Trauma and Development

Question 1

What is ACE

Answer 1

Adverse Childhood Experiences; physical, sexual abuse along with domestic violence, substance-abusing parents all effect children
- depends on the age/gender of child along with the duration of exposure

Question 2

What are the two effects that result of deprivation trauma

Answer 2

1. physiological/neurodevelopmental effects
2. psychosocial development effects

Question 3

What is ‘hospitalism’

Answer 3

• Rene Spitz
• children in institutions were showing delayed development
• smaller in size and not able to carry out the physiological markers like rolling over

Question 4

What are the effects of institutionalization on development

Answer 4

• hospitalism
• lower level of cognitive performance (because neglected)