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    Senior Research Scientist Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D., co-authored a health advisory on social media use in adolescence released by the American Psychological Association.

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    Journeys in Youth Development Podcast, Episode 4

    APRIL 2023

    NIOST director Georgia Hall, Ph.D., talks to Terrance Cauley, Senior Director in the Department of Youth, Family & Clinical Services at Better Family Life, Inc. in St. Louis, Missouri. Terrance highlights the importance of offering historically marginalized Black youth opportunities for self-definition, and discusses how he does this through his work in out-of-school time programming.

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    February 2023

    WCW will lead the design of a social inclusion strategy to empower women and young people in the Liberian forestry sector.

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    Having 'The Talk' with Teens

    February 2023

    Jennifer Grossman, Ph.D., shares findings from interviews with fathers about how they try to make conversations with their teens about sex and dating less awkward.

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    The Wage Gap: The Motherhood Penalty and the Fatherhood Premium

    December 2022

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is a research and action institute at Wellesley College that is focused on women and gender and driven by social change.
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Year Published: 2007

Authors: Georgia Hall, Ph.D., and Diane Gruber, M.A.

Reprinted with permission from School-Age Notes, the most trusted publisher and provider of quality, innovative resources designed to elevate the skills of adults who create learning opportunities for children and youth.

From Barbie to Miss America, the media' s portrayal of the ideal female body image has been shown to be detrimental in influencing a girl' s body perception (Huber, 1995). Everyday girls are exposed through the media to images of beauty and thinness, and the belief that if they don' t fit these images they are inadequate is reinforced. Advertisement strategies take advantage of adolescent insecurity and self-doubt in order to sell products. Young girls are increasingly at-risk for developing low self-esteem because they cannot escape the message that their bodies are imperfect (Kilbourne, 1999).

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