Child Physical Abuse Did Not Increase During the Pandemic HOPE suggests that providers identify, celebrate, and promote positive childhood experiences. In this paper, published in the American Medical Association’s journal, JAMA Pediatrics, Bob Sege and Allison Stephens do just that.…
Transforming Practice with HOPE This paper describes the growing evidence that supports the health effects of positive childhood experiences, and uses these insights to promote HOPE: a paradigm shift that will incorporate the identification, celebration, and support of PCEs as…
Reasons for HOPE (Sege, 2021) This article discusses the ways pediatricians benefit from adopting the HOPE framework in their practice. Focusing on identifying the strengths of families during the COVID-19 pandemic, promoting resilience for families and developing an antiracist approach…
Positive Childhood Experience and Adult Mental and Relational Health in a Statewide Sample Questions about seven Positive Childhood Experiences related to family, friends, and school/the community were added to the 2015 Wisconsin Behavioral Risk Factor Survey (BRFS). From this survey…
Family Resilience and Connection Promote Flourish Among U.S. Children, Even Amid Adversity This study looked at flourishing, defined as: engagement, positive relationships, competence, positive emotion, and self esteem. The authors measured children’s interest and curiosity in learning new things, persistence…
Reimagining Health - Flourishing This opinion piece presents flourishing as a better metric for measuring health (compared to physical measures like blood pressure or life expectancy) because it takes multiple parts of a person’s life into account. The six domains…
Positive childhood experiences predict less psychopathology and stress in pregnant women with childhood adversity: A pilot study of the benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) scale This pilot study examined the usefulness of the BCE scale, a new instrument designed to assess…
Responding to ACEs with HOPE: Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences This article introduces the Healthy Outcomes of Positive Experiences (HOPE) language, which focuses on promoting child health and well-being through positive experiences that potentially counteract the effects of adverse childhood…
Balancing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) with HOPE This is a report presenting HOPE data, which shows the powerful impact of positive experiences on the development of healthy children and adults. The report also discusses social norms around parenting and thinks…
Modifiable Resilience Factors to Childhood Adversity for Clinical Pediatric Practice This article describes 5 modifiable resilience factors to improve children’s long- and short-term health: fostering positive appraisal styles in children and bolstering executive function improving parenting supporting maternal mental health…