The State of the Art of Toxic Stress and Resilience Research: Policy and Practice Implications
Friday, March 19th 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm - LIVE!
Over the past two decades, research has documented that a broad range of negative outcomes are associated with the two ACEs: Adverse Childhood Experiences (e.g., child maltreatment) and Adverse Community Environments (e.g., discrimination, community violence). The pandemic and the deaths of George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and others has further highlighted profound racial disparities and unresolved issues of systemic racism in this country. In this lecture, the broad range of negative mental and physical health outcomes associated with the two ACEs are reviewed, and emerging data on the mechanisms by which these experiences ‘get under the skin’ to confer risk for these outcomes are discussed. Key factors for promoting resilience and recovery will then be delineated, together with specific policy and practice recommendations.
Learning Objectives:
- Delineate the broad range of negative sequelae associated with the two ACEs.
- Describe mechanisms by which the ACEs 'get under the skin' to confer risk for deleterious mental and physical health outcomes.
- List key factors associated with promoting resilience and recovery.
About #ADAA2021 Jeryln Ross Lecturer Dr. Joan Kaufman, PhD
Joan Kaufman received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Yale University where she served on faculty from 1998-2015. In 2015 she was recruited to Baltimore to serve as Director of Research at the Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She also holds an appointment as a Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and in the Division of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Kaufman’s research is in the area of child abuse and neglect, spans from neurobiology to social policy, and uses tools from psychology, genetics, and neuroscience to understand mechanisms of risk and resilience in vulnerable children. Dr. Kaufman is also first author on KSADS child psychiatric diagnostic interview which has been translated into more than 30 languages and updated to a web-based computer-administered format. As a developer of the KSADS, Dr. Kaufman has served as a consultant on numerous federally-funded and industry-sponsored child psychiatric clinical trials. Dr. Kaufman has also written a book titled Broken Three Times: A Story of Child Abuse in America.
Research Articles:
- Development of Three Web-Based Computerized Versions of the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia Child Psychiatric Diagnostic Q1Q2 Interview: Preliminary Validity Data
- Adverse Childhood Experiences, Epigenetic Measures, and Obesity in Youth
- Methylation in OTX2 and Related Genes, Maltreatment, and Depression in Children
- Critical Periods Revisited: Implications for Intervention With Traumatized Children
This program is sponsored by:
VistaGen Therapeutics
