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.
Focus Area: Child & Youth Well-Being & Resilience
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.
Parental emotion socialization in clinically depressed adolescents: Accepting, dampening and enhancing positive affect
In this study, Dr. Lynn Katz and colleagues compared parental socialization of adolescent positive affect in families of depressed and healthy adolescents.
Parenting mediates the effects of income and cumulative risk on the development of effortful control
In this study, Dr. Liliana Lengua tested the hypothesis that the effects of income and cumulative risk on the development of effortful control during preschool would be mediated by parenting.
Early Adversity and the Neurobehavioral Development of Children, Part 2
Dr. Phil Fisher, from the University of Oregon, builds on Dr. Lengua’s video to expand on how adversity impacts child development and strategies for promoting resilience.
Policy Brief: Advances in Social Emotional Learning: Current understanding, research and practice
This brief is a result of a CCFW Research to Real World Forum. After more than 30 years of research on social emotional learning (SEL) in classrooms, scientists and practitioners, recognizing that social emotional learning is…