In May 2023, the APA published “APA Panel Issues Recommendations for Adolescent Social Media Use.” Here’s the text:

These studies offer interesting perspectives on substance use by teens. First, Adamsons & Russell (2023) published “Longitudinal Transmission of Risk Behaviors Between Mothers, Fathers, and Adolescents” in Journal of Family Psychology. Here’s the abstract with bold:

Both of these studies highlight buffering, the first by school climate and the second by family support. First, Clark, Strissel, Demaray, Ogg, Eldridge & Malecki (2022) published “Victimization and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescence: The role of perceived school climate” in School Psychology.

I have written before about discipline. Here, I summarize an article that adds to our understanding. Wang, Scanlon, & Del Toro (2023) published “Does Anyone Benefit from Exclusionary Discipline? An exploration on the direct and vicarious links between suspensions for minor infraction and adolescents’ academic achievement” in American Psychologist. I begin with the edited impact statement and abstract (I am omitting references for sake of brevity but all claims are well-documented):

As promised, I am following up the last article summary with a series of abstracts related to executive function. First, Moffett et al. (2022) published “Enrollment in Pre-K and Children's Social-Emotional and Executive Functioning Skills: To what extent are associations sustained across time?”

Here, I address four studies, all addressing anxiety or social anxiety. Abrams (2022) published “What Neuroscience Tells Us About the Teenage Brain” in APA’s Six Things Psychologists are Talking About. I am editing the piece to focus on anxiety:

Here, I present four recent studies related to trauma. First, Truss, Liao Siling, Phillips, Eastwood & Bendall (2022) published “Barriers to Young People Seeking Help for Trauma: A qualitative analysis of Internet forums” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Here’s a slightly edited transcript:

I am going to present four longitudinal studies of attachment with research addressing parental experience before becoming parents, attachment history and friendships, parent-adolescent relationships and successful peer and romantic relationships, and insecure attachment and personality pathology. Each study is nuanced and complex but well worth examining.

Two recent studies utilize social learning theory to investigate drug use. Otten & Ha (2022) published “Drug Use Talk in Adolescent Friendship Interactions: Long-term effects of social learning on lifetime diagnosed substance use disorders” in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Here’s their abstract:

The Harvard Gazette published “Parents Are So Wrong About Teenage Sleep and Health” on September 28, 2022. They summarize results of a survey conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Two recent studies suggest the importance of belonging in school. First, Rambaran, Hoffman, Rivas-Drake, Schaefer, Umaña-Taylor & Ryan (2022) published “Belonging in Diverse Contexts: Sociability among same-ethnic and cross-ethnic peers” in Psychology. Here’s the abstract:

Olivier, Morin, Leo & Salmela-Aro (2022) published “The Interconnected Development of Depressive Symptoms and School Functioning from Mid-adolescence to Early Adulthood: A piecewise growth mixture analysis” in Journal of Educational Psychology.

Xia (2022) published “Different Families, Diverse Strengths: Long-term implications of early childhood family processes on adolescent positive functioning” in Developmental Psychology. I like research that focuses on different models of family functioning. The sample size here and its diversity are acceptable. Here’s the abstract:

De Los Reyes et al. (2022) published “The Work and Social Adjustment Scale for Youth: Psychometric properties of the teacher version and evidence of contextual variability in psychosocial impairments” in Psychological Assessment.

Olino, Finsaas, Dyson, Carlson, & Klein (2022) published “A Multimethod, Multiinformant Study of Early Childhood Temperament and Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescence” in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Here’s the abstract:

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:

Guo et al. (2022) published “The Roles of Social–Emotional Skills in Students’ Academic and Life Success: A multi-informant and multicohort perspective” in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Here’s the abstract:

Kouros, Keller, Martin-Pinon & El-Sheikh (2022) published “Bidirectional Associations Between Nightly Sleep and Daily Happiness and Negative Mood in Adolescents” in Child Development. I have written about sleep before, but like this study because it uses both sleep diaries and actigraphy with a relatively diverse sample. Here’s the abstract:

Venturo-Conerly, Fitzpatrick, Horn, Uguerto & Weisz (2022) published “Effectiveness of Youth Psychotherapy Delivered remotely: A meta-analysis” in American Psychologist.

Here, I present four studies related to gender diverse youth. In the first, published in “6 Things Psychologists Are Talking About” (November 2022), we have the following: