Developmental scientist studying social underpinnings of adolescent educational and health disparities | @UConnRuddCenter | @Act4HlthyKids | PhD @UCLA
New York, NY
Joined October 2018
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Dr. Leah Lessard retweeted
#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
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Dr. Leah Lessard retweeted
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/acti…
Dr. Leah Lessard retweeted
“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
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#mentalhealth #policy #bullying
Dr. Leah Lessard retweeted
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.
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@UDStigmaLab @DrRyanJWatson @anniefoxgalalis
Dr. Leah Lessard retweeted
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:
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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%).
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/…
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.
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-…
Dr. Leah Lessard retweeted
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
Dr. Leah Lessard retweeted
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.
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Dr. Leah Lessard retweeted
"Is #Facebook Promoting Self-Stigma?" conscienhealth.org/2021/09/f… 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..."
Dr. Leah Lessard retweeted
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/jsab0…
Dr. Leah Lessard retweeted
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 🔗
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
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Dr. Leah Lessard retweeted
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."
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Dr. Leah Lessard retweeted
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!
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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
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Dr. Leah Lessard retweeted
🎊 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.
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.cogpsych.2…
Teens across diverse sexual & gender identities who feel safer at school engage in fewer unhealthy weight control and disordered eating behaviors. Our latest findings via @ASHAnews @DrRyanJWatson @EthanWang98
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Dr. Leah Lessard retweeted
Going back to school after a year of virtual learning can be challenging. Rudd fellow @LessardLeah's study found that during the pandemic, adolescents reported academics & work habits to be among their biggest challenges, ahead of mental & physical health.
today.uconn.edu/2021/08/pand…