;)
ACEs and why they matter
Posted by Breggie Hoffman on 30 May 2022, 12:25 SAST
Authored by Joanna Jones, the Child and Youth Care Centre Manager at TLC Village.
The relatively modern scientific studies of neurodevelopment only began taking shape in the 1950’s when in 1951, John Bowlby (a British psychoanalyst) published his Maternal Deprivation Hypothesis.1
In recent years the field of neurodevelopment and the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on the developing brain has exploded. It is critical that those caring for (and responsible for) “children from hard places”, in any capacity, are educated in the implications of this research in order to attempt to mitigate the effect of these experiences on the development and future outcomes for our children.
