Week 1: Prenatal Influences, Biological Foundations, and Early Language Development
Letourneau, N., Dewey, D., Kaplan, B. J., Ntanda, H., Novick, J., Thomas, J. C., ... & APrON Study Team. (2019). Intergenerational transmission of adverse childhood experiences via maternal depression and anxiety and moderation by child sex. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 10(1), 88-99. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2040174418000648
Barry, C. T., Kim, H., & Halterm B. (2023). J. Developmental psychopathology. In L. Matson (ed.), Handbook of Clinical Child Psychology, Autism and Child Psychopathology Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24926-6_2
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Burris, H. H., Lorch, S. A., Kirpalani, H., Pursley, D. W. M., Elovitz, M. A., & Clougherty, J. E. (2019). Racial disparities in preterm birth in USA: A biosensor of physical and social environmental exposures. Archives of Disease in Childhood,10, 931. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2018-316486
Morris, A. J., Filippetti, M. L., & Rigato, S. (2022). The impact of parents’ smartphone use on language development in young children. Child Development Perspectives, 16(2), 103-109. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12449
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. (2020). Connecting the Brain to the Rest of the Body: Early Childhood Development and Lifelong Health are Deeply Intertwined: Working Paper No.15. https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/connecting-the-brain-to-the-rest-of-the-body-early-childhood-development-and-lifelong-health-are-deeply-intertwined/
Week 2: Cognitive/Language Development
Morris, A. J., Filippetti, M. L., & Rigato, S. (2022). The impact of parents’ smartphone use on language development in young children. Child Development Perspectives, 16(2), 103- 109. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12449
Masek, L. R., et al., (2021). Beyond counting words: A paradigm shift for the study of language acquisition. Child Development Perspectives, 15, 274-280. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12425
Claro, S., Paunesku, D., & Dweck, C.(2016). Growth mindset tempers the effects of poverty on academic achievement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113(31), 8864-8868.
Week 3: Introduction to Socio-Emotional Development
Geeraerts, S. B., Backer, P. M., & Stifter, C. A. (2020). It takes two: Infants’ moderate negative reactivity and maternal sensitivity predict self-regulation in the preschool years. Developmental Psychology, 56(5), 869–879. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000921
Robson, D. A., Allen, M. S., & Howard, S. J. (2020). Self-regulation in childhood as a predictor of future outcomes: meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 146(4), 324-354. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000227
Week 4: Temperament
Niditch, L. A., & Varela, R. E. (2018). A longitudinal study of inhibited temperament, effortful control, gender, and anxiety in early childhood. Child & Youth Care Forum, 47(4), 463-479. https://link-springer-com.ezproxylocal.library.nova.edu/article/10.1007/s10566-018-9447-0
Davies, P. T., Coe, J. L., Hentges, R. F., Sturge-Apple, M. L., & Ripple, M. Y. (2020). Temperamental emotionality attributes as antecedents of children's social information processing. Child Development, 91 (2), 508-526.
Hong, R. Y., Yeung, W.-J. J., Ding, X. P., & Chan, K. M. Y. (2024). The influence of socio-economic status on child temperament and psychological symptom profiles. British Journal of Psychology, 115(3), 538–551. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12701
Week 5: Attachment; Intro to Trauma & Resilience
Fernandes, C., Monteiro, L., Santos, A. J., Fernandes, M., Antunes, M., Vaughn, B. E., & Veríssimo, M. (2020). Early father-child and mother-child attachment relationships: Contributions to preschoolers’ social competence. Attachment & Human Development,22(6), 687-704. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2019.1692045
McLaughlin, K. A., Colich, N. L., Rodman, A. M., & Weissman, D. G. (2020). Mechanisms linking childhood trauma exposure and psychopathology: a transdiagnostic model of risk and resilience. BMC Medicine, 18(1), 96. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01561-6
Masten, A. S. (2021). Resilience in developmental systems: Principles, pathways, and protective processes in research and practice. In M. Ungar (Ed.), Multisystemic resilience: Adaptation and transformation in contexts of change (pp. 113). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190095888.003.0007
Week 6: Aggression & Antisocial Behavior
Bushman, B. J., Newman, K., Calvert, S. L., Downey, G., Dredze, M., Gottfredson, M., Jablonski, N. G., Masten, A. S., Morrill, C., Neill, D. B., Romer, D., & Webster, D. W. (2016). Youth violence: What we know and what we need to know. American Psychologist, 71(1), 17. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039687
Swit, C. S., Harty, S. C., & Pascoe, S. (2024). Relational and physical aggression in preschool‐age children: Associations with teacher, parent, sibling, and peer relationship quality. Aggressive Behavior, 50(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.22115
Moffitt, T.E. (2018). Male antisocial behaviour in adolescence and beyond. Nature Human Behavior, 3, 177-186.
Week 7: Parenting Styles & Practices & Family Socialization
White, R. M. B., Pasco, M. C., Gonzales, N. A., Knight, G. P., & Burleson, E. (2019). U.S. Mexican parents’ use of harsh parenting in the context of neighborhood danger. Journal of Family Psychology, 33(1), 77–87. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000447
Perez-Brena et al., (2024). Hasta la raiz: Cultivating racia-ethnic socialization in Latine Families. Child Development Perspectives, 18, 88-96.
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. (2023). Pace Matters: The Environment we Create Shapes the Foundations of Healthy Development. Working Paper No.16. https://developingchild.harvard.edu/place-matters-the-environment-we-create-shapes-the-foundations-of-healthy-development/
Wittlin, N. M., Kuper, L. E., & Olson, K. R. (2023). Mental health of transgender and gender diverse youth. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 19(1), 207-232. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-072220-020326
Week 8: Extrafamilial Socialization: Peers, School, and Media
Sala, A. Porcaro, L., & Gomez, E., (2024). Social media use and adolescents' mental health and well-being: An umbrella review. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 14, May. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2024.100404
Benish-Weisman, M. (2024). "Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are:" The contribution of peers to adolescents' values. Child Development Perspectives, 18, 182-189, https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12510
Social Media and Youth Mental Health: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory [Internet]. Office of the Surgeon General, Washington (DC): US Department of Health and Human Services (2023)