Take a look at this impactful paper arguing for a new approach to mental health that acknowledges
#adolescence
as a critical developmental period for early identification and treatment of emerging mental disorders.
SRA is thrilled to announce that the
#BiennialMeeting
opening keynote speaker is Ruby Bridges!
@RubyBridges
is a highly renowned and celebrated individual, and we cannot wait for this one-of-a-kind keynote address!
Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model adapted for Black youth development and attachment processes in context (Stern et al., 2021). thank you for letting me draw this
@JessAStern
!
SRA condemns the harmful and abusive interpretation of existing Texas state law criminalizing the widely accepted standard of care for transgender youth. We reiterate our support for the rights of transgender and gender diverse youth to access gender affirming medical care. 1/4
Greg Abbot has officially directed Family and Protective Services to begin investigating all trans children in Texas and prosecuting their parents as child abusers.
He has also instructed all teachers, doctors, and caregivers to begin reporting any trans students they see.
Tis the season of award, grant, & fellowship news!! We are SO proud of everyone whose dreams are coming true right now 🎉
We are EQUALLY proud of individuals who were not successful this year.
You are important, worthy, and intelligent. Do not let this setback dim your light.
Talking to kids about race does NOT make them biased against people of another race. Even if these conversations are uncomfortable, they have been shown to reduce implicit bias in both the children and adults involved in the conversations. -
@sylviapperry
By including youth advisors in the research process, researchers offer opportunities to build leadership skills and empower
#teens
to contribute to solutions that impact them most.
Black youth face typical teen stressors and racialized stressors. Positive racial socialization messages help them cope. EXCELLENT work from
@rianaelyse
!
With the cancelation of our meeting, we are working on ways to promote our members' work virtually. If you are comfortable sharing, please tag us with links to your work, or posters you were going to present, and we will
#RT
!
#SRA2020
🚨GOOD NEWS!!🚨
The deadline for proposals to be submitted for the SRA-2024 Annual Meeting in Chicago has been EXTENDED to October 2!
Information about submissions and the links to submit your proposals ⬇️
The Journal of Research on Adolescence and Child Development Journal (SRCD) Announce Upcoming Special Sections on Racial Diversity, Equity, Inclusion. Click here for submission instructions
Looking for some hands-on experience in
#grant
reviewing? Check out the
@NIH
Early Career Reviewer program! This is a wonderful way for early career researchers to strengthen their own grant writing by seeing the review process first-hand.
#GoodsOnGrants
It may feel like
#adolescents
become disinterested in family time and relationships, but the
#TruthAboutTeens
is that positive family relationships are associated with increased adolescent life satisfaction!
Congratulations to all of our SRA Annual Meeting award recipients! We would also like to thank everyone who helped make this event a great success! Stay tuned for more!
#SRACHICAGO2024
It's hard to keep up with all of the amazing work coming out of adolescence research. So, SRA is launching
#MustReadMonday
!
Every Monday we will post new articles that will knock your socks off, and older articles that changed the game. So, what's your
#MustReadMonday
pick?
Huge thanks to all the presenters, exhibitors, and attendees who made the 2024 SRA Annual Meeting a success! Stay tuned for updates on the next SRA Meeting in 2026!
#SRACHICAGO2024
🚨
#SRAdolescence
believes in the power of teamwork. We are kicking off 2023 with a new
#CultivateCollaboration
Initiative. Each week, we will feature a need from someone in the
#SRA
community to build connections that strengthen work supporting
#adolescents
! 💪 Spread the word!
#Adolescence
is a period of development associated with increased risk-taking, but these risks can be highly adaptive! Unpack this and other commonly held stereotypes about
#adolescents
in
@EvaTelzer
and colleagues' new manuscript!
#TruthAboutTeens
We are excited to announce that Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer will give the
#SRA2024
Roberta Grodberg Simmons Prize Lecture on her seminal work focused on resiliency, identity, and competence formation processes for diverse humans—particularly African American youth.
🚨New
#adolescent
mental health pub!
"Worldwide implementation of arts- and culture-based strategies to address youth mental health will provide critical resources to support the health, well-being and flourishing of countless youth across the globe."
We are back to our
#TruthAboutTeens
series! Should adults avoid talking to children about race? Research says no! In fact, studies suggest that White parents talking to children about race can decrease youth anti-Black bias!
SRA firmly supports the rights of transgender and gender diverse youth to access gender-affirming medical care and full participation in sporting activities. We also ask SRA members to join us in supporting this important work. Learn more here:
Meet the Scientist Social provides a forum for students to interact with senior scholars who have central roles in the field of adolescent development and the Society. Here's one of our featured outstanding scientists:
Meet the Scientist Social provides a forum for students to interact with senior scholars who have central roles in the field of adolescent development and the Society. Here's one of our featured outstanding scientists:
Got really tired of seeing Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model illustrated only w/ white boys. So we made a new (prettier) version centering Black girls.
