Christine Cissy White posted:Martha Chiavetta posted:Not impossible at all!! A little educational infrastructure can go a long way. And your progress is immense!!! This information is now everywhere. And where it isn't it's still well received. It's validating so many people. I think it is healthy here to embrace criticisms so that this work can continue to grow.
Martha:
I totally agree. I think doubts and debates are healthy. I think we can share access to this public health info. In varied ways in and outside of the context of screening and need not wait for evidence-based whatever before doing so. As parents, survivors, families and communities - we can to decide for ourselves if and we can and are deciding how to use / share ACEs-related aha moments or social movements. Debates will continue.
I would love evidence based research on the impact of not sharing or screening as well... The fear and avoidance many have, in and outside of medical settings isn't benign.
But at least more of us know, discuss and debate this stuff and I find that encouraging. Cissy
Indeed, irrespective of Finkelhor's article, thankfully little is now going to "stop" the ACEs-awareness social movement -- it's never been, nor, realistically, can it ever be an "ACEs Science" -- "ACEs" per se are not scientific facts, they are subjective reports of difficulties people are experiencing with a presumed basis -- the same as any self-reported psychological / social difficulties -- the term is though highly useful as a rallying cry for a social movement. And that social movement will continue, at least for a while, irrespective of, and in the longer term despite, whatever may be the outcomes of research. But let's hope people engaged in the activities of that social movement have the integrity, and the courage, not to mention the skills, to objectively evaluate the cost-benefits of any changes they bring about. That will help address at least one of Finkelhor's longer term concerns.