Here, I want to present four recent studies related to ADHD. The first, presented by Six Things Psychologists Are Talking About (2022) addresses “ADHD Medication Effects.” Here’s the abstract:

Here, I summarize four articles related to understanding those different from the self. The first article, which is available in full text, has the longest summary: Scott, Ash, Immel, Liebeck, Devine & Shutts (2022) published “Engaging White Parents to Address Their White Children's Racial Biases in the Black-White Context” in Child Development. Here’s the edited article:

While we often ask about pregnancy and delivery in social histories, these studies suggest important elements of maternal-infant relationships that can have long-term impacts. Ruyak, Boursaw & Carcari Stone (2022) published “The Social Determinants of Perinatal Maternal Distress” in Journal of Rural Mental Health. Here’s an edited abstract:

Here, I present four studies that focus on measurement of externalizing symptoms, dissociative identity disorder (DID), personality, and dementia. I don’t often address measurement, but it’s obviously critical to those who test individuals. Rivers, Winston-Lindeboom, Ruan-Iu, Atte, Tien & Diamond (2022) published “Validation of a Parent Report on Externalizing Symptoms Scale: A downward extension of the behavioral health screen” in School Psychology. Here’s an edited version of the impact statement and abstract.

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?”

I’m going to do two entries on executive function. Here, I’m going to summarize an article at length. Next time, I will present multiple specific articles. McGuckian et al. (2023) published “Development of Complex Executive Function Over Childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task” in Child Development. Here’s an edited version of their article (for those of you who hate research design and statistics, I have put in bold critical findings):

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:

Here, I present three studies that address interesting racial biases. First, Elenbaas Luken Raz, Ackerman & Kneeskern (2022) published “This kid looks like he has everything”: 3- to 11-year-old children’s concerns for fairness and social preferences when peers differ in social class and race in Child Development. Here’s the abstract:

I am presenting studies of preschool, elementary, and teenage children, as well of one of parents’ attitudes. In the first study, Mou, Zhang & Hyde (2022) published “Directionality in the Interrelations Between Approximate Number, Verbal Number, and Mathematics in Preschool-Aged Children” in Child Development. Here’s the abstract:

Increasingly, COVID research has focused on specific challenges. Here, I present information about four studies of its effects. First, we look at effects of COVID during the early years of the pandemic. First, Delagneau, Twilhaar, Testa, van Veen & Anderson (2022) published “Association Between Prenatal Maternal Anxiety and/or Stress and Offspring's Cognitive Functioning: A meta-analysis” in Child Development. Here are edited parts of the article:

Here, I present two studies of the gut biome. First, Eisenstadt published “How a Mother’s Microbiome Helps Shape Her Baby’s Development” on the Broad Institute (2022) on the Broad Institute website, citing Vatanen, Jabbar et al.

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.

Here, I summarize four recent studies of experiences at school, focusing on teachers, students, diagnostic categories, and race. This is a longer than usual post, but the studies are related in dealing with expectations and biases. First, Chunta & DuPaul (2022) published “Educational Diagnostic Label and Teacher Self-efficacy: Impact on classroom intervention choice” in School Psychology. I’m going to start with the impact statement, then part of the abstract:

First, Flechsenhar, Seitz, Bertsch & Herpertz (2022) published “The Association Between Psychopathology, Childhood Trauma, and Emotion Processing” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. I was drawn to this study because of its mention of transdiagnostic psychopathologies. The idea seems to be that, because the DSM often yields poor diagnostic accuracy, it may be wiser to use core constructs that relate to multiple diagnoses. Here’s the slightly edited abstract:

Here I am going to briefly describe six different articles on mindfulness, with a general one followed by specific research on the therapeutic bond, depression, Black clients, mood and psychosis symptoms in youth, and pain management. The first, distributed by APA in October 2019 is titled “Mindfulness meditation: A research-proven way to reduce stress.”

In January 2023, APA’s Six Things Psychologists Are Talking About addressed research on brain changes related to media use. Here’s part of the summary:

I am presenting three more studies related to the COVID-19 pandemic. First, Howell et al (2022) published “The Role of Uncertainty, Worry, and Control in well-being: Evidence from the COVID-19 outbreak and pandemic in U.S. and China” in Emotion. Here’s the abstract:

I have written about sleep before. Here, I present three studies all relating to effects of sleep problems on adolescents and each using a different methodology. In the first, Hoyniak, Whalen, Hennefield, Tillman, Barch & Luby (2022) published “Early Childhood Sleep Problems Predict Increased Risk for the Later Development of Suicidal Thoughts” in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. They begin by noting that, “Suicidal thoughts and behaviors in youth are an escalating and immediate public health concern.” Here’s more from the abstract:

I have written twice before about research pertaining to Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).. Here, I want to summarize two recent studies on treatment. First, Keefe et al. (2022) published “Reflective Functioning and Its Potential to Moderate the Efficacy of Manualized Psychodynamic Therapies Versus Other Treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder” in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.