ACES by profession?

Do you mean how the ACE scores vary across the various professions? What scores do  nurses, social workers, teachers, physicians, psychologists, probation officers, police officers, lawyers etc have?  Interesting question. I would appreciate learning about any studies in that direction.

I was wondering the same thing, yet I specifically wanted to compare community college students to the rest of the population of the same age.

Yes, Dennis, that is exactly what I am looking for. Still no luck so far.

There's voluminous data on the incidence of PTSD (but not specifically ACEs) by profession. Here's a link that discusses this research:

https://academic.oup.com/occme...cle/63/3/175/1413569

Thanks Shelby. Reviewing this material reminds me of the first client I saw who was a firefighter with PTSD. I was working in the behavioral medicine department of a large HMO. He had been referred by his physician because of recurring chest pains  which the client feared were related to heart disease. In his history as it turns out, he was a first responder to a locally infamous plain crash of a privately owned saber jet into a crowded ice cream parlor located by the airport. He made his way into the wreckage only to witness the premises strewn with the bodies. Retrieving the bodies of small children was most impactful.  Not surprisingly, As it turns out  entering burning structures became trigger situations. Without exception since that time 30 years ago almost all first responders I knew (EMTs, police officers, etc.) tended to feel that these kinds of symptoms were a weakness on their part. I hope that is changing so that these brave folks can be a little kinder to themselves.

30 years ago I was not thinking in terms of ACES. It did not occur to  me to inquire systematically about this firefighter's childhood in terms of possible predisposing adverse experiences or resilience.

The resources you present makes me even more curious about the relative occurrence of ACEs among the professions compared with the general population and in comparison with each other.

I invited Dr. Felitti to Iceland in 2008 where he presented the ACE study at our annual prevention conference.  In preparation we submitted the ACE questions to 200 college students in Iceland and the scores came back pretty much the same as every were else. It made it easier to get their attention and not disregard the study as only something that happens in other countries. 

Vladmir, I found a dissertation on ACES in community college when I wrote mine on ACES in K-12 educators...here is a link.  https://digitalcommons.odu.edu...amp;context=efl_etds

Thanks Mandi,

I especially appreciated the last paragraph:

I think it would be interested in a study that looked at early career professionals, which might suggest what fields are *chosen* by people w childhood trauma?