A Chronic Public Health Disaster (March, 2011) Rick Cole has written a column on the direct connection between childhood trauma and serious and costly, mental, emotional and physical illnesses that show up in adulthood.
Protective Factors Survey The PFS is a self-administered survey that measures protective factors in five areas: family functioning/resilency, social support, concrete support, nurturing and attachment, and knowledge of parenting/child development.
Adverse Childhood Experiences Study The ACE Study is perhaps the largest scientific research study
of its kind, analyzing the relationship between multiple categories of childhood trauma
(ACEs), and health and behavioral outcomes later in life.