ACEs Aware-developed resource on the process for screening patients for ACEs, focusing on how clinicians may gather and use information to make a clinical assessment and treatment plan.
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This is an ACEs Aware-developed sample school letter from a pediatrician to a school regarding a patient’s toxic stress symptoms and treatment plan.
Video: Introduction to Stress Busters
Background information and examples of motivational interviewing.
The User Guide outlines how the Center for Youth Wellness Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire is used at Bayview Child Health Center (BCHC-CYW).
A brief describing the importance of safe, stable, nurturing relationships, written for a lay audience.
“How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime.”
With 12 natural touch points in the first 3 years of life, pediatric well baby visits make up the most frequent point of contact with the healthcare system for families with young children , providing an opportune space to address the caregiver and family context and provide behavioral health early intervention, connect families to resources, support early child development, and mitigate intergenerational trauma and the harmful effects of toxic stress.
Overview of treatments and practices for healing from trauma.
ACEs Aware-developed resource on using a tiered clinical response framework to determine the patient education, level of intervention, and additional supports that may be needed for patients at different levels of risk for toxic stress.
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Grantee: UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
This practice paper examines ACEs and ACE screening with immigrant youth, including qualitative research conducted with adolescent health providers and adolescents to understand their perspectives on this topic, and offers recommendations for adolescent health providers to effectively implement ACE screening with immigrant youth in primary care settings. This paper is a companion document to the authors’ practice paper entitled Screening Adolescents for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Incorporating Resilience and Youth Development.
Grantee: UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
This practice paper examines ACEs and ACE screening with adolescents, including qualitative research conducted with adolescent health providers and adolescents to understand their perspectives on this topic, and offers recommendations for adolescent health providers to effectively implement ACE screening with adolescents.
Motivational techniques and skills for health and mental health coaching/counseling, published in 2013. Also see detailed examples and rationales for motivational interviewing strategies and techniques (2008).
Article about applying the principles of motivational interviewing to everyday patient interactions to elicit “behavior change” that contributes to positive health outcomes and improved patient–physician communication.