Attending to Adults with high ACEs

I work with adults with a diagnosis of mental illness and have been using and "translating" material focused on kids (we all have inner children). I'd love to see curriculum for this group and have considered finding folks to work with to develop/adapt work, especially by Dan Siegel and the Goldie Hawn Foundation. Mark Brady's blog, The Flowering Brain on Wordpress, has been a marvelous resource. I'm also familiar with the work of Peter Levine and Bessel Van der Kolk and several people focused on mindfulness.

Please keep me in the loop as you and others find things.

Hi Brian,

as a 6 out of 8 ACE scorer myself, I have long looking for stuff to make "sense out of the non-sense"

Recently found a helpful book by psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk called " The Body Keeps the Score".  He explores how trauma victims retain trauma at both a physiological as well as psychological level Also offers a variety of modalities of therapeutic practices and techniques to both ease and heal the symptoms.

What I like about it is that unlike some professionals who are locked in a set prescriptive approach, Van der Kolk acknowledges that " One size does NOT fit all" and that "Different strokes for different folks" is more likely to offer good outcomes.

That said, there is a plethora of books which focus on more specific types of trauma, including many which are more gender specific than others.

some areas are less easy to find material than others however.  Child sexual abuse of pre pubescent boys by adult women, as a for instance.

cant advise on programmes regrettably, as we are still behind the times here in the UK about ACE stuff.

best of luck

John F.