Please RT & share in your psych classes!
Full article on
#attachment
&
#antiracism
is open access:
The Opening Reception and Poster Session at the 2024 SRA Annual Meeting in Chicago was well attended last night! We were thrilled to see so many of our members come out to support each other.
Who else is psyched for the 2022 SRA
#BiennialMeeting
? We know there's a LOT to see during the meeting, so, to help everyone make the best use of their time, the SRA team put together a series of tracks within six topic areas for attendees to check out!
See you all in
#NOLA
😎
This new impactful work interrogates
#adolescent
stereotypes and "calls for more attention to changing negative stereotypes of
#adolescence
at the policy and societal levels."
SRA's next webinar on Tuesday, October 20, 10:00-11:00am ET, "Thinking Long-term about Adolescents and the COVID-19 Pandemic" focuses on understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth and long-term implications on development. Register here:
Developing an ethnic identity serves as an important source of resilience for minority teenagers living in the US. Find out what are the unique aspects of ethnic identity development among Latino adolescents.
#ethnicidentity
#latino
#identity
🚨New article!🚨
"Results indicate that messages about cultural pride and cultural values are indeed related to the use of more active coping strategies, which in turn, are related to fewer internalizing symptoms."
Breaking the WEIRD Mold: Dive into these six articles exploring justice, pro-sociality, forgiveness, gratitude, self-disclosure, subjective well-being and more in Latin America.
#DevelopmentalScience
#LatinAmerica
Read here:
We applaud Patti Valkenburg for your receipt of the 2022 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Contribution Award for "Project Adolescents, Well-being & Social Media (AWeSome)". Congratulations!
California will become the first state in the U.S. to require public high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 am, falling in line with research that suggests later
#school
start times would help ensure
#teens
get an adequate amount of
#sleep
.
@StartSchoolL8r
Teens in the U.S. are chronically sleep-deprived, in part because most schools start too early. This summer, California will become the first state in the nation to require later start times,
@lewislisal
writes.
SAVE THE DATE! SRA Biennial Meeting on March 3-5, 2022, themed Redefining Possibilities and Amplifying Marginalized Voices. The meeting will be held in New Orleans, LA and will also include a virtual component for those not able to participate in person.
📢Decisions on accepted talks and posters for the 2023
@SRA
annual conference will be announced in mid-late December. This year's abstract submissions were exceptional and we can't wait to share the exciting news!
Andrew Nalani is the 2022 winner of the Social Policy Article Publication Award for “Social Science-Based Pathways to Reduce Social Inequality in Youth Outcomes and Opportunities at Scale”. Congratulations!
This
#MustReadMonday
, we sat down with
@ARivens
to discuss her new article on Black
#adolescents
' intimate
#disclosure
to non-parental adult relatives. Check out her responses to some of our questions, including a link to the full research article:
Considering how adolescents’ meaning-making about the role of ethnicity and race in their lives supports positive development,
#SRAVirtual
Keynote
@DrRivasDrake
argued that we should draw inspiration from the youth to work toward racial justice in our spheres of influence.
🎉 Have You Heard? 🎉
NRSA budgets can now include up to $2500 in childcare support
Supporting childcare costs is an excellent step in moving the field towards more equitable practices
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Availability of Administrative Supplements for Childcare Costs for Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellows
First up from the Publications Committee on
#FacesOfSRA
: Dr. Adam Hoffman!
@DrAdamHoffman
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and PI of the PRIDE Lab at
@Cornell
. 1/4
Check out the JRA Special Issue "Black Lives Matter! Systems of Oppression Affecting Black Youth." The issue uses diverse methods to examine how multiple systems of oppression at different levels affect Black youth.
Up next, we are introducing Dr. Nicole Campione-Barr!
@CampioneBarr
is a Professor of Psychological Sciences at
@Mizzou
. She has served on the SRA Media & Communications Committee since 2020 and is particularly interested in getting more information out to the general public 1/5
What factors contribute to queer and transgender youth's identity? A recent study utilized qualitative and daily diary methods to explore queer and transgender youth's joy. 😊❤️
Read more about it:
Call for papers for a Special Section of JRA: Towards a decolonial developmental science: Exploring adolescent development in communities from the Majority World. Abstracts are due November 15, and Invited manuscripts are due March 30.
Learn more:
Developmental science has the
#power
to inform policies that impact
#adolescents
. Check out this
@APA
article to learn how researchers and policymakers collaborate to rethink how support is provided to
#adoelscents
in the juvenile justice system! 👇
We are thrilled to highlight this symposium with the excellent
@HeyArtez
@donte_bernard
&
@DrNeblett
:
Examining the Influence of Culturally-Specific Risk & Protective Factors on the Psychological Well-Being of Black Late Adolescents
More info:
A 🧵
Register for SRA's free & public September webinar: "This didn’t come from nowhere”: Centering youth voices in anti-racist activism on Tuesday, September 29 at 7:00-8:30pm ET, brought to you by SRA's Anti-racism Task Force.
