Jordan Foster
@jordancfoster.bsky.social
he/him | Clinical psych PhD @Yale| Childhood stress & anxiety disorders | Affective neuroscience | Memory | Structural inequity & early development | NSF-GRFP fellow
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I co-authored this piece with two wonderful colleagues.
There are many things to be horrified by in this administration's fascist actions - child abuse, masked civilian vigilantes, Exec disdain for the Courts, the Constitution and Congress, mass assaults and kidnapping.
There are many things to be horrified by in this administration's fascist actions - child abuse, masked civilian vigilantes, Exec disdain for the Courts, the Constitution and Congress, mass assaults and kidnapping.
Opinion | Trump’s cruel immigration machine is still tearing families apart
In its first five months, this administration has taken approximately 500 migrant children living in the U.S. from their homes and into government custody.
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June 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I co-authored this piece with two wonderful colleagues.
There are many things to be horrified by in this administration's fascist actions - child abuse, masked civilian vigilantes, Exec disdain for the Courts, the Constitution and Congress, mass assaults and kidnapping.
There are many things to be horrified by in this administration's fascist actions - child abuse, masked civilian vigilantes, Exec disdain for the Courts, the Constitution and Congress, mass assaults and kidnapping.
Reposted by Jordan Foster
Mass deportation IS family separation. With colleagues @jordancfoster.bsky.social and @profdfhesq.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump’s cruel immigration machine is still tearing families apart
In its first five months, this administration has taken approximately 500 migrant children living in the U.S. from their homes and into government custody.
www.msnbc.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Mass deportation IS family separation. With colleagues @jordancfoster.bsky.social and @profdfhesq.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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🏠📉 New research in @jama.com (JAMA Network Open) highlights the impact of housing instability on children's mental health. We explored how stress about eviction or housing loss affects child depression, anxiety, ADHD, & behavioral problems.
#HousingInstability
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#HousingInstability
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Stress About Eviction or Loss of Housing and Child Mental Health
This cross-sectional study examines the association of stress about eviction or the loss of housing with caregiver-reported depression, anxiety, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and behaviora...
jamanetwork.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🏠📉 New research in @jama.com (JAMA Network Open) highlights the impact of housing instability on children's mental health. We explored how stress about eviction or housing loss affects child depression, anxiety, ADHD, & behavioral problems.
#HousingInstability
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#HousingInstability
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President Trump has rescinded former President Biden’s Executive Order which created a task force to reunite families deliberately separated at the border by Trump. As many as 1,000 families remain separated because of that policy.
January 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
President Trump has rescinded former President Biden’s Executive Order which created a task force to reunite families deliberately separated at the border by Trump. As many as 1,000 families remain separated because of that policy.
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Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting.
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<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
Overparenting—taking over and completing developmentally appropriate tasks for children—is pervasive and hurts children's motivation. Can overparenting in early childhood be reduced by simply framing...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting.
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Jordan Foster
Our group's latest paper shows how childhood adversity shapes brain development with age. Deprivation slows age-related decreases in cortical surface area in cognitive regions, while threat exposure leads to age-related increases in socioemotional regions. Read more: shorturl.at/rtMST
Early Exposure to Deprivation or Threat Moderates Expected Associations Between Neural Structure and Age in Adolescent Girls - Kathryn Garrisi, Angelina Pei-Tzu Tsai, Kinjal K. Patel, Meredith A. Gruh...
Childhood adversity (CA) is associated with increased risk of negative health outcomes. Research implicates brain structure following CA as a key mechanism of t...
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November 22, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Our group's latest paper shows how childhood adversity shapes brain development with age. Deprivation slows age-related decreases in cortical surface area in cognitive regions, while threat exposure leads to age-related increases in socioemotional regions. Read more: shorturl.at/rtMST