Peer victimization is a developmentally salient stressor that elevates adolescents' risk for
anxiety disorders. However, modifiable mechanisms that explain this link and can be …

Background Depression is associated with a reduced sensitivity to rewards and low reward-
related brain function in cortico-striatal circuitry. A separate literature documents elevated …

Objective Nearly 65% of youth experience trauma, and up to one-third of youth with trauma
exposure face profound mental health sequelae. There remains a need to elucidate factors …

Background: Childhood maltreatment has been associated with reduced hippocampal
volume in healthy individuals, whereas social support, a protective factor, has been …

For educators to help children exposed to adverse life experiences, it is necessary to
understand how adversity impacts different mechanisms of learning, emotion, and planning …

Early life adversity impacts on a range of emotional, cognitive, and psychological processes.
A recent theoretical model suggests that at least some of these effects are due to …

Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent across the lifespan, although diagnoses peak early in
adolescence. As a method for inhibiting fear, safety signals have the potential to augment …

Background Weight status has been linked to adverse childhood experiences. Existing
research, however, is limited to unidimensional assessments of cumulative risk and does not …

Psychological interventions for adolescents have shown mixed efficacy, and including
parents in interventions may be an important avenue to improve treatment outcomes …

Childhood and adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors experience poor health
outcomes in adulthood. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) also portend poor health …