Pond Ezra
Biographic Data
| ID | 119802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pond Ezra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pond |
| FAMILY NAME | Ezra |
| SIGNATURE | EZRA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2720-7453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“I’ve never felt better”
Parental Sexual Orientation Socialization for Sexual Minority Youth
Objective To identify and conceptualize parent–child interactions about cisgender sexual minority youths' (SMY) minoritized sexual identity, with an explicit focus on parenting communication and behaviors. Background SMY experience stigma and consequently compromised development and health. Adjacent literature on racial/ethnic minoritized youth demonstrates the protective function of identity‐based parenting practices that facilitate adaptive str…
Seahorse Dads
This paper expands existing family theories to better account for the experiences of transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people who become parents through pregnancy, often referred to as seahorse dads . Although queer family scholarship has challenged binary understandings of gender within families, existing theories have yet to focus on how TGNC people dynamically engage with gender through parenting across the life course. Drawing from …
Play therapy in preschool
A quasi-experimental design was used to examine a play therapy intervention (CTRT: Child Teacher Relationship Training) aimed to improve children's behavior, the quality of teacher-child relationships, and teacher's empathy. Participants included 18 teachers and 175 preschool children. Classrooms were assigned to CTRT, time-control, or business-as-usual conditions. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed a main effect of intervention condition …
How can you really step up?”
Defining and measuring family
ObjectiveThis essay discusses the challenges and opportunities of defining family in the context of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people.BackgroundLGBTQ+ people and their families remain at the forefront of novel family scholarship. Interrogating methodological approaches to defining family are critical for overcoming the continued marginalization and misrepresentation of LGBTQ+ family scholarship.MethodWe review and pre…
Parental support is not enough
LGBTQ+ youth endure health inequities resulting from stigma and would benefit from strategies that help them navigate unique developmental challenges. One promising strategy to address LGBTQ+ youths' health is augmenting parenting behaviors to support youth's adaptive strategies in the face of stigma. There remain limited conceptual frameworks and empirical focus on parenting LGBTQ+ youth. Adjacent research on racial‐ethnic socialization—parental…
Defining and measuring family
ObjectiveThis essay discusses the challenges and opportunities of defining family in the context of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people.BackgroundLGBTQ+ people and their families remain at the forefront of novel family scholarship. Interrogating methodological approaches to defining family are critical for overcoming the continued marginalization and misrepresentation of LGBTQ+ family scholarship.MethodWe review and pre…
Parental support is not enough
LGBTQ+ youth endure health inequities resulting from stigma and would benefit from strategies that help them navigate unique developmental challenges. One promising strategy to address LGBTQ+ youths' health is augmenting parenting behaviors to support youth's adaptive strategies in the face of stigma. There remain limited conceptual frameworks and empirical focus on parenting LGBTQ+ youth. Adjacent research on racial‐ethnic socialization—parental…
Parental support is not enough
LGBTQ+ youth endure health inequities resulting from stigma and would benefit from strategies that help them navigate unique developmental challenges. One promising strategy to address LGBTQ+ youths' health is augmenting parenting behaviors to support youth's adaptive strategies in the face of stigma. There remain limited conceptual frameworks and empirical focus on parenting LGBTQ+ youth. Adjacent research on racial‐ethnic socialization—parental…
How can you really step up?”
Defining and measuring family
ObjectiveThis essay discusses the challenges and opportunities of defining family in the context of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people.BackgroundLGBTQ+ people and their families remain at the forefront of novel family scholarship. Interrogating methodological approaches to defining family are critical for overcoming the continued marginalization and misrepresentation of LGBTQ+ family scholarship.MethodWe review and pre…
Seahorse Dads
This paper expands existing family theories to better account for the experiences of transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people who become parents through pregnancy, often referred to as seahorse dads . Although queer family scholarship has challenged binary understandings of gender within families, existing theories have yet to focus on how TGNC people dynamically engage with gender through parenting across the life course. Drawing from …
Play therapy in preschool
A quasi-experimental design was used to examine a play therapy intervention (CTRT: Child Teacher Relationship Training) aimed to improve children's behavior, the quality of teacher-child relationships, and teacher's empathy. Participants included 18 teachers and 175 preschool children. Classrooms were assigned to CTRT, time-control, or business-as-usual conditions. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed a main effect of intervention condition …
“I’ve never felt better”
Parental Sexual Orientation Socialization for Sexual Minority Youth
Objective To identify and conceptualize parent–child interactions about cisgender sexual minority youths' (SMY) minoritized sexual identity, with an explicit focus on parenting communication and behaviors. Background SMY experience stigma and consequently compromised development and health. Adjacent literature on racial/ethnic minoritized youth demonstrates the protective function of identity‐based parenting practices that facilitate adaptive str…
LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Scholarship (2 works) · Sexual orientation (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)