It was by pure fluke 20 years ago that Rob Anda created the world’s most widely used index of trauma exposure, which in turn laid bare both its widespread prevalence and its toxic aftereffects.
Anda has seen his findings go from “junk science” in the first 10 years — when scientific journals refused to publish his work — to validation in studies in 72 nations in the last 10 years. His trauma index has spawned new schools of social work known as trauma-informed healing as well as new research in human resilience.
“We’re at the point where the science is accepted,” Anda said Friday on the final day of a groundbreaking, three-day trauma conference in Milwaukee. “I believe this is a social revolution.”
[For more on this story by John Schmid, go to https://www.jsonline.com/story...l-trauma/1459139002/]
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