Adverse Childhood Experience of Bullying

 Adverse Childhood Experience of Bullying

ACE can have a huge impact on a child impacting there emotional and physical health lasting into adulthood. This is for children of repeated behavior of bullying and even cyberbullying that continues on happening that impacts there development of life.

Adverse Childhood Experience and Health

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/

The study is a confidential study that kids complete during there exam. It asks kids about there health and there experiences within school. It looks at the effects a child might be going or will go through. Showing that people who go through ACE multiple times through there lifetime will be at a higher risk for serious health issues and a sorter life. This can be due to the way someone cops. We know bullying can cause mental illness but treated with medications but there are always side effects. 

During there childhood a child goes through many negative and positive experiences that can have a huge impact on there life. Having early experiences are a safety issues for the public. ACE can be prevented. 

Adverse Childhood Experiences can go through:

• Early Death 
• Risky behaviors.                                     As a child continues going through ACE they are at a
• Chronic Conditions.                  higher risk of going through these consequences. 
• Low Potential                     . 

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ACE

Addressing ACE 

The effects can effect health over a life span. Strategies addressing ACE and to prevent bullying can be applied to the public health:

Sensitive Schools: Faculty members should understand the impact of the trauma. Pay attention to the signs and changes of a student that trauma might be the cause. Taking this approach makes sure that they recognizes that there is trauma and takes action but avoiding certain responses.

Social Emotional Learning: This teaches children to recognize there feelings to build skills to manage there feelings. This is the opportunity for children to work together, understand one another, take responsibility, and to resolve the problem. When children work together they are less likely to bully. If bullying does seem to happen this approach can be used to help identify the problem and a way to resolve it.

Mindfulness: This is a way to teach kids to become aware of there thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This is guided by teachers to be goal oriented. This can be used for children who act out or who have even bullied in the past identifying there feelings.

Circle Discussions: This approach leads children to open discussions, build understanding, and even bring open justice. A questions to be brought up is " What can we do to make things right?" This is guided then by community open questions. Everyone in the classroom is asked to participate. If the bullying does occur it can bring groups together focusing on support, guidance, and actions to take.

Justice: This is a way to fix relationships by repairing harm that has been done. Schools use justice to to bring people together to store the harm that might have been done. Within this circling learning is being used. This can be used for children to understand one another from someone else's point of view. These are led by adults who are professionally trained and this isn't a form of peer meditation. Conflict resolutions are not usually recommend to fix bullying.

These efforts can also work where children and adults come together. There are many ways to help one another. Efforts to help heal and understand what one is going through within the community and with the communities help looking beyond the educational system like after school activities.

Sources:

“Bullying as an ACE.” StopBullying.gov, Department of Health and Human Services, www.stopbullying.gov/research-resources/bullying-as-an-ace/index.html.

Henderson, Scott. “The Adverse Childhood Experience Study.” YouTube, YouTube, 8 Nov. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M7zCHSytLc.

“Violence Prevention.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 Apr. 2016, www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/.
TED. “How Childhood Trauma Affects Health across a Lifetime | Nadine Burke Harris.” YouTube, YouTube, 17 Feb. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ovIJ3dsNk.