My very first experience with ACEs came from watching Nadine Burke Harris’ Ted talk (Burke Harris, How trauma affects health across a lifetime, 2014). I’ve just read her book The Deepest Well (Burke Harris, 2018) and it is obvious to me how much she said in her Ted talk that I did not fully understand.
Her book is an example of how a prepared mind gets prepared for learning something new. It is a narrative organized sequentially in time. It starts well before she encountered ACEs and shows the foundational knowledge and experience that she had as a student, a scientist, and a practitioner which provided her underlying experience and understanding of ACEs. It continues, after her gaining an understanding of ACEs, with her developing ACE aware technologies and advocating for integrating ACEs in medical practice, in educational practice, and in our society.
I was lucky because her Ted talk prepared my mind and allowed me to see how ACEs could affect our society as a whole and my understanding of the science of sociology.
I suggest re-viewing her Ted talk. Reading the book. And viewing her Ted talk again. It is amazing how much information was tucked into that Ted talk. Her book is an excellent example of the evolution of knowledge in a new field.
While her book does not contain a bibliography or footnotes it does have extensive endnotes and an index. I think it would be an excellent resource for any class studying ACEs.
Works Cited
Burke Harris, N. (2014, September). How trauma affects health across all lifetime. Retrieved from TEDMED. TED': https://www.ted.com/talks/nadi...lifetime?language=en
Burke Harris, N. (2018). The Deepest Well, Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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