Joining Forces Joining Families, August, 2011 - The role of trauma symptoms in the intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment

In This Issue
This issue of Joining Forces Joining Families (JFJF) focuses on the role of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and trauma symptoms as they affect the intergenerational transmission of child abuse. Our expert interview is with Drs. Joel Milner and Cynthia Thomson whose work addresses this relationship. Another feature, Should the Army Screen Soldiers for Adverse Childhood Experiences, present arguments on why the military made the decision not to screen entrants for ACE. In Building Bridges to Research, our regular statistics article, we discuss the subject of mediators and moderators, variables that may be involved in studies of cause and effect, and how outcomes can be modified by such variables.