ACE
- noun
- /eɪs/
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- Things start getting serious around an ACE score of 4.
- ACEs score
- ACEs in early childhood
- four or more ACEs
Do you know that ACE test, adverse childhood experiences?
- Do you know that ACE test, adverse childhood experiences?
- Do you know about the ACE quiz stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences?
- However, far more people who grew up with narcissistic parents do not have high Aces scores.
- So I think an ACE score, knowing your ACE score starting as a teenager, like knowing it and knowing how to work with that is really essential.
- As far as like ACE, you you didn't know what that meant?
Examples
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Many studies show that experiencing multiple ACEs can lead to serious health issues later in life.
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Experiencing multiple ACEs can cause toxic stress and trauma, which can lead to a range of physical, mental, and behavioral problems.
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If a person had none of the events in her or his background, the ACE score was zero.
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Do you know that ACE test, adverse childhood experiences?
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Since then, 17 states have done their own ACE surveys, with results similar to the CDC study.
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Fortunately, children with multiple ACEs are not destined to experience negative outcomes.
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More than half of the children in the child welfare system have had four or more ACEs (Stambaugh et al., 2013).
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Children who experience four or more ACEs are twelve times more likely to have negative health outcomes than the general child population (Stambaugh et al., 2013).
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Understanding your ACE score can help you address childhood trauma effectively.
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The workshop focused on how to mitigate the effects of ACEs in children's lives.
Idioms
Compounds
A playing card with a single black spade and the letter A that people often think is unlucky
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A medicine that lowers blood pressure by blocking a body chemical that narrows blood vessels
How Traumatic
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Surface Forms
Etymology
ACE stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences, a short name for harmful or very stressful events in childhood. So an 'ACE' score adds up how many of these events someone had, which helps explain why more ACEs are linked to higher health risks later.