PSY 1405 Child & Adolescent Development

Intro / Overview, 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  Request through Interlibrary Loan
• 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/

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
• Erbil, D. G. (2020). A review of flipped classroom and cooperative learning method within the context of Vygotsky theory.  Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1157.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01157  
• 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.

Review of Classic and Contemporary Developmental Theories

• Siegler, R., Saffran, J., Eisenberg, N., & Gershoff, E. (2020). Chapter 4: Theories of cognitive development. In Siegler, R., Saffran, J., Eisenberg, N., & Gershoff, E. How children develop (6th Ed., pp.117-157).  Worth Publishers. On PRINT Reserve at the Alvin Sherman Library Circulation Desk. 
• Siegler, R., Saffran, J., Eisenberg, N., & Gershoff, E. (2020).  Chapter 9: Theories of social development. In Siegler, R., Saffran, J., Eisenberg, N., & Gershoff, E., C. How children develop (6th Ed., pp. 316-352). Worth Publishers. On PRINT Reserve at the Alvin Sherman Library Circulation Desk. 

Introduction to Socio-Emotional Development

• Morgan, B, Kumsta, R, Fearon, P, Moser, D, Skeen, S, Cooper, P, …Tomlinson, M (2017).  Serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) polymorphism and susceptibility to a home-visiting maternal-infant attachment intervention delivered by community health workers in South Africa: Reanalysis of a randomized controlled trial.  PLoS Medicine, 14(2). https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002237
• 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: A meta-analytic review.  Psychological Bulletin, 146(4), 324-354. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000227

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, 46, 463-470. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-018-9447-0
• Ostrov, J. M., et al. (2022) The development of forms and functions of aggression during early childhood: A temperament-based approach. Development and Psychopathology, 1-17

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), 961-11. 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. 113–134). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190095888.003.0007

Aggression & Antisocial Behavior

• Bushman, BJ, Newman, K, Calvert, SL, Downey, G, Dredze, M et al. (2016). Youth violence: What we know and what we need to know.  American Psychologist, 71(1), 17-39  https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039687
• Perry, J. P. & Ostrov, J., M. (2023). Trajectories of physical and relational aggression across early childhood: Relations with peer risk factors.  Aggressive Behavior, 49, 321-332.
• Moffitt, T.E. (2018). Male antisocial behaviour in adolescence and beyond.  Nature Human Behavior, 3, 177-186.
• Allwood, M.A; Bell, D. J., & Horan. J (2011) Posttrauma numbing of fear, detachment, and arousal predict delinquent behaviors in early adolescence. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 40:5, 659-667. Doi: 10.1080/15374416.2011.597081
• Allwood, M. & Bell, D. (2008) A Preliminary Examination of Emotional and Cognitive Mediators in the Relations Between Violence Exposure and Violent Behaviors in Youth. Journal of Community Psychology, 36(8), 989-1007, https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.20277

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. (2020). 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 

Extrafamilial Socialization: Peers, School, and Media

• Vannucci, A., & Ohannessian, C. M. (2019). Social media use subgroups differentially predict psychosocial well-being during early adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48(8), 1469-1493. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/s10964-019-01060-9
• Foster, C.E., et al. (2017).  Connectedness to family, school, peers, and community in socially vulnerable adolescents. Child Youth Services Review, 81, 321-331.
• 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)