Resilience
The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope
The original research was controversial, but the findings revealed the most important public health findings of a generation. RESILIENCE is a one-hour documentary that delves into the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the birth of a new movement to treat and prevent Toxic Stress. Now understood to be one of the leading causes of every- thing from heart disease and cancer to substance abuse and depression, extremely stressful experiences in childhood can alter brain development and have lifelong effects on health and behavior.
However, as experts and practitioners profiled in RESILIENCE are proving, what’s predictable is preventable. These physicians, educators, social workers and communities are daring to talk about the effects of divorce, abuse and neglect. And they’re using cutting edge science to help the next generation break the cycles of adversity and disease.
Director
James Redford
Producer
Brook Holston
Runtime
60 Minutes
Rights Represented
Educational Rights
Captions Available
English
Language
English
Press
“There was a sense of disbelief. People actually said, ‘Rob, this can’t be true. Because if this were really true, it would’ve been studied and published.’”
- Dr. Robert Anda, Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control
“Being in a community where you are hearing gunshots on the daily, where you are having friends who are being killed or being incarcerated, that really affects your body. It gets under your skin.”
- Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, Surgeon General of California
“We tend to the world of mental health from the world of physical health. But the body doesn’t do that. The body is only one.”
- Dr. Victor Carrion, Stanford University
“This is the biggest public health discovery we’ve ever seen.”
- Laura Porter, Co-Founder, ACE Interface
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