Reframing Childhood Adversity: Promoting Upstream Approaches
Abstract
This brief seeks to work through framing challenges, offering guidance on positioning, emphasis, and explanation. It is intended for professionals who communicate about child wellbeing and adversity – a broad field that includes advocates, researchers, and practitioners working on issues including child abuse and neglect, family violence, (ACEs), early trauma and trauma-informed care, and toxic stress. The guidance has implications for a wide variety of communications goals and contexts, but it is most relevant for efforts designed to educate the public about strategies that work at the community and policy levels.
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Keywords
child maltreatment, Adverse Childhood Experiences, messaging, policy, prevention, public perception
Citation
Sweetland, J. (2021). Reframing Childhood Adversity: Promoting Upstream Approaches. Frameworks Institute.