On today's episode, Kennedy Ryan, SISP Community Engagement volunteer, hosts Helen Thai (MSc), a PhD candidate at McGill University. They discuss her randomized-controlled trial on social media use and weight and appearance esteem in youth with emotional distress. Helen shares her research-based insights on the mechanisms which link social media and mental health, the role of mental health issue predispositions on vulnerability to social media's downsides, as well as protective and risk factors for social media use. Further, they explore the relationship between the effects of social media and age and gender. To close, Helen explains how adults can model environmental modifications by making conscious efforts to reduce the centrality of social media to our daily lives, promote resilience to adapt to our current reality, and consider the function of social media use and find healthy replacements to satisfy those needs. To learn more about this publication, click the link below: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/ppm-ppm0000460.pdf
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Welcome back to another episode of Let’s Talk: Youth Psychology, hosted by Community Engagement Chair and Host of Let's Talk: Youth Psychology podcast, Jamie Kreidstein (B.A.). Dr. Maureen Zalewski is the director of Child Behavior Health Training at the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health at the University of Oregon. She specializes in Child Emotion Regulation and Parent Mental Health Disorders, and is formally trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Dr. Yoel Everett is a clinical psychologist who completed his doctorate at the University of Oregon and his clinical internship at Brown University. His clinical research focuses on treatment development for parents who struggle with emotion dysregulation. 

In this conversation, we discuss the principles of DBT, rationale for dual generation approaches, the role of parental diagnoses in intervention, intergenerational transmission of mental health, parent and emotion coaching, and rate of growth in self-regulation as a function of maternal mental health, and more. Thank you for listening, please enjoy. 

In this episode, Community Engagement Chair and Host of Let’s Talk: Youth Psychology, Jamie Kreidstein, B.A., discusses the developmental function of extracurricular activities and out-of-school programs with Dr. Andrea Ettekal. Dr. Ettekal is an Associate Professor in Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University. She earned her Ph.D. in Family and Human Development from Arizona State University and completed a postdoc in the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts University. Her research is on positive youth development (PYD) through out-of-school time (OST) programs.

Jamie and Dr. Ettekal explore cultural differences in knowledge and desire to participate in programs, the relationship between the quality and rate of participation with socioeconomic status, the 'overscheduling' hypothesis, the importance of challenge during the sampling years of activities, parental involvement in youth's programs, the role of social-emotional learning in programs and education overall,  and more. Thank you for listening, we hope you enjoy! 

SISP is proud to bring you the second episode of the 2024-2025 academic year. In this episode, Sam Abemayor and Dr. Jennifer Cooper discuss the true meaning of social justice in school psychology as an active process with which teachers, researchers and clinicians are in the beginning stages of practicing and recognizing the importance of. They discuss the role of implicit biases in discussing and conceptualizing social justice matters. Dr. Cooper explains that in order to reflect on and begin prioritizing social justice in research and practice, School Psychologists and clinicians in general must look inward to recognize their own limitations and biases to then employ cultural humility, and advocate for integration of social justice and anti-racism training.