Suggested Reading

Learn more about ACEs and Trauma-Informed Community building from experts in the field.

Books

 

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk

 

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris

Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Health by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

 

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss by Pauline Boss

 

Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child by Ross W. Greene

Magazine/Online/Newspaper Articles

 

CDC: Childhood Trauma Tied to Poor Health By Gaby Galvin

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How Adverse Childhood Experiences Cost $1.33 Trillion a Year by Grant Hilary Brenner MD, FAPA

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California’s first surgeon general: Screen every student for childhood trauma

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Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences

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How Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect You as an Adult by Robert Weiss Ph.D., MSW

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Beyond Trauma: Building Resilience to Adverse Childhood Experiences

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Journal Articles

 

Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults: The Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Study

Felitti et al. 1998

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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) of Urban and Rural Preschool Children in Poverty

Whiteside-Mansell et al. 2019

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How community resources mitigate the association between household poverty and the incidence of adverse childhood experience

Blair et al. 2019

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The Impact of Attachment-Disrupting Adverse Childhood Experiences on Child Behavioral Health

Choi et al., 2020

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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Health Care Utilization in a Low-Income Population

Hargreaves et al. 2019

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Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences, Family Strengths, and Chronic Stress in Children

Condon et al. 2019

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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on mental disorders in young adulthood: Latent classes and community violence exposure

Lee et al. 2020

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Household and community-level Adverse Childhood Experiences and adult health outcomes in a diverse urban population

Wade Jr. et al. 2016

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Exploring the Association of Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences with Maternal Health and Child Behavior Following Intimate Partner Violence

Nina Fredland et al. 2018

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