Balanced Parenting: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) | Drs. Jennifer Hays-Grudo & Amanda Morris

Balanced Parenting is a Wholehearted.org Original 5-Part Mini Series. The series is available now, exclusively, for Wholehearted.org members.
About Episode One: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
To better understand Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), leaders in the science of child psychology, Dr. Jennifer Hays-Grudo and Dr. Amanda Sheffield Morris, describe their ACEs research-based epiphany revealing how neglect, abuse, and family dysfunction affects the brain’s ability to learn, remember, and control behavior. They identify what allows children to survive and thrive in spite of adversities-Protective And Compensatory Experiences (PACEs).
Learn more about Jennifer & Amanda's research at Wholehearted.org & ACEsandPACEs.com
The Science of PACEs
Protective and Compensatory Experiences (PACEs) are positive experiences with enduring promotive effects on health and well-being. Drawing from decades of previous research on children who have experienced adversity, we have identified ten types of experiences that promote resilience. These ten experiences in childhood and adolescence include five relationship PACEs and five environmental PACEs. Relationship PACEs are having the unconditional love from a parent or other family member, a trusted mentor outside the family, a best friend, being part of a social group of peers, and volunteering. Resource or environmental PACEs include having basic needs met (such as food and shelter), having fairly administered rules and routines, and opportunities to learn, be physically active, and develop special skills and hobbies.
Jennifer Hays-Grudo, PhD
Wholehearted Thought Leader
Jennifer is a Regents Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Center for Health Sciences at Oklahoma State University. She is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Adversity (CIRCA), an $11.3M, five-year, NIH-funded center grant that coordinates studies on the effects of trauma and poverty on children’s health and development and builds research capacity in northeast Oklahoma. From 2008 to 2013, she was a George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in Community Medicine at OU-Tulsa, where she led the Tulsa Children’s Project, a highly integrated set of interventions to reduce the effects of intergenerational poverty and adversity. With Dr. Amanda Sheffield-Morris, she is the co-author of "Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: A Developmental Perspective", published in 2019 by APA Press, and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Adversity and Resilience Science (Springer).
Amanda Sheffield Morris, PhD
Wholehearted Thought Leader
Amanda is the George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair and Regents Professor in the Department of Psychology at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Morris is a developmental scientist with research interests in parenting, socio-emotional development, and risk and resilience. She is endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Research Mentor, Level IV, and is a certified Trainer of Trainers for Active Parenting programs. Dr. Morris is a Principal Investigator on the NIH funded HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study. Dr. Morris also serves on the ABCD Culture and Environment work group as part of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study at LIBR. She has authored numerous articles and chapters on child and adolescent development and the neuroscience of emotion regulation and parenting. Dr. Morris is an Associate Editor for the new Journal Adversity and Resilience Science: Research and Practice published by Springer and she is a researcher for the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Adversity (CIRCA). She is also a co-author of the in-press book, Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: A Developmental Perspective published by the American Psychological Association.

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