A recently published study found that "reducing social media use yielded significant improvements in appearance and weight esteem in distressed
#youth
with heavy social media use." Learn more from
@APA
below!
BLACK TEENS!!! Let's talk! Join
@SCTJones
@black_covid
@rianaelyse
for the "Pandemic and Protests" Townhall for black youth in the age of COVID-19, Friday, June 26, 3-4:30 pm EST. Register here: !
Call for Submissions to the SRA 2020 Biennial Meeting! The Society for Research on Adolescence invites empirical, theoretical, historical, and methodological submissions from all disciplines related to adolescence. Submit here:
Do you research teens over time? Great
#JRA
article from
@sarahbealphd
on how to change your measures over time for both child and parent-report of depressive symptoms.
🎉Happy Match Day to all of our clinical psychology friends! 🎉
Congratulations on making it this far, and taking another big step towards your goals!
Regardless of where you matched & what your matching process looks like, we are so proud of you!
The SRA 2024 Annual Meeting will be held at the Hilton Chicago in Chicago, IL, on April 18-20th. For more information visit our Annual Meeting Portal on our website:
#SRA24
Investing in quality mentoring relationships can contribute to success in graduate programs, especially for students of color.
#GraduateSchool
#Mentoring
#Academia
Make sure to save the date for the SRA 2023 Annual Meeting, April 13-15. Featuring a great hotel, loads of fun, and amazing educational content, we can't wait to see you all in sunny San Diego, California!
#SRA2023
Due to the ever-changing situation with the Coronavirus (COVID-19), the SRA Executive Council has made the very difficult decision to cancel the Biennial Meeting in San Diego (March 19-21). SRA will refund all registration costs to those who registered.
#SRA2022
submissions are approaching! Symposia can be hard to coordinate, so want to create a space where you can connect with others in your field to help with the process. Comment here with your topic area to network with colleagues who may be interested in joining your group!
"By 2050 cities will be home to 70% of the world’s children." Learn more about how urban development can account for and support
#adolescent
mental health in this new article published in
@Nature
.
Recent research suggests that school connectedness and family support/monitoring can be protective for gender diverse
#adolescents
' mental health.
Learn more from this
#OpenAccess
article!
@Nature
@MKHolt10
A timely
#TruthAboutTeens
! Can teens think critically about
#voting
rights? They sure can! Research shows that teens use more complex justifications for changing the voting age than adults. ⚖️
@bjoosterhoff
We are excited for Meeta Banerjee, Mona Amer, and Jocelyn Smith Lee to discuss "Sociopolitical Action and Community Engagement" in the
#SRA
2022
#BiennialMeeting
#InvitedProgram
. Check out our invited program page to find out more!
Since last weekend was completely normal and not newsworthy in any way (jk! 😝) We hope we can spice up your feed with our amazing
#MustReadMonday
pick!
We’re loving this paper by Adriana Aldana that’s all about how we measure youth anti-racism
The September Special JRA edition is out now! Pt 2: “Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble”: Dismantling Oppression through Resistance and Activism
Read here:
We are deeply saddened by the passing of John Schulenberg, Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research and Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan, on February 9, 2023.
#MustReadMonday
We asked Dr Steinberg: What has been most surprising to you in the field of adolescence?
"The sheer increase in the number of papers and entire journals that are devoted to adolescence. When SRA had its first meeting in 1986 the attendance was just 350 people"
We enjoyed gathering with the
#SRA
community to share and learn about
#adolescent
development. We hope everyone made it home safely and enjoyed their time at
#SRA2023
!
Have any feedback? Tell us about your conference experience using the survey attendees received via email!
Today is
#TransDayOfRemembrance
❤️💙🤍
We are proud to stand with all members of the trans community. We honour the memory of transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence
Today, we are highlighting materials and resources for youth & families
Check out our interview w/ Dr. Miriam Schwarzenthal + co-authors on their recent paper, which discusses classroom climate, perceived societal Islamophobia, & critical action among adolescents 🔖
Blog:
Full article: ttps://bit.ly/3srqi2v
#MustReadMonday
From the SRA M&C Committee, meet Dr.
@stbbarnes
! Dr. Butler-Barnes' expertise and scholarly work focuses on Black children and youth, risk and resilience, academic achievement, and wellbeing.
To learn more about her research, visit:
#FacesOfSRA
Although we are NOT canceling our upcoming meeting, we understand the worries about
#COVID
ー19. Please see our official statement regarding
#SRA2020
and the coronavirus.