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Term | Definition |
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Adverse childhood experiences | traumatic experiences in a person's life occurring before the age of 18 that the person remembers as an adult |
Cortisol | a steroid hormone that your adrenal glands, produce and release; affects several aspects of your body and mainly helps regulate your body’s response to stress |
Emotional abuse | any type of abuse that involves the continual emotional mistreatment of a child that can involve deliberately trying to scare, humiliate, isolate, or ignore a child |
Household dysfunction | any household that includes parental separation or divorce, substance abuse and criminality in the home, childhood poverty, residential instability, and growing up with a mentally or physically ill parent |
Neglect | the ongoing failure to meet a child's basic needs (e.g., leaving the child hungry or dirty, or not providing the child with proper clothing, shelter, supervision, or healthcare) |
Physical abuse | any intentional act causing injury or trauma to another person or animal by way of bodily contact |
Resiliency | the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness |
Toxic stress | the prolonged activation of the body’s stress response that can lead to long-term behavior issues, health complications, and diseases |
Trauma | the response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms an individual’s ability to cope, causes feelings of helplessness, and diminishes their sense of self and their ability to feel a full range of emotions and experiences |
Trauma-informed care | care or services characterized by an understanding that problematic behavior may need to be treated as a result of the ACEs or other traumatic experiences someone has had, as opposed to addressing them as simply willful and/or punishable actions |