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1. Based on the Pediatric ACEs and Related Life Events Screener for the case study:
Analyze what you learned from the assessment and how you might use it in practice.
By drawing at least 3 varied connections between the assessment and the case study.
Response provides specific and/or added examples for how learning from the assessment can be applied in practice.

2. What plans would you make for working with this family based on the identified ACEs?

3. How would you administer the ACEs assessment in this case or other cases involving young children?

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This posting establishes the relationship between ACE screener questionnaire and the Hernandez Family case study

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1. Based on the Pediatric ACEs and Relative Life Events Screener for the case study what I learned from the assessment was that there are specific events in the life of a child that can have a traumatic impact on the child. These include events such as the parent going to jail, the child being unprotected, or having a parent who had mental health issues. In practice, this would mean the social worker has to use approaches such as openly discussing the trauma and addressing parental trauma. I have also learned from the assessment that trauma to children is also caused by insulting the child, humiliating it, or putting it down. Further, trauma may be caused to a child if the caretaker or the biological parent has a problem with street drugs, prescription medication, or has too much alcohol. Similarly, if the child lacked appropriate care by any caretaker, seeing her parent being screamed at, insulted, or humiliated by another adult is also traumatized. In practice, social workers should use trauma-informed language to reduce further dramatization, mentor the birth parents of the child, and if necessary involving them in collaborative parenting. There can be several causes of trauma. When a child sees that a parent is being beaten up, lashed out, or being hurt with a weapon, the child is traumatized. The actions of adults also cause childhood trauma. If an adult pushes, harms, or attempts to harm a child it is severe trauma for the child. Even threats to a ...

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