Dr. Jameca CooperForensic Psychology Consultant, Emergence Psychological Services · Board Certified Counseling Psychologist and Forensic Psychology Consultant

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that occur during childhood.

18 Oct 2022 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, Dr. Jameca Cooper explains that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are significant, traumatic events that occur from birth through roughly age 17‑18. Unlike merely uncomfortable or unpleasant situations, ACEs are profoundly distressing experiences that can markedly affect an individual's development and have lasting consequences for mental health, as well as overall lifelong health and wellness.

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ACEs are extremely important in our understanding of mental health conditions and lifelong health and wellness, really. So what they are are Adverse Childhood Experiences that occur to someone in the course of their lifetime from birth to the age of 17 or 18. So these are different than just situations or experiences that may be uncomfortable or unpleasant, but these are situations that are really significant, traumatic for an individual, and that really impacts their development.