Table 4 ACE Question Definitions

 Emotional Neglect

Caregiver did not understand your problems/worries; did not know what you were doing with your free time

 Physical Neglect

Caregiver did not give you enough food or sending you to school even it could easily been done;too drunk/intoxicated by drugs to take care of you

 Alcohol and/or drug abuser in the household

Lived with a household member who was a problem drinker, alcoholic, or misused street/prescription drugs

 Incarcerated household member

Lived with a household member who ever sent to jail or prison

 Someone chronically depressed, mentally ill, institutionalized or suicidal

Lived with a household member who was depressed, mentally ill, or suicidal

 One or no parents, parental separation or divorce

Parents ever separated/divorced, or father/mother/guardian died

 Physical Abuse

You being spanked/ slapped/kicked/ punched/beaten up; or being hit/cut with an object by parents/guardian

 Emotional Abuse

You were yelled at/screamed at/sworn at/insulted or humiliated, or were threatened/abandoned, thrown out by parents/guardian

 Household member treated violently

Saw or heard a parent/household member being yelled at/screamed at/sworn at/ insulted or humiliated; being slapped/kicked/punched/beaten up; or being hit/cut with an object

 Bullying

Being bullied

 Community Violence

See or hear someone being beaten up, stabbed, shot, or being threatened with a knife or gun in real life

 Collective Violence

Forced to go and live in other place; experienced destrubtion of home due to these events; you or family member or friend killed or beaten up by soldiers, police, gangs, or militia