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”…
CDC: Childhood Trauma Is A Public Health Issue And We Can Do More To Prevent It
This article by NPR discusses a report on childhood trauma published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in November, 2019. The report emphasized the serious, lifelong health effects of experiencing traumatic things as a child – bad experiences…
Family Resilience And Connection Promote Flourishing Among US 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 in completing tasks, and capacity to regulate emotions, and found that 40.3%…
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 of flourishing are: happiness…
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…
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 positive early life experiences in adults with histories of childhood adversity. The BCEs was developed to be multiculturally sensitive and applicable regardless of social…
Adverse Childhood Experiences Can Be Connectors to Joy | Martha Londagin | TEDxDicksonStreet
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) affect millions of people in regard to their adult relationships, physical well being, and mental health. Martha’s change in attitude toward her childhood experiences led her to see the joy in her life today, due to…