I am presenting two articles today, each aimed at reducing bullying, the first focusing on teachers, the second on peers. Cheon, Reeve, Marsh & Jang (2023) published “Cluster Randomized Control Trial to Reduce Peer Victimization: An autonomy-supportive teaching intervention changes the classroom ethos to support defending bystanders” in American Psychologist. Here’s the first abstract with Bold for important findings:

McCurdy & Russell (2023) published “Perceived Parental Social Support and Psychological Control Predict Depressive Symptoms for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, or Questioning Youth in the United States” in Child Development. I have edited both the abstract and the article and added bold for major findings:

Here, I address two recent studies dealing with gender diverse populations. First, Valentine, Smith, Miller, Hadden & Shipherd (2023) published “Considerations and Complexities of Accurate PTSD Assessment Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adults” in Psychological Assessment. Here’s their abstract:

Raimo, d'Onofrio, Gaita, Costanzo & Santangelo (2022) published “Neuropsychological correlates of theory of mind in chronic migraine” in Neuropsychology. I found this study fascinating because chronic migraine is one of the conditions that draws people to therapy as one part of a treatment plan. Here’s the abstract:

Today, I offer two studies of shyness that seem to me to have quite similar implications. First, Bekkhus, McVarnock, Coplan, Ulset & Kraft (2023) published “Developmental Changes in the Structure of Shyness and Internalizing Symptoms from Early to Middle Childhood: A network analysis” in Child Development. Here’s the abstract:

Today, I am presenting two studies of parenting. The first a positive approach and the second focused on predictors of harsh parenting and recommended interventions. First, Resnik, Garbacz, Stormshak & McIntyre (2023) published “Family-centered Prevention to Enhance Proactive Parenting and Parental Self-Efficacy During Early Elementary School” in Journal of Family Psychology. Here’s the abstract:

I am presenting here an edited version of an article that I think is important to anyone dealing with immigrant clients. Eltanamly, Leijten, van Roekel, Mouton, Pluess & Overbeek (2002) published “Strengthening Parental Self-efficacy and Resilience: A within-subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents” in Child Development. It is longer than usual but may be helpful:

Schleider (2023) published “The Fundamental Need for Lived Experience Perspectives in Developing and Evaluating Psychotherapies” in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. I like this approach because it integrates criticism of research on therapies with new tools that can potentially help therapists work more efficiently and successfully. Here’s the abstract with some information in bold:

Here, I present information from a well-designed study of bisexual women. Cavanaugh & Wismar (2023) published “Examining Whether the Impact of Different Types of Interpersonal Violence and Mental Disorders on Attempted Suicide is Greater for Bisexual Women” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Here’s the edited impact statement and abstract with some information in bold:

Harvard Graduate School of Education (2023) presented a webinar through Education Now titled “How Caregivers and Educators Can Support the Mental Well-being of Rural and Indigenous Youth.”

Here, again, I am presenting a second post related to the last one. LaFreniere & Newman (2023) published “Upregulating Positive Emotion in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A randomized controlled trial of the SkillJoy ecological momentary intervention” In Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Lucas (Luc) LaFreniere has a long history of research on anxiety and worry; he specializes in developing and researching ecological momentary interventions for anxiety and worry. I am beginning with the edited authors’ perspective then the abstract with some information in bold:

The two articles I present here relate to well-being. First, Burnette et al. (2022) published “A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Growth Mindset Interventions: For whom, how, and why might such interventions work?” in Psychological Bulletin. Here’s the edited impact statement and abstract with some information in bold:

I am presenting abstracts of two studies related to exhaustion and sleep. In the first, Blanchard, Hoebeke & Heeren (2023) published “Parental Burnout Features and the Family Context: A temporal network approach in mothers” in Journal of Family Psychology. Here’s the abstract with some information in bold:

Ross (2023) published “Making Schools a Welcoming Place for Immigrant Students: How educators can help newcomers in the classroom” in Harvard Graduate School of Education’s (HGSE) Usable Knowledge. I am presenting the article with minimal editing because it is very important and offers helpful links to other resources:

Here, I present two studies, each attempting to better understand what predicts aging well. First, Bergman & Bodner (2022) published “Aging Anxiety in Older Adults: The role of self-esteem and meaning in life” in GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry. Here’s their abstract:

Here, I present two abstracts of research related to reading and inequity. Clemons, Mason & O’Donnell (2023) published “Language and self-regulation: Interrelated sources of disparities in reading achievement and opportunities for reducing inequity” in School Psychology. Here’s the edited impact statement and abstract:

I am going to do two successive posts related to children’s reading. In this first one, Leve et al. (2022) published “The Potential of Children's Rearing Environment to Overcome Genetic Propensity for Low Reading Achievement” in Mind, Brain, and Education. Here’s the edited article:

Hannah Calkins (2022) published The cognitive impact of long COVID: What can psychologists do in the American Psychological Association’s “Six things psychologists are talking about.” I have edited the article because, though we all want COVID to go away, it isn’t cooperating. I found this information very helpful:

Williams, Faber, Nepton & Ching, (2023) published “Racial Justice Allyship Requires Civil Courage: A behavioral prescription for moral growth and change” in American Psychologist. Here’s an edited impact statement and abstract:

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):