{"id":26671,"date":"2020-04-07T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/?p=26671"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:26:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:26:18","slug":"in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"In a CNN article, HOPE Director Robert Sege discusses preventing child abuse and supporting children with positive experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1634346834041{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}&#8221;]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 experiences.[\/vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/04\/07\/health\/child-abuse-prevention-coronavirus-wellness\/index.html\" class=\"vcex-button theme-button inline\"><span class=\"vcex-button-inner theme-button-inner wpex-flex wpex-flex-wrap wpex-items-center wpex-justify-center\">Read More<\/span><\/a> [\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Sege, MD, PhD, and Melissa Merrick, PhD published a CNN article explaining how to minimize adverse experiences for children, and focus on positive experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":26675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[88,53,261,265],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-26671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aces","tag-covid","tag-in-the-news","tag-positive-childhood-experiences","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In a CNN article, HOPE Director Robert Sege discusses preventing child abuse and supporting children with positive experiences | Tufts Hope<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Robert Sege, MD, PhD, and Melissa Merrick, PhD published a CNN article explaining how to minimize adverse experiences for children, and focus on positive experiences.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In a CNN article, HOPE Director Robert Sege discusses preventing child abuse and supporting children with positive experiences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Robert Sege, MD, PhD, and Melissa Merrick, PhD published a CNN article explaining how to minimize adverse experiences for children, and focus on positive experiences.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tufts Hope\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-07T14:00:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-09T14:26:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Parents-Have-a-Right-to-Be-Stressed-Featured-e1729033215427.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"HOPE\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"In a CNN article, HOPE Director Robert Sege discusses preventing child abuse and supporting children with positive experiences\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Robert Sege, MD, PhD, and Melissa Merrick, PhD published a CNN article explaining how to minimize adverse experiences for children, and focus on positive experiences.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Parents-Have-a-Right-to-Be-Stressed-Featured-e1729033215427.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@HOPETuftsMC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@HOPETuftsMC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"HOPE\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"HOPE\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#\/schema\/person\/c06d8e872e0026fa969a755e319e4b7a\"},\"headline\":\"In a CNN article, HOPE Director Robert Sege discusses preventing child abuse and supporting children with positive experiences\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-07T14:00:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-09T14:26:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/\"},\"wordCount\":95,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Parents-Have-a-Right-to-Be-Stressed-Featured-e1729033215427.png\",\"keywords\":[\"ACEs\",\"Covid-19\",\"In the news\",\"Positive childhood experiences\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/\",\"name\":\"In a CNN article, HOPE Director Robert Sege discusses preventing child abuse and supporting children with positive experiences | Tufts Hope\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Parents-Have-a-Right-to-Be-Stressed-Featured-e1729033215427.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-07T14:00:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-09T14:26:18+00:00\",\"description\":\"Robert Sege, MD, PhD, and Melissa Merrick, PhD published a CNN article explaining how to minimize adverse experiences for children, and focus on positive experiences.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Parents-Have-a-Right-to-Be-Stressed-Featured-e1729033215427.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Parents-Have-a-Right-to-Be-Stressed-Featured-e1729033215427.png\",\"width\":900,\"height\":675},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/\",\"name\":\"Tufts Hope\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Tufts Hope\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Tufts-Hope-Logo-Retina.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Tufts-Hope-Logo-Retina.png\",\"width\":400,\"height\":190,\"caption\":\"Tufts Hope\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/HOPETuftsMC\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/hope-healthy-outcomes-from-positive-experiences\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#\/schema\/person\/c06d8e872e0026fa969a755e319e4b7a\",\"name\":\"HOPE\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/author\/tuftshope\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"In a CNN article, HOPE Director Robert Sege discusses preventing child abuse and supporting children with positive experiences | Tufts Hope","description":"Robert Sege, MD, PhD, and Melissa Merrick, PhD published a CNN article explaining how to minimize adverse experiences for children, and focus on positive experiences.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"In a CNN article, HOPE Director Robert Sege discusses preventing child abuse and supporting children with positive experiences","og_description":"Robert Sege, MD, PhD, and Melissa Merrick, PhD published a CNN article explaining how to minimize adverse experiences for children, and focus on positive experiences.","og_url":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/","og_site_name":"Tufts Hope","article_published_time":"2020-04-07T14:00:54+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-12-09T14:26:18+00:00","og_image":[{"width":900,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Parents-Have-a-Right-to-Be-Stressed-Featured-e1729033215427.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"HOPE","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"In a CNN article, HOPE Director Robert Sege discusses preventing child abuse and supporting children with positive experiences","twitter_description":"Robert Sege, MD, PhD, and Melissa Merrick, PhD published a CNN article explaining how to minimize adverse experiences for children, and focus on positive experiences.","twitter_image":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Parents-Have-a-Right-to-Be-Stressed-Featured-e1729033215427.png","twitter_creator":"@HOPETuftsMC","twitter_site":"@HOPETuftsMC","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"HOPE","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/"},"author":{"name":"HOPE","@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#\/schema\/person\/c06d8e872e0026fa969a755e319e4b7a"},"headline":"In a CNN article, HOPE Director Robert Sege discusses preventing child abuse and supporting children with positive experiences","datePublished":"2020-04-07T14:00:54+00:00","dateModified":"2025-12-09T14:26:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/"},"wordCount":95,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Parents-Have-a-Right-to-Be-Stressed-Featured-e1729033215427.png","keywords":["ACEs","Covid-19","In the news","Positive childhood experiences"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/","url":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/","name":"In a CNN article, HOPE Director Robert Sege discusses preventing child abuse and supporting children with positive experiences | Tufts Hope","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Parents-Have-a-Right-to-Be-Stressed-Featured-e1729033215427.png","datePublished":"2020-04-07T14:00:54+00:00","dateModified":"2025-12-09T14:26:18+00:00","description":"Robert Sege, MD, PhD, and Melissa Merrick, PhD published a CNN article explaining how to minimize adverse experiences for children, and focus on positive experiences.","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/news\/in-a-cnn-article-hope-director-robert-sege-discusses-preventing-child-abuse-and-supporting-children-with-positive-experiences\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Parents-Have-a-Right-to-Be-Stressed-Featured-e1729033215427.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Parents-Have-a-Right-to-Be-Stressed-Featured-e1729033215427.png","width":900,"height":675},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/","name":"Tufts Hope","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#organization","name":"Tufts Hope","url":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Tufts-Hope-Logo-Retina.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Tufts-Hope-Logo-Retina.png","width":400,"height":190,"caption":"Tufts Hope"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/HOPETuftsMC","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/hope-healthy-outcomes-from-positive-experiences\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/#\/schema\/person\/c06d8e872e0026fa969a755e319e4b7a","name":"HOPE","url":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/author\/tuftshope\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26678,"href":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26671\/revisions\/26678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26671"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=26671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}