Research gap types #research #academia

#New: @CDCgov has released training modules for the Wellness Policy in Action Tool (WPAT)! The WPAT - which utilizes the Rudd Center's WellSAT program - helps schools meet @USDA triennial assessment requirements. #CDCHealthySchools 🔗: https://t.co/NXRiObedUl

Action for Healthy Kids RFP for Development and Testing of a Family-School Partnership Assessment for Child Health and Well-Being

“To support equitable mental health outcomes for youth with diverse body sizes, empirically informed policy needs to address weight-related teasing and bullying” write @LessardLeah & @Sam_E_Lawrence Read more https://t.co/RlbmIZ5Es9 #mentalhealth #policy #bullying

In this Perspective, Earnshaw et al. argue that considering stigma in relation to historical, human development & status course timescales can advance progress in addressing stigma to improve health. https://t.co/jMY1G4RajS @UDStigmaLab @DrRyanJWatson @anniefoxgalalis

What does bullying look like during the pandemic? Does peer victimization "hurt" more when teens attend in-person vs online school? Our new paper w/ @DrAdamHoffman @adehrhardt @FaizunBakth is now available open access in Development & Psychopathology: https://t.co/qdMnbvAY65

33% of adolescents in our community sample reported experiencing weight-based cybervictimization, with elevated rates among those with overweight (45%) and obesity (60%).

Developmental changes in the frequency and functions of school-related communication with friends and family across high school: Effects on college enrollment.

Talking about schoolwork and educational planning with friends more frequently across high school increases teens' likelihood of college enrollment. Our findings from the #UCLASchoolDiversityProject in @APA_Journals ' Developmental Psychology.

In their 2019 @EdPsychJournal piece, Jaana Juvonen, @LessardLeah, @ritika_rastogi, @hannah_schacter, Danielle Sayre Smith “provide a critical analysis of barriers to social inclusion and integration in schools.”

It's National #BullyingPrevention Month. Our NEW podcast episode features @LessardLeah's research on the role popular peers may play in reducing weight-based bullying in schools. https://t.co/OHv2wVAbmm @UConnRuddCenter @UConnHDFS #NPBM2021

"Is #Facebook Promoting Self-Stigma?" https://t.co/Vv17PX5Zvv by @ConscienHealth cc @UConnRuddCenter #WeightBias @LessardLeah & Puhl: "...increased exposure to weight stigmatizing social media content is likely to have implications for adolescents’ health and wellbeing..."

How have adolescents’ feelings about their bodies and weight-related social influences changed during #COVID19? @LessardLeah and #RebeccaPuhl explore pandemic-related changes in body dissatisfaction and #WeightStigma from peers, parents & social media.

So pleased to have our systematic review on peer victimization, friendship, and adolescent health included in this special issue! A team effort with @LessardLeah @skippykip @FaizunBakth @adehrhardt and Janelle Uganski. Full-text link below 🔗

Adolescents with greater pre-COVID friend support felt less depressed and anxious during COVID-19, regardless of time spent with friends or COVID-19 related stress. "Friends may thus protect against developing internalizing symptoms in times of crisis." https://t.co/XkQOHOSGPG

The Journal of Adolescence is searching for two Assistant Editors. JoA is a top developmental journal (5 year citation 4.32), moving to Wiley in 2022. It is unique in that profits from the journal support professionals in adolescent mental health. Share! https://t.co/MuPxq1NvSj

Our new study links school district antibullying policies to educators' weight bias. We find evidence of lower bias when policies specifically reference "weight" as a characteristic that places youth at risk for bullying. @ASHAnews @UConnRuddCenter

🎊 My first pre-grad study @ucdavis is finally out in Cognitive Psychology! Led by Hannah Kramer we show across 3 studies that the dichotomizing heuristic takes over social judgments: but it fails if judgments are improbable or groups aren’t initially treated as distinct.

Teens across diverse sexual & gender identities who feel safer at school engage in fewer unhealthy weight control and disordered eating behaviors. Our latest findings via @ASHAnews @DrRyanJWatson @EthanWang98 https://t.co/IbrXCoCCtT

Going back to school after a year of virtual learning can be challenging. Rudd fellow @LessardLeah's study found that during the pandemic, adolescents reported academics & work habits to be among their biggest challenges, ahead of mental & physical health. https://t.co/FMNOXi8TSJ