Dr. Leah Lessard retweetledi
Dr. Leah Lessard
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Dr. Leah Lessard
@LessardLeah
Developmental scientist studying social underpinnings of adolescent educational and health disparities | @UConnRuddCenter | @Act4HlthyKids | PhD @UCLA
New York, NY Katılım Ekim 2018
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#New: @CDCgov has released training modules for the Wellness Policy in Action Tool (WPAT)!
The WPAT - which utilizes the Rudd Center's WellSAT program - helps schools meet @USDA triennial assessment requirements.
#CDCHealthySchools
🔗: bit.ly/3wgTlaI
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Action for Healthy Kids RFP for Development and Testing of a Family-School Partnership Assessment for Child Health and Well-Being apadiv15.org/2022/06/17/act…
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“To support equitable mental health outcomes for youth with diverse body sizes, empirically informed policy needs to address weight-related teasing and bullying” write @LessardLeah & @Sam_E_Lawrence
Read more ow.ly/qYQN50Ifput
#mentalhealth #policy #bullying
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In this Perspective, Earnshaw et al. argue that considering stigma in relation to historical, human development & status course timescales can advance progress in addressing stigma to improve health.
go.nature.com/3HQgund
@UDStigmaLab @DrRyanJWatson @anniefoxgalalis
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What does bullying look like during the pandemic? Does peer victimization "hurt" more when teens attend in-person vs online school?
Our new paper w/ @DrAdamHoffman @adehrhardt @FaizunBakth is now available open access in Development & Psychopathology:
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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33% of adolescents in our community sample reported experiencing weight-based cybervictimization, with elevated rates among those with overweight (45%) and obesity (60%).
UConn Rudd Center@UConnRuddCenter
Latest study by Rudd Postdoc @LessardLeah and Rudd Deputy Director Rebecca Puhl finds that weight-based cybervictimization (i.e., electronic forms of weight-based peer victimization) is associated with higher levels of stress, depression, and sleep trouble.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ij…
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Developmental changes in the frequency and functions of school-related communication with friends and family across high school: Effects on college enrollment. psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-19…
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Talking about schoolwork and educational planning with friends more frequently across high school increases teens' likelihood of college enrollment.
Our findings from the #UCLASchoolDiversityProject in @APA_Journals ' Developmental Psychology.
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I'm feeling particularly grateful today following a fun and stimulating defense yesterday afternoon. It's been quite a journey to reach this point and I would not have been able to do it without the help of so many amazing colleagues, friends, and mentors.
Dr. Jennifer Silvers@JASilvers
Congratulations to @C_Shamballa, my first graduate student, on defending his epically superb dissertation! It has been a true privilege to watch João’s graduate career unfold and I and the @sandlabucla literally could not be prouder. Congratulations, Dr. Guassi Moreira! 🎉
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In their 2019 @EdPsychJournal piece, Jaana Juvonen, @LessardLeah, @ritika_rastogi, @hannah_schacter, Danielle Sayre Smith “provide a critical analysis of barriers to social inclusion and integration in schools.” tinyurl.com/4xzzfan6
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It's National #BullyingPrevention Month. Our NEW podcast episode features @LessardLeah's research on the role popular peers may play in reducing weight-based bullying in schools.
ow.ly/oO3C50GhkR6
@UConnRuddCenter @UConnHDFS #NPBM2021
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"Is #Facebook Promoting Self-Stigma?" conscienhealth.org/2021/09/facebo… by @ConscienHealth cc @UConnRuddCenter #WeightBias
@LessardLeah & Puhl: "...increased exposure to weight stigmatizing social media content is likely to have implications for adolescents’ health and wellbeing..."
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How have adolescents’ feelings about their bodies and weight-related social influences changed during #COVID19? @LessardLeah and #RebeccaPuhl explore pandemic-related changes in body dissatisfaction and #WeightStigma from peers, parents & social media. doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy…
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Dreaming of a writing retreat in a cottage in the woods somewhere. Plenty of coffee, hiking, and s’mores. How else am I going to get all this writing done??
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So pleased to have our systematic review on peer victimization, friendship, and adolescent health included in this special issue! A team effort with @LessardLeah @skippykip @FaizunBakth @adehrhardt and Janelle Uganski.
Full-text link below 🔗
Amanda Nickerson@DrAmandaNick
Learn insights on protective factors for bullying! Great work @DrDotEspelage Jun Sung Hong @OstrovJamie @evansstevenw @SimonCHunter @hannah_schacter @profwendycraig @natnoret @HoiShan_Cheung and many other international colleagues #schoolmentalhealth link.springer.com/journal/12310/…
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Adolescents with greater pre-COVID friend support felt less depressed and anxious during COVID-19, regardless of time spent with friends or COVID-19 related stress.
"Friends may thus protect against developing internalizing symptoms in times of crisis."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
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The Journal of Adolescence is searching for two Assistant Editors. JoA is a top developmental journal (5 year citation 4.32), moving to Wiley in 2022. It is unique in that profits from the journal support professionals in adolescent mental health. Share!
nancydarling.org/joa-editor-sea…
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Our new study links school district antibullying policies to educators' weight bias. We find evidence of lower bias when policies specifically reference "weight" as a characteristic that places youth at risk for bullying. @ASHAnews @UConnRuddCenter
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…
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🎊 My first pre-grad study @ucdavis is finally out in Cognitive Psychology! Led by Hannah Kramer we show across 3 studies that the dichotomizing heuristic takes over social judgments: but it fails if judgments are improbable or groups aren’t initially treated as distinct.
Mark Rubin@RubinPsyc
New paper in Cognitive Psychology provides evidence that people use a “dichotomizing heuristic” when judging social groups: “The inference that characteristics belonging to one group do not apply to another group.” Publisher: doi.org/10.1016/j.cogp…
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