Biological Embedding of Caregiving Adversity
The Penn State Child Maltreatment Solutions Network Fall 2024 Conference featured a reception and poster session on the Biological Embedding of Caregiving Adversity. Researchers, students, and faculty across the country were selected to present valuable insights into how caregiving adversity influences biological processes.
We invite you to review these great posters and offer a special shout-out to Madison Kelm, who received Best Student Poster Award.
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Sherille Bosfield, Child Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student Pennsylvania State University
The Association Between Parental Adversity and Hostile Attribution Bias on Children’s Salivary Inflammation (Zaharah Zaidi, Sara Such, and Yo Jackson)
Ryan Chesnut, Ph.D. Assistant Research Professor Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness at Penn State.
Examining Intervention Response to a Novel Child Maltreatment Home Visitation Program in a Military Sample using a Person-Centered Approach (Ryan Chestnut, Kaitlin M. Trexberg, Terri L. Rudy, and Daniel F. Perkins).
Kivilcim Degirmencioglu, Developmental Psychology Doctoral Student, The Pennsylvania State University.
Moderating Effects of Parenting Stress and COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on Relations Between Harsh Discipline and Child Behavior Problems (Kivilcim Degirmencioglu, Jianing Sun, Klaudia I. Kulawska, Fanwen Zhang, Catherine M. Diercks, Erika Lunkenheimer).
Bonny Donzella, Research Associate, University of Minnesota.
Biological Embedding of Inflammation following Early Deprivation (Bonny Donzella, Annika Knutson, Brie M Reid, & Megan R Gunnar).
Emily Dunning, Human Development and Family Studies Doctoral student, The Pennsylvania State University.
The Longitudinal Impact of Early-Life IPV Exposure on Cortisol: Developmental Considerations (Emily Dunning, Lisa Gatzke-Kopp).
Sarah Helstrom, Undergraduate Student, Villanova University.
Parent Adversity, Parenting, and Infant Cortisol Reactivity in Contexts of Family Homelessness (Sarah Helstrom, Janette E. Herbers, Katherine R. Hayes, Jennifer Attah-Gyamfi, Abigail C. Knight, Mallory Garnett, J. J. Cutuli, Benjamin Sach).
Lucia Herrero, Developmental Psychology & Social and Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Student, The Pennsylvania State University.
Always on My Mind: Effects of Adversity and Anxiety on Neural Synchrony in Parent Child Dyads (Lucia Herrero, Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo, Marisa N. Lytle, Kivilcim Degirmencioglu, Susan B. Perlman, Koraly Pérez-Edgar).
Madison R. Kelm, Developmental Psychology Doctoral Student Pennsylvania State
University Maternal Childhood Maltreatment, Prenatal Substance Exposure, and Postnatal Adversity: Implications for Child Autonomic Reactivity and Regulation at Early School-Age (Madison Kelm, Olivia Bell, Pamela Schuetze, and Rina D. Eiden).
Alexa Nordine, Graduate Student, University of Waterloo.
Negative Parenting and Preschooler Executive Function Development: Is RSA Flexibility a Protective or Risk Factor? (Alexa Nordine, Longfeng Li Ph.D. , and Erika Lunkenheimer Ph.D.)
Sohee Park, Developmental Psychology Doctoral Student, The Pennsylvania State University.
The Longitudinal Effects of Harsh Parenting on Multi-Component, Biobehavioral Self-regulation in Children (Sohee Park, Erika Lunkenheimer).
Lee Raby, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology University of Utah
These findings were part of paper that was recently accepted at Developmental Psychobiology:
Speck, B., Kaliush, P. R., Tacana, T., Conradt, E., Crowell, S. E., & Raby, K. L. (2024). Childhood Maltreatment and Electrodermal Reactivity to Stress Among Pregnant Women. Developmental Psychobiology, 66(7), e22553.
Youness Robert-Tahiri, Undergraduate Senior, University of Toronto.
Exploring childhood adversity, childhood aggression, and childhood self-regulation: A mediation analysis Youness (Robert-Tahiri, Melis Yavuz-Müren, Ruth Speidel, & Tina Malti).
Jennifer Somers, Assistant Professor, Auburn University.
Mother-infant RSA Synchrony During Free Play: A Dyadic Resilience Resource (Jennifer A. Somers).
Jianing Sun, Developmental Psychology Doctoral student, The Pennylvania State University.
The Development Of RSA Self-Regulation And Coregulation Across Early Childhood: Variation By Caregiving Risk (Jianing Sun, Sy-Miin Chow, Longfeng Li, Erika Lunkenheimer).