Suggested Reading

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

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

— Bruce D. Perry, M.D., PhD and Oprah Winfrey

It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

— Mark Wolynn

Books

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

— Gabor Maté, M.D. and Daniel Maté

Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds

— Thomas Hübl

Parenting in the Present Moment: How to Stay Focused on What Really Matters

— Carla Naumburg, PhD

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies

— Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

— Bessel Van Der Kolk

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity

— Nadine Burke Harris

Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Health

— Donna Jackson Nakazawa

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind

— Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss

— Pauline Boss

Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

— Ross W. Greene

Magazine/Online/Newspaper Articles

 

CDC: Childhood Trauma Tied to Poor Health By Gaby Galvin

 

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

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

 

Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences

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

 

Beyond Trauma: Building Resilience to Adverse Childhood Experiences

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

 

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

Whiteside-Mansell et al. 2019

 

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

Blair et al. 2019

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

Choi et al., 2020

 

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

Hargreaves et al. 2019

 

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

Condon et al. 2019

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

Lee et al. 2020

 

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

Wade Jr. et al. 2016

 

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

Nina Fredland et al. 2018