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Reply to "Trauma score vs. Trauma effects"

There are more "ACEs" in the World Health Organization's (WHO) ACE International Questionaire than the 8, later 10, questions in the CDC/Kaiser-Permanente ACE study screening tool. The WHO ACE International Questionaire can be accessed on the WHO website [lower-right quadrant of the homepage-last time I checked].

If I read the WHO ACE International Questionaire correctly, there may be as many as 47 "Aces"-depending on answers to the original primary questions. I think also assessing the resilience scores may be a factor. In one Resilience screening questionaire, I had a Resilience score of 10, in spite of an ACE score of 6 on the US CDC/Kaiser ACE screening questions. WHO used their ACE screen in their 2013 assessment of the world's healthiest children. (Netherlands was #1, followed by most if not all of Scandinavia, ...the U.S. was only 25th, and Canada 26th...). A test of the validity of 'traumas' and resilience screening tools was done with 298 English speaking prisoners in a Nigerian Prison and reported in a scholarly journal ['recently']. 

Corinna, in answer to one question you raised about 'poor neighborhoods' in your comment above, a book I'd read in undergrad school [darn, if I can't immediately recall the title, but it addressed a 'resilience factor' in 'poor neighborhoods'. I'll work on trying to recall the title of it.]

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