Building Hope in the Face of Adversity
This handout provides some examples and tips about how to practice HOPE in your life, retraining ourselves to more easily see protective factors by building core HOPE concepts into our self-care routines.
Pediatrics On Call Podcast: Childhood Stress, Performance Enhancing Drugs
The podcast, Pediatrics on Call interviews Dr. Robert Sege about how Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) can be created to counter Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). David Hill, MD, FAAP and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP also discuss ACEs and keeping kids safe…
Parents Have a Right to Be Stressed, But Don’t Take it Out on Your Kids
This article discusses the increased stress among families and households during the covid-19 pandemic. This increase in stress can put child at a higher risk of abuse. This article explains how to minimize adverse experiences for children, and focus on…
Positive Childhood Experiences and Adult Mental Health
This handout walks you through a 2019 publication by Dr. Christina Bethell and Dr. Robert Sege about the relationship between adverse/positive childhood experiences and adult mental health, providing an empirical foundation for the language of HOPE.
PCE and Adult Mental Health
In this video, Dr. Sege presents the results of his study published in September, 2019 about the negative lifelong health effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the protective/buffering lifelong effects of Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs).
Four Building Blocks of HOPE
The four building blocks of HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) as presented by Dr. Sege.
Positive Childhood Experiences 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 data, this study finds that positive childhood experiences buffer against the negative mental…
HOPE: Phinneus Gauge and Rebuilding the Brain
HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) educational modules presented by Dr. Sege, produced by the Tufts Clinical Translational Science Institute. To see all the videos in this series playlist, click on the icon that appears to the right of "Share"…
Balancing 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 about future changes in society as changes…
Responding to ACEs With HOPE: Health 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 experiences (ACEs). This framework stems from holistic approaches of child…