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I don't want to be the Debbie Downer here but I am going to state --- I really believe we need to do something better than that resilience score. The original videos presented and thinking on having a resilience score seemed to be "we don't want you going home and 'oh I have an ACE score of 10' so we put in a resilience score." For so many of us with a 10 plus ACEs score where the abuse was intense, prolonged and sadistic, that scale has so many questions that are completely out of ones control and it is really hard to read as the first two questions "when you were growing up did your mom love you, did your dad, did you have a special teacher that cared, did you participate in activities outside the home?" Etc. As we move this work to for example kids from foster care or the kids in Florida juvenile justice system, we see much higher ACEs and as I would predict lower resilience on that scale which gives no insight to what or how one is doing in the here and now, it isn't in the present moment. To me it lacks mindfulness. I find it painful to read and as we branch into more deeply traumatized populations, I believe we will want to look at a scale that looks at where an individual is now. Part of resilience is to overcome. I can never overcome or change the truth that while I was growing up, no one loved me, but I can change things now. Hope that makes sense! thanks
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