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Changing Medicine and Building Community: Maine’s Adverse Childhood Experiences Momentum

Author(s) -

Leslie Forstadt,

SallyAnn Cooper,

Sue Andrews

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

the permanente journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.445

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 1552-5775

pISSN - 1552-5767

DOI - 10.7812/tpp/14-169

Subject(s) - adverse childhood experiences , medicine , intervention (counseling) , psychological resilience , adverse effect , medical home , early childhood , medical education , family medicine , nursing , psychiatry , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychology , primary care , mental health

Physicians are instrumental in community education, prevention, and intervention for adverse childhood experiences. In Maine, a statewide effort is focusing on education about adverse childhood experiences and ways that communities and physicians can approach childhood adversity. This article describes how education about adversity and resilience can positively change the practice of medicine and related fields. It exemplifies the collective impact model by increasing community knowledge, affecting medical practice, and improving lives.

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