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Article highlighting Dr. Bethell’s collaboration with Mississippi Thrive March 13, 2023
Article referencing Dr. Bethell's research January 25, 2022
Article referencing Dr. Bethell's research May 19, 2021
Article referencing Dr. Bethell January 8, 2020
Article by PACEs Connection referencing work led by Dr. Bethell December 2, 2020
Interview with NPR and Dr. Bethell September 9, 2019
Article referencing Dr. Bethell's research September 9, 2019
Blog by PACEs Connection covering Dr. Bethell's congressional testimony July 11, 2019
Article covering Dr. Bethell's congressional testimony July 11, 2019
A Forbes article featuring the expert opinion of Dr. Bethell May 30, 2019
Article referencing Dr. Bethell's research May 17, 2019
A Weber Sentinal News article with quotes from Dr. Bethell April 23, 2019
Video of Dr. Bethell's testimony from the first ever U.S., Congressional Hearing on Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Childhood Trauma July 30, 2019
Article published in Contemporary Pediatrics that discusses Dr. Bethell's research November 26, 2019
Article referencing Dr. Bethell's research July 10, 2018
Article referencing Dr. Bethell's presentation at APHA November 7, 2017
Article describing the national research and policy agenda to address ACEs October 10, 2017
Blog post by Dr. Bethell published on the Academy Health blog September 5, 2017
Article referencing Dr. Bethell's research September 5, 2017
Article referencing Dr. Bethell's research November 23, 2015
Article referencing Dr. Bethell's research December 8, 2014
Dr. Bethell and colleagues lead an exploratory discussion on a positive health approach to public health and the global inner developmental goals.
Episode 33 of the Transforming Trauma podcast presented by the NARM Training Institute. Features Dr. Bethell who discusses the basics of trauma and trauma-informed care.
Dr. Bethell discusses the data, measures, and policy possibilities to address whole child well-being
Video by the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color on Dr. Bethell's healing-centered Recommendations Roadmap for a racially just, healing-centered, trauma-informed approach to California state expenditures of the prisoner re-entry and marijuana tax dollars.
Podcast by NeuroMovement Revolution featuring Dr. Bethell, who discusses her We Are the Medicine and Prioritizing Possibilities frameworks, the whole child and whole family approach to trauma, and how her work uses data and measurement strategies to promote healing and flourishing.
Podcast by WebMD Health Now featuring Dr. Bethell, who discusses the potential for both positive and negative childhood experiences as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recorded presentation of Dr. Bethell presenting her We Are the Medicine Framework at the 2020 Thrive Summit hosted by the North Valley Foundation.
Recorded presentation in which Dr. Bethell discusses her optimistic takeaways from the 2020 Pinetree Institute Resilience Conference, including her framework from fixing to connecting, relational health, and positive childhood experiences as protective factors against trauma.
Recorded presentation in which Dr. Bethell discusses the duality of illness/adversity and flourishing/wellbeing, the importance of lived experiences, and the potential of positive experiences to lead to flourishing.
Recorded presentation of Dr. Bethell delivering the keynote speech at the 2019 Michigan ACE Initiative Conference. Dr. Bethell discusses childhood adversity, flourishing, and moving from awareness to resilience.
Dr. Bethell answers a question posed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences and childhood trauma.
Recorded testimony in which Dr. Bethell discusses the biology of toxic stress as a result of lived experiences at the 2019 Congressional Healing on Identifying, Preventing, and Healing Childhood Trauma.
Recorded presentation of Dr. Bethell and other experts speaking on childhood trauma at a panel discussion
for the National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect (EndCAN). Dr. Bethell discusses family
healing, community support, policy, and relational health.
Recorded presentation of Dr. Bethell at the 2017 Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs Conference. Dr. Bethell explains her framework for transforming data into action and systems change.
Recorded presentation of Dr. Bethell delivering her presentation at the 2016 ChildX Stanford Symposium. Dr. Bethell discusses the science of thriving, belonging, mindfulness, and relational health.
