Eco-Bio-Developmental Model

Question 1

What are the 3 environments in question?

Answer 1

Natural

Built

Sociocultural

Question 2

What is toxic stress?

Answer 2

the excessive or prolonged activation of the physiologic stress response systems in the absence of the buffering protection afforded by stable, responsive relationships

Question 3

What is disrupted brain architecture?

Answer 3

Within the ongoing interplay among assets for health and risks for illness, toxic stress early in life plays a critical role by disrupting brain circuitry and other important regulatory systems in ways that continue to influence physiology, behavior, and health decades later

Question 4

• Many adult diseases should be viewed as _____ disorders that begin _____
• Persistent health disparities could be reduced by the alleviation of _____ in childhood

Answer 4

• Developmental; early in life
• Toxic stress

Question 5

What can you do to help reduce the likelihood of a child experiencing an adverse childhood event?

Answer 5

• Affect children by affecting adults –> if their caregivers are well taken care of, well eduated, making good choices then the children will be in a better ecological envionrment to reduce likelihood of being exposed to risk factors that could lead to early disease/death
• ”It takes a village”
• Health Policy