To me, ACEs is all of those sciences in the "unified science" of human development. If someone talks about the ACE Study, they should talk about all of it.
Take a look at some of the case studies in the Community Resilience Cookbook, Corinna. Tarpon Springs, FL, is a good one to start with. And you'll see resilience in action!
And I -- and many, many others -- agree with you that the mental health system needs to integrate all of this. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation came out with a report that said organizations must institute trauma-informed, resilience-building practices themselves before they implement them with their clients/students/patients/prisoners. That means acknowledging that we're all in this together. There is no them and us. And that mental health professionals are in partnership with their clients in helping them heal...not taking the approach that the mental health professionals are healthy and their job is to heal people who are ill.
