Adamowicz, Sirotiak & Thomas (2022) published “Childhood Maltreatment and Somatic Symptoms: Examining the role of specific types of childhood maltreatment and alexithymia” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

Kaufman, Laninga-Wijnen & Lodder (2022) published “Are Victims of Bullying Primarily Social Outcasts? Person-group dissimilarities in relational, socio-behavioral, and physical characteristics as predictors of victimization” in Child Development. I like this study because it reminds us of the value of an “it all depends” approach to understanding bullying.

Fleck, et al. (2022) published “Child Versus Adolescent Borderline Personality Disorder Traits: Frequency, psychosocial correlates, and observed mother–child interactions” in Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. This study is helpful in examining child behavior. Here’s the abstract:

Speyer, Hang, Hall & Murray (2022) published “The role of harsh parenting practices in early- to middle-childhood socioemotional development: An examination in the Millennium Cohort Study” in Child Development.

I’ve written before about psychopathy. Here, I add more confusion to discussion of its clinical assessment. Larsen, Koch, Jalava & Griffiths (2022) published “Are Psychopathy Assessments Ethical? A view from forensic mental health” in Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. I am starting with this one because, increasingly, clinicians are being asked to complete threat assessments, especially of adolescents who have been charged or incarcerated. Yet, we know that most adolescents have not yet finished developing their personalities and identity. Here’s the abstract:

Hässler, Glazier & Olson (2022) published “Consistency of Gender Identity and Preferences Across Time: An exploration among cisgender and transgender children” in Developmental Psychology. There is considerable discussion about the stability of children who identify as transgender. This study speaks to that question. Here’s the abstract:

Carone, Gartrell, Rothblum, Koh & Bos (2022) published “Helicopter Parenting, Emotional Avoidant Coping, Mental Health, and Homophobic Stigmatization Among Emerging Adult Offspring of Lesbian Parents” in Journal of Family Psychology. I was interested in this study because helicopter parenting has been studied in younger children but I had not seen research on young adults with lesbian parents. Here’s the abstract:

As more people reach their later years, we can expect more to want assessment related to cognitive decline. Milanovic et al. (2022) published “Self- Versus Informant-Report of Cognitive Decline in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Concordance with cognitive and functional performance” in Neuropsychology. I like the premise of this work in that asking clients or someone else about cognitive decline may yield different results.

Several recent studies focus on adverse impacts of the pandemic on particular subpopulations. In the first, Mitchell, Banyard, Ybarra & Dunsiger (2022) published “Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Youth with a History of Exposure to Self-directed Violence” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

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.

Di Bianca & Mahalik (2022) published “A Relational-Cultural Framework for Promoting Healthy Masculinities” in American Psychologist. I have written before about traditional masculinity ideology and resistance to psychotherapy. This work supports and extends that study. Here’s the abstract:

Proudfoot & Kay (2022) published “Communal Expectations Conflict with Autonomy Motives: The western drive for autonomy shapes women’s negative responses to positive gender stereotypes” in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Howard & Cheavens (2022) published “Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in the Context of Social Networks: A focus on borderline personality disorder” in Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. Here’s the abstract:

Clobert, Sasaki, Hwang & Tsai (2022) published “Valuing High Arousal Negative States Increases Negative Responses Toward Outgroups Across Cultures” in Emotion.

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:

Gallagher, Moreland, Watters & Yalch (2022) published “Relative Effects of Childhood Trauma, Intimate Partner Violence, and Other Traumatic Life Events on Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms” in Traumatology. Here’s the abstract:

Andersen, Kiverstein, Miller & Roepstorff (2022) published “Play in Predictive Minds: A cognitive theory of play” in Psychological Review.

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:

van Dijk, van der Valk, Deković & Branje (2022) published “Triangulation and Child Adjustment After Parental Divorce: Underlying mechanisms and risk factors” in Journal of Family Psychology.