Media Coverage

Our research has been featured on several radio shows, videos, and news articles. For media inquiries, please email us at healthy-family-research.org.

Radio Shows

Focus Carolina: Melissa Lippold, WRAL public radio interview, 2019

Dr. Lippold discusses the importance of parent-adolescent communication and how mindful parenting may enhance communication (Part 1) and the importance of parents in preventing adolescent behavioral health problems (Part 2).

News Articles

Information overload: Parenting amid the ‘infodemic,’ and what new science has to say about keeping calm. The Pittsburgh Gazette. Story by A. Mackey. November 30, 2023.

New study shows stress in children affects parents’ stress levels. UNC Contact Magazine, 2020.

Lippold named as national co-leader for Grand Challenge. UNC Contact Magazine, 2020.

The secret to communicating with your teens. Child Trends News Service, 2019.

Moms of teens can benefit from social support, just like new moms.  National Public Radio, 2017.

Researcher studies how parent-child relationships are linked to health. UNC Contact Magazine, 2015.

Videos

Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World

Below is a video from a 2-year collaboration between Dr. Lippold and colleagues in human development, social work, and psychology. In this video, Dr. Lippold and her collaborators discuss their research and perspectives on parenting adolescents.

Short version
Dr Lippold discusses her work at 6:14.

Long version:
​Dr. Lippold discusses her work in the following sections:
15:03-17:52: How does your research promote healthy outcomes for youth?
28:59-31:46: What is it about adolescence today that may call for new or revised parenting theories?
45:01-49:23: What should developmental scientists do next to better understand how to parent adolescents today?

Predictors of Parenting Behaviors

In this video abstract, Dr. Lippold discusses how parents’ social support and perceived control over their lives influenced their parenting behaviors. 

UNC Meet the Researcher, Melissa Lippold

Dr. Lippold discusses parent-adolescent relationships and adolescent stress and health.