What are Adverse Childhood Experiences, and how do they relate to health across the lifespan? | Homework Helpers

Focus questions:

Which two implicit bias tests did you choose to take, and why? Based on the definition of implicit bias provided by the study, what do you think your test results mean?

What are Adverse Childhood Experiences, and how do they relate to health across the lifespan?

Based on the Adverse Childhood Experiences research brief and this week’s textbook readings, what conclusions can we draw about the most common Adverse Childhood Experiences related to PLACE (think back, too, to our previous week’s lessons and how place influences health).

Based on all of the readings and videos this week, do you think people choose their own health? Is it as simple as that? Explain how it’s complicated.

– Resources:
The Atlantic: It is Expensive to be Poor

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/02/388994897/poll-finds-factors-large-and-small-shape-peoples-health