Laura Ferrer Wreder Professor
Contact
Name and title: Laura Ferrer WrederProfessor
Phone: +468163898
Workplace: Department of Psychology Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Albanovägen 12
Postal address Psykologiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
I am a developmental psychologist. The research that I conduct integrates the study of human development, culture, and intervention/implementation science. I focus on advancing our understanding of child and youth development as well as the life conditions of children and adolescents. I have a particular focus on positive development, including the development of social emotional competence and identity development, in diverse children and youth. I also work with schools and community-based organizations to partner with them to build resources to support the children and youth that they serve.
Selected Work
New Book
Ferrer-Wreder, L., Sugimura, K., & Kroger, J. (2026) Identity in Adolescence: The Balance Between Self and Other (5th edition). London, England: Taylor and Francis Group/Routledge. Publication date: May 22, 2026. DOI: 10.4324/9781003486336, ISBN: 9781003486336
Other Selected Recent Publications
Barbett, L., Syropoulos, S., Capozzoli, J. & the C19 Consortium* (2026). Nature connectedness and well-being: Evidence from a multi-national investigation across 75 countries. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 110, 102895. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102895
*Laura Ferrer-Wreder is a C19 Consortium researcher
Wiium, N. & Ferrer-Wreder, L. (2026). Youth development in a global perspective: Broadening the scope. International Journal of Behavioral Development. Online First January 13, 2026. DOI: 10.1177/01650254251411142
Buenconsejo, J. U., Ferrer-Wreder, L., Dimitrova, R., Pavlova, I., Bosnar, K., Bartoluci, S., Katović, D., Prot, F., Sultana, M. S., Islam, M. S., Michałek-Kwiecień, J., Skrzypińska, K., Kazmierczak, M., Lewandowska-Walter, A., Borchet, J., Buzea, C., Stefenel, D., Page, D. T., Luden, M. K., . . . Altansukh, S. (2025). Global profiles of positive youth development: A person-oriented analysis among emerging adults living in 21 countries. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. DOI: 10.1007/s10964-025-02174-z
Buenconsejo, J. U., Ferrer-Wreder, L., Kadir, N. B. A., Krauss, S., Yu, Y., Aruta, J. J. B., Suryani, A. O., Kittiteerasack, P., & Dimitrova, R. (2025). The factorial validity and measurement invariance of the 7Cs of positive youth development among emerging adults in Southeast Asia. Developmental Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/dev0001956
Hau, H. G., Ferrer-Wreder, L., Kapetanovic, S., Tesfay, N., Eninger, L., Hammarberg, E., Gull, I. C., & Olsson, T. M. (2025). Att främja socio-emotionellt lärande hos barn i förskolan. I M. W. Allodi & H. Selenius (Red.), Specialpedagogisk forskning och tidiga insatser (s. 81–98). Stockholm University Press. DOI: 10.16993/bct.e. Licens: CC BY 4.0
Strömbeck, J., Heyne, D., Ferrer-Wreder, L., & Alanko, K. (2025). Validation of an instrument for understanding school absence: the Swedish version of the adapted school refusal assessment scale-revised. BMC Psychology, 13, 1-16. DOI: 10.1186/s40359-025-02936-1
Wikman, C., Allodi, M. W., & Ferrer-Wreder, L. (2025). A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of a Teacher-Coaching Intervention: A Pilot Study Aimed at Supporting Classroom Climate and Student Development. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 69(5), 1063-1079. DOI: 10.1080/00313831.2024.2369893
Wikman, C., Allodi, M. W., & Ferrer-Wreder, L. (2025). En praktikbaserad coachingmodell sätter fokus på det sociala klimatet i lärandemiljön. I M. W. Allodi & H. Selenius (Red.), Specialpedagogisk forskning och tidiga insatser (s. 289–306). Stockholm University Press. DOI: 10.16993/bct.n. Licens: CC BY 4.0
Comiskey, C., Bergeron, H., Clausen, T., Colman, C., Ferrer-Wreder, L., Fischer, G., Gaspar de Matos, M., Ivers, J-H., Jauffret-Roustide, M., Liem, M., Lintonen, T., Moeller, K., Ojanperä, I., Rodríguez de Fonseca, F., & Torrens Mèlich, M. (2024). The importance of co-produced, multi-method, independent scientific evidence in times of alternative truