Athena Chow; Dimensions of Childhood Adversity
Duration: 28 mins
Publication Date: 10 Mar 2025
Next Review Date: 10 Mar 2028
DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13681
Description
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)? Do meaningful dimensions of childhood adversity exist? Should victimisation be considered an adverse childhood experience? All this and more answered as Professor Umar Toseeb interviews Athena Chow about her latest research into the existence of meaningful dimensions of childhood adversity.
Learning Objectives
1. Background into Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) – including the 10 original ACEs and the subsequent expanded set of ACEs following the development of the field.
2. The cumulative approach to ACEs and why it is limited.
3. Insight into an alternative approach to ACEs known as ‘dimensional models’ and the potential drawbacks of the dimensional model.
4. Sex differences and the relationship between ACEs and psychopathology.
