Featuring: Jeff Temple, PhD Founding Director, Center for Violence Prevention, UTMB

What does it mean for something to “hold” your attention?

And what is the difference between losing focus and having an attention deficit disorder?

Today, we try to understand how our brains work when it comes to processing information and finding focus.

Writer Casey Schwartz is here to discuss and share to share her personal experience with the drug Adderall and finding her new path to focus and is joined by psychologist Dr. Jeff Temple. Listeners also share how ADHD medications have impacted their lives.

Casey Schwartz

• Author of "Attention: A Love Story"
• Regular contributor regularly to The New York Times and lives in New York City

Town Square with Ernie Manouse is a gathering space for the community to come together and discuss the day's most important and pressing issues.

Featuring: Jeff Temple, PhD Founding Director, Center for Violence Prevention, UTMB

Mental health experts examine ways to reduce stress and why the term “self-care” is misunderstood.

Some experts say that the way we learn to deal with stress during childhood,
will be the way we deal with stress for the rest of our lives.

How can we better understand our responses to stress and make time for self-care? And how do manage it all when we add in jobs, relationships, family responsibilities?

Experts are here to discuss forming healthy habits and to share strategies on how to be kinder to ourselves: from paying attention to our own needs to set boundaries.

Dr. Jeff Temple

• Director of the Center for Violence Prevention and psychologist at UTMB

Veronica Cavazos

• Licensed Professional Counselor with Community Health Network

Town Square with Ernie Manouse is a gathering space for the community to come together and discuss the day's most important and pressing issues.

Featuring: Jeff Temple, PhD Founding Director, Center for Violence Prevention, UTMB

                    Leila Wood, PhD, Director of Evaluation, Center for Violence Prevention, UTMB

Featuring: Jeff Temple, PhD Founding Director, Center for Violence Prevention, UTMB

Dr. Jeff Temple is a Professor, Licensed Psychologist, and Founding Director of the Center for Violence Prevention at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

His research focuses on the prevention of interpersonal, community, and structural violence, and has been funded through the National Institute of Justice, National Institutes of Health, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
He has over 200 scholarly publications in a variety of high impact journals including JAMA, JAMA Pediatrics, The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, Pediatrics, and the Journal of Adolescent Health.
He recently co-edited a book on adolescent dating violence, is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Primary Prevention, and is on the editorial boards of five other scientific journals.
Dr. Temple recently co-chaired the Texas Task Force on Domestic Violence and served on the Board of Directors of the Texas Psychological Association.
Locally, he served as the Vice President of the Galveston Independent School District Board of Trustees. His work has been featured on CNN, New York Times, TIME Magazine, Washington Post, and even the satirical website, The Onion.

Questions / Discussion Topics
- Relationships among teens and how they interact, how they develop, and what helps them go good and bad.
- Kids who had sexted were twice as likely to engage in physical sexual behaviors
- Marion Underwood study.
- Smartphones make the things kids have always done more public.
- When did you begin researching the prevalence of sexting among teens?
- Teach kids how to be in a relationship.
- Electronic Sexual Assault vs. Revenge Porn.
- What types of adolescent dating violence did you research write about?
- Did you find a significant gender divide? What other demographic factors come into play
- What links are there, if any, between technology and dating violence among adolescents?
- What are the key steps that schools can take to prevent adolescent dating violence and provide support to victims?
- What can parents do to protect their children?
- How can adolescents protect themselves or their peers?

Featuring: Jeff Temple, PhD Founding Director, Center for Violence Prevention, UTMB

In this episode of Innovation for All, Jeff Temple, professor and licensed psychologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch will discuss his research that studies teenage sexting behaviors. Jeff explains the gender breakdown of teenage sexting, the factors that may lead to psychological consequences, and how it may be a safe way for LGBTQ youth to explore sexuality.

In this episode you will learn:

• How psychologists define what sexting is
• What sexting looks like in adults
• How sexting should be looked at in the context of universal prevention programs rather than as a bad behavior
• What Jeff’s longitudinal studies of teenage sexting involve
• The challenges of studying sexting in teenagers
• The breakdown of sexting in girls compared to boys What factors related to sexting could lead to psychological health consequences Why consensual sexting does not lead to psychological health issues
• How media headlines misrepresent today’s teenagers as “sex-crazed”
• If sexting can be used as a safe way explore sexuality If there are legal risks in having nude photos on your phone
• What makes people want to sext
• How sexuality plays into the research of teenage sexting
• Opportunity to talk to your teenager in an ongoing conversation How in the future psychology may be integrated into primary care
• Why college athletes should be paid