Overview
- Won four American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards (three 1st places, one 3rd place)!
- Written from the perspective of an experienced neuro-rehabilitation nurse specialist
- Offers a stronger focus on adult victims of adverse childhood experiences
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overview of Adverse Traumatic Experiences
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The Potential Serious Nature of Adverse Childhood Experiences
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The Potential Impact of Trauma on the Brain, Body, Behavior and Society
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Physiological and Psychological Healing, Trauma-Informed Rehabilitation, Breaking the Cycle of Trauma, and Resilience Throughout the Life Course
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Keywords
- Violence
- Health outcomes
- Toxic stress
- Chronic stress
- ACE
- Abuse
- Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis
- Cortisol
- Forgiveness
- Neuro-biology
- Bio-behaviour
- Resilience
- Post-traumatic rehabilitation
- De-escalation
- Trauma informed
- Health behaviours: diet, exercise, sleep, environment
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Brain health
- Neuroscience
About this book
The entire world is in crisis with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and other lifetime trauma at an all-time high. This book is a valuable resource to promote optimal brain function for everyone, but especially for survivors of trauma who are particularly at risk throughout the life course. It is critical for healthcare providers, schoolteachers and administration, public safety professionals, foster and adoptive parents, employers and loved ones to understand the potential life-long consequences that ACEs can have in the lives of survivors. This book describes the complexities behind why behaviors occur if hurt people hurt themselves and others.
The first half of this book addresses what can go wrong in the brain and body after trauma that potentially leads to life-long poor bio-behavioral health outcomes. The second half of this book addresses how the life-long poor bio-behavioral health outcomes can be prevented, mitigated or potentially reversed. This book is necessaryfor everyone who is interested in optimizing brain function, especially survivors of ACEs and other trauma throughout the life course who are at greater risk. The major focus of the book is on how to prevent long-term negative consequences of trauma and how to restore the brain, body, behavior and emotions.This book won four American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards. It was awarded 1st place in 3 categories (Community/ Home Health, Creative Works, and Psychiatric/ Mental Health) and 3rd place in the Consumer Health category.
No book has ever won this many AJN awards since AJN first began acknowledging high-quality publications on nursing and healthcare topics in 1969.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kathleen Brewer-Smyth, PhD, RN, MSN, CRRN, FAAN is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA. She completed a master’s degree, PhD, and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, where she studied primarily neuroscience nursing, victimology, and forensic neuroscience. Dr. Brewer-Smyth is a neuroscience nurse specialist and board certified rehabilitation registered nurse (CRRN). She teaches advanced neuroscience and conducts neuroscience research on the life-long bio-behavioral health outcomes of the cycle of trauma, abuse and violence that often begin in childhood. She has published and presented extensively on these topics. She was awarded the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses Doctorate-Prepared Researcher Award for her work that has been referenced by scholars and policy-makers worldwide. She was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) because of the global impactof her work.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adverse Childhood Experiences
Book Subtitle: The Neuroscience of Trauma, Resilience and Healing throughout the Life Course
Authors: Kathleen Brewer-Smyth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08801-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08800-1Published: 09 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08801-8Published: 07 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 454
Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nursing, Clinical Psychology, Social Work, Public Health, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry