Dee Ann Miller posted:Michele Grupe posted:Hi all,
Looking for data/research on how practitioner's ACE/Resiliency score impacts 1) their decision to enter their field, 2) their ability to provide trauma informed care, 3) burnout from stress. ACEs Connection Napa is considering applying for an innovations grant to provide support to practitioners and develop it into a 'They are We' type of public service campaign. Any links/thoughts appreciated.
Michele, I think this is a very important study. I hope you will also consider incorporating some exploration into what level of functioning ACE survivors who are professionals have achieved. There are plenty of ACE survivors among providers who remain seriously impaired. I'd like to see how those who are not have managed to overcome, perhaps early in life. Also, a breakdown in what the specific ACE's may have been. I suspect many of us learned early in life to take care of parents who had much higher ACE scores than we ourselves may have. There are so many interesting things to explore in all of this.
Dee Ann Miller
When I self-administered the CDC/Kaiser ACE screen, I scored 6; and I also did the Resilience questionaire, and scored 10. My ACE score might have been significantly higher if I'd used the World Health Organization's ACE International Questionaire- available on the WHO website with a "User's Guide". I'd recommend the World Health Organization's ACE screen, because it includes a lot of other "ACEs" than the CDC/Kaiser-Permanente screen, although I've yet to ascertain how to score it, and whether a more comprehensive "Resilience score" screen tool exists anywhere.