of strong links between disabling infant health conditions and ACEs at age 5 suggests that child health andACEs play intertwining and mutually reinforcing roles during the early lifecourse and highlights the critical importance of investing in systems that simultaneously promote optimal child development and address childhood adversity.
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Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study

TL;DR: For example, this article found a strong relationship between the breadth of exposure to abuse or household dysfunction during childhood and multiple risk factors for several of the leading causes of death in adults.
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Risky Families: Family Social Environments and the Mental and Physical Health of Offspring

TL;DR: It is concluded that childhood family environments represent vital links for understanding mental and physical health across the life span.
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Reliability and validity studies of the WHO-Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI): A critical review

TL;DR: The CIDI is a comprehensive and fully standardized diagnostic interview designed for assessing mental disorders according to the definitions of the Diagnostic Criteria for Research of ICD-10 and DSM-III-R and was found to be appropriate for use in different kinds of settings and countries.
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Identification of child maltreatment with the Parent–Child Conflict Tactics Scales: Development and psychometric data for a national sample of American parents.

TL;DR: A parent-to-child version of the Conflict Tactics Scales, the CTSPC is better suited to measuring child maltreatment than the original CTS and is practical for epidemiological research on child malt treatment and for clinical screening.
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