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Reply to "Simple article or blog explaining ACES for parents of small children"

I wanted to clarify my prior comment bringing up the recent article that Dr. Anda co-authored. I in no way meant to imply not sharing about ACEs in general. This quote is mostly what prompted my reply:

"Unlike recognized public health screening measures, such as blood pressure or lipid levels that use measurement reference standards and cut points or thresholds for clinical decision making, the ACE score is not a standardized measure of childhood exposure to the biology of stress. The authors are concerned that ACE scores are being misappropriated as a screening or diagnostic tool to infer individual client risk and misapplied in treatment algorithms that inappropriately assign population-based risk for health outcomes from epidemiologic studies to individuals."

I interpreted the original question - asking for a resource to provide information via email during this time and particular concern about DV - as not necessarily being the most appropriate (least harmful) way of sharing the ACEs information, imho. Considering that many families are experiencing a heightened state of stress, I think it is important to be mindful of the way we go about sharing the information with them, providing context and ensuring they have access to supportive resources should they find the information triggering. Drawing attention to the article was merely a way of pointing out that it has inappropriately been utilized to infer "individual client risk" when that is not the intention. 

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