Erin Thompson
Florida International University, FL·Psychology·Early-career
Getting suspended or expelled from school can affect a teenager long after the punishment ends. Young people who pull away from school face higher risks of mental health problems and substance use, and school discipline that removes students from class may push them further away.
- Fields
Psychology
Public Health & Epidemiology
Neuroscience
- Topics
school discipline
exclusionary discipline
adolescent mental health
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jun 2027
What they work on
- Examine how exclusionary school discipline, such as suspension, relates to adolescent mental health and substance use in the ABCD Study, accounting for neighborhood, school, behavioral and socioeconomic factors.
- Assess whether early childhood adversity, such as exposure to violence, changes the strength of links between school discipline and adolescent mental health and substance use outcomes.
- Evaluate how brain functioning and early adversity interact to shape the associations between school discipline and youth health, using neurobiological measures from the ABCD Study.
More about the research
Hard experiences in early childhood, such as exposure to violence, may make some young people more sensitive to stress and change how their brains develop. This could shape how strongly school experiences affect their health.
Why it matters
School discipline is a risk factor that schools can change. Knowing how it combines with childhood adversity and brain development to affect teen mental health and substance use could guide educators, school districts and public health programs. That knowledge may help them reduce long-term health risks for vulnerable adolescents.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Assaf Oshri
University of Georgia, GA·Psychology
Test whether changes in functional connectivity between cognitive control networks and emotion, reward and salience networks explain how early life adversity leads to drug-use vulnerability and drug use, using ABCD Study data on 11,883 youth.
Pamela Madden
Washington University in St Louis, MO·Psychology
Follow and assess children enrolled at the Washington University site of the ABCD Study with brain imaging, cognitive testing, bioassays and health interviews every two years from age 9–10 into young adulthood.
Bader Chaarani
University of Vermont, VT·Psychology
Identify how active (video gaming), passive (TV and videos) and mixed (social media, texting, video chatting) screen media activity relate to mental health, cognition and brain development across four ABCD time points.
The school
Florida International University: 9 labs on PI Pages, $326M a year on research, 264 research doctorates a year.
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