Childhood Disrupted Book Review: Lessons for Ministry

Childhood Disrupted Book Review: Lessons for Ministry

The new psychobiological theory of everything. That is how some researchers refer to adverse childhood experiences or ACEs. In Childhood Disrupted, Donna Jackson Nakazawa unpacks and applies much of this groundbreaking research to the reader’s life. In this article,...
The Effects of ACEs on Behavior Addictions

The Effects of ACEs on Behavior Addictions

To begin our discussion of the effects of ACEs on behavior addictions, we first need to define behavior addictions. What Are Behavior Addictions? When we think of addiction, we typically think of addiction to substances like alcohol or other drugs.  However,...
The Effects of ACEs by Gender

The Effects of ACEs by Gender

The original ACE study did not examine the effects of ACEs by gender, as researchers were still starting this line of research. However, more recently, researchers have been looking at these gender differences and found some interesting things.  As we go through...
The Effects of ACEs on Vocation

The Effects of ACEs on Vocation

This section will cover the effects of ACEs on vocation and include summaries of research on their effects on marriage, parenting, and career. Unfortunately, there isn’t any research on how ACEs can affect priestly and religious vocations, so we won’t be able to...
The Effects of ACEs on the Soul

The Effects of ACEs on the Soul

Research on the effects of ACEs has not focused much on the effects of ACEs on the soul. However, there has been lots of research on how religion and spirituality can protect a person from the potential adverse effects of ACEs, which we discuss here. Despite this lack...
The Effects of ACEs on the Mind

The Effects of ACEs on the Mind

When it came to the effects of ACEs on the mind, the original ACE study solely looked at the risk of depression. These findings indicated that ACEs increase the risk of developing depression.  Since the original ACE study, many studies have looked at how ACEs...