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…
This article by PBS discusses the high levels of stress during the Covid-19 pandemic and the concern that child abuse may be on the rise. Dr. Sege offers ways to deal with stress as it arises to help lessen the…
This article by Apartment Therapy discusses the challenges of working from home and how to work through them with your partner, roommate or family. Dr. Sege talks about working from home with an infants, how to manage a schedule with…
This article by USA Today discusses the concerns of the decline in child abuse reporting while schools have become virtual learning spaces. Teachers, social workers, administrators and other in the education field will have a harder time reporting neglect and…
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.
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).
The four building blocks of HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) as presented by Dr. Sege.
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 (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"…
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 in completing tasks, and capacity to regulate emotions, and found that 40.3%…