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…
Essentials for Childhood: Promoting Healthy Outcomes From Positive Experiences In January 2014, the Centers for Disease Control held a kickoff meeting to begin implementation of Essentials for Childhood: Steps to Creating Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships in the state of Georgia. Essentials is a strategy…