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Why Child Welfare Experts Fear a Spike of Abuse During COVID-19

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 …

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Here’s How to Work from Home with Your Partner, Kids, Roomate, or Parent

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 infan…

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Children More at Risk for Abuse or Neglect During Coronavirus

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 ed…

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Advice for ID Parents on Coping with Coronavirus

This article in Public News Service highlights advice from Dr. Sege regarding looking after your family during the pandemic. He discusses how to talk with your children about the pandemic and ways to …

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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 …

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 l…

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, …

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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 playli…

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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 …

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 ne…

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 l…