studies & articles
The Blog
One of the many pleasures of being a professor was feeling the need to stay on top of the research in psychology. When I first learned about the half-life of knowledge, the literature typically said it was 3-5 years in technical fields. As a retired professor, I am still a member of the American Psychological Association and subscribe to a service that delivers abstracts and open-source articles from a large number of journals. As an alumna of Harvard, I also get information from them and I have the time to peruse multiple sources. This is a pleasure most professionals don’t have, especially if they value
work-life balance.
I still love research and, when I was asked to write the blog, I enthusiastically agreed. I try to select articles based on their relevance to practitioners, but also to capture both emerging themes and important corrections. I am hopeful that, moving forward, we will have ways to enable readers to easily engage in conversations with me and each other.
-Dr. Karen Nelson
The Adverse Life Events Inventory for Children
Meraj et al. (2022) published “Introducing the Adverse Life Events Inventory for Children (ALEIC): An examination of adverse experiences and related impacts in a large clinical sample of children and youth” in Traumatology. Here’s the abstract:
ACEs screening in adolescent primary care
Hostutler, Snider, Wolf, & Grant (2022) published “ACEs Screening in Adolescent Primary Care: Psychological flexibility as a moderator” in Families, Systems, & Health. I have posted about ACEs before and the challenge of knowing when asking about them can be harmful. In this study, they argue that screening for psychological flexibility may be important in order to work first on modifying flexibility before examining ACEs. Here’s the abstract: