In this study, Drs. Lengua and Thompson examined growth in effortful control in relation to income, cumulative risk, and adjustment in 306 preschool-age children from families representing a range of income.
Focus Area: Child & Youth Well-Being & Resilience
Emotion regulation, internalizing symptoms and somatic complaints in pediatric survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia
In this study, Dr. Lynn Katz and colleagues aimed to examine whether respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA)—a physiological index of children’s emotion regulation—moderates the relation between cancer diagnosis and internalizing problems in children.
Maternal directiveness in childhood survivors of acute lympohoblastic leukemia
In this study, Dr. Lynn Katz tested whether cancer survivorship moderates the relation between maternal directiveness—one aspect of intrusiveness—and children’s internalizing problems.
Mindful Parenting
Drs. Liliana Lengua and Suzanne Kerns, University of Denver, offer tips on how to bring mindfulness into your everyday interactions with your child.
Policy Brief: Advances in Social Emotional Learning and Its Application in Policy and Practice in K-12 Education
This brief is a result of a CCFW Research to Real World Forum. It addresses the need for practitioners, administrators, and policy makers to have a state-of-the-art understanding of SEL skills that can be translated into practice and policy across a variety of settings spanning early childhood through adolescence.
The Development of Thinking About People: From Behavior to Brain
Dr. Jessica Sommerville investigates the development of thinking about people from infancy through the school years using both behavioral and brain-based methods.