Today, I address two studies related to attachment. First, Snyder, Luchner & Tantleff-Dunn (2023) published “Adverse Childhood Experiences and Insecure Attachment: The indirect effects of dissociation and emotion regulation difficulties” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement:

Difficulties with dissociation and emotion regulation are well-documented reactions to early adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

Trach, Garandeau & Malamut (2023) published “Peer Victimization and Empathy for Victims of Bullying: A test of bidirectional associations in childhood and adolescence” in Child Development. I’ve previously cited work by Trach but was drawn to this work because of its premise. Here’s the edited abstract and article:

O'Gorman et al. (2023) published “Childhood Sexual Abuse in Boys and Men: The case for gender-sensitive interventions” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement with some information in bold:

We conducted a narrative review of papers pertaining to boys and men exposed to childhood sexual abuse. Implications of this literature for treatment were critically appraised.

This post comes from a story originally on NPR’s Morning Edition. In late June 2023, Six Things Psychologists Are Talking About posted Miotke’s “Anti-dopamine parenting can curb a kid’s craving for screens or sweets.” Here’s the highly edited transcript with some bold in the tips section:

Back when my daughter was a toddler, I would make a joke about my phone: "It's a drug for her," I'd say to my husband. "You can't even show it to her without causing a tantrum." She had the same reaction to cupcakes and ice cream at birthday parties.

Here, I present two recent articles focusing on the importance of language in preschoolers. First, Perry, Kucker, Hurst & Samuelson (2022) published “Late Bloomer or Language Disorder? Differences in toddler vocabulary composition associated with long-term language outcomes” in Child Development. Here’s the slightly edited abstract and highlights

In a previous post, I discussed Ackerman’s (2023) “Intelligence . . . Moving Beyond the Lowest Common Denominator” published in American Psychologist. Here’s another response to his article. Sternberg (2023) published “Intelligence is not the ‘entire repertoire of knowledge’, but rather the repertoire of adaptive knowledge: Commentary on Ackerman (2023).” in American Psychologist. Here’s the edited abstract and article:

Here, I present two studies related to children’s learning and one more on autnomy. Park et al. (2023) published “Parental Intrusive Homework Support and Math Achievement: Does the child’s mindset matter?” in Developmental Psychology. Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement with some information in bold:

Eisenstadt (2023) published “Survey of brain cell junctions shows striking similarities between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder” through the Broad Institute at MIT. Here’s the article with some information in bold:

I am very interested in ways to diagnose and help children with autistic traits as early as possible. Van Trigt, Colonnesi, Brummelman, Jorgenson, & Nikolic (2023) published “Autistic Traits and Self-conscious Emotions in Early Childhood” in Child Development. Here’s the highly edited article:

Here, I present two studies related to diagnosing and treating PTSD. First, Rubin et al. (2023) published, “Low Reliability When Determining Criterion A for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder from Self-report Descriptions of Traumatic Events: The need for transparent methods” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement:

The Harvard Gazette (May 2, 2023) published “Poverty Hurts Children’s Brain Development but Social Safety Net May Help” Here’s the article with some information in bold:

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

This is a fascinating study of children with ADHD. Roberts, Alderson & Bullard (2023) published “Phonological Working Memory in Children with and Without ADHD: A systematic evaluation of recall errors” in Neuropsychology. Here are the edited abstract and impact statements:

Today, we’re looking at two studies of emotion processing in PTSD. First, Zhan, Zhang, Gong & Geng (2023) published “Clinical Correlates of Irritability, Anger, Hostility, and Aggression in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. The edited abstract and impact statement are as follows:

I find prenatal research intriguing and have written before about research on its effects. 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.

These three studies of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) were very helpful to me. First, Aleva et al. (2023) published “Emotion Dysregulation in Young People with Borderline Personality Disorder: One pattern or distinct subgroups? Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. Here’s the abstract with some information in bold:

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:

These two studies both speak to emotional health as people age. First, Charles, Rush, Piazza, Cerino, Mogle & Almeida (2023) published “Growing Old and Being Old: Emotional well-being across adulthood” in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Here’s the abstract with some information in 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.

After two long posts, I am presenting some short ones. Fosco, Weymouth & Feinberg (2023) published “Interparental Conflict, Family Climate, and Threat Appraisals: Early adolescent exposure and young adult psychopathology risk” in Journal of Family Psychology. Here’s the abstract with some information in bold: