Alabama Pediatrician: Conversations & Information for Your Practice
The "Alabama Pediatrician" is a service to members of the Alabama Chapter-American Academy of Pediatrics. With each episode, we bring you up-to-date information affecting pediatric practice in Alabama, including relevant updates from state pediatric leaders as well as "hot" clinical topics from pediatric specialist experts in Alabama.
Alabama Pediatrician: Conversations & Information for Your Practice
Relational Health: Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences and Childhood Toxic Stress
Dr. Elizabeth Dawson and Dr. Michael Arenson join us to talk about relational health! This is part one of a two episode series on adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress and how YOU can prevent it and promote relational health!
"Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it. "
- Mary Oliver
Check out the Pediatrics article on Preventing Childhood Toxic Stress: click here.
Check out the AAP's Toolkit on Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences: click here.
Check out the CDC's resources on ACEs: click here.
As mentioned in the episode, check out the Surgeon General's article on Loneliness: click here.
Resources mentioned by Dr. Dawson:
- Alabama Network of Family Resource Centers: click here.
- Troy Resilience Project: click here.
Other resources on Relational Health and Childhood Toxic Stress/Adverse Childhood Experiences worth checking out too!
- Reach Out and Read's Early Literacy Research Library (ELRL): click here.
- National Children's Advocacy Center's Child Abuse Library Online (CALiO): click here.