Interview of Dr. Bethell about her ChildX presentation, "Thriving in a Changing Environment" in which she discusses her We Are the Medicine framework.
A comprehensive video on childhood trauma with testimony from various experts, including Dr. Bethell, presented by the HealthHappensHere public education campaign of the California Endowment. Discusses the definition of adverse childhood experiences, their prevalence, and how childhood trauma affects adult health.
Bethell C, Wells N, Bergman D, Reuland C, Stumbo SP, Gombojav N, Simpson LA. Scaling Family Voices and Engagement to Measure and Improve Systems Performance and Whole Child Health: Progress and Lessons from the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2023;22(6):952-964. doi: 0.1007/s10995-023-03755-9
Bethell C, Blackwell CK, Gombojav N, Davis MB, Bruner C, Garner AS. Toward Measurement for a Whole Child Health Policy: Validity and National and State Prevalence of Integrated Child Risk Index. Acad Pediatr. 2022;22(6):952-964. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2021.12.001
Bethell C, Garner AS, Gombojav N, Blackwell C, Heller L, Mendelson T. Social and Relational Health Risks and Common Mental Health Problems Among US Children: The Mitigating Role of Family Resilience and Connection to Promote Positive Socioemotional and School-Related Outcomes. Child Adolesc Psychiatr. 2022;31(1):45-70. doi: 10.1016/j.chc.2021.08.001
Bergman D, Bethell C, Gombojav N, Hassink S, Stange KC. Physical Distancing with Social Connectedness. Ann Fam Med. 2020;18(3):272-277. doi: 10.1370/afm.2538
Family Resilience and Connection to Promote Flourishing Among UC Children, Even Amid Adversity (Health Affairs, 2019)
Bethell CD, Gombojav N, Whitaker RC. Family Resilience And Connection Promote Flourishing Among US Children, Even Amid Adversity. Health Aff (Millwood). 2019;38(5):729-737. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05425
Bethell C, Jones J, Gombojav N, Linkenbach J, Sege R. Positive Childhood Experiences and Adult Mental and Relational Health in a Statewide Sample: Associations Across Adverse Childhood Experiences Levels [published online ahead of print, 2019 Sep 9] [published correction appears in JAMA Pediatr. 2019 Sep 30]. JAMA Pediatr. 2019;173(11):e193007. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.3007
Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative. Recommendations Roadmap for California Proposition 64 Expenditures: Advancing Healing-Centered and Trauma-Informed Approaches to Promote Individual, Family, and Community Resilience. In collaboration with a statewide advisory committee coordinated with the California Campaign to Counter Childhood Adversity (4CA). Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. 2019.
Bethell C, Kennedy S, Martinez-Vidal E, Simpson L. Payment for progress: Investing to catalyze child and family well-being using personalized and integrated strategies to address social and emotional determinants of health. Washington, DC: AcademyHealth. 2018.
Bethell CD, Solloway MR, Guinosso S, et al. Prioritizing Possibilities for Child and Family Health: An Agenda to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences and Foster the Social and Emotional Roots of Well-being in Pediatrics. Acad Pediatr. 2017;17(7S):S36-S50. doi:10.1016/j.acap.2017.06.002
Sege R, Bethell C, Linkenbach J, Jones J, Klika B, Pecora, PJ. Balancing adverse childhood experiences with HOPE: New insights into the role of positive experience on child and family development. Boston: The Medical Foundation. www.cssp.org. Published 2017.
Bethell CD, Simpson LA, Solloway MR. Child Well-Being and Adverse Childhood Experiences in the US. Academic Pediatrics. 2019;17(7):S1-S158.
The Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative, in partnership with the Children's Hospital Association, the Center for the Study of Social Policy, and Prevent Child Abuse America, 2016.
Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice, 2021.
InCK Marks and Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative Resource Brief, 2019.
Bethell, CD, Davis, MB, Gombojav, N, Stumbo, S, Powers, K. Issue Brief: A national and across state profile on adverse childhood experiences among children and possibilities to heal and thrive. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, October 2017. http://www.cahmi.org/projects/adverse-childhood-experiences-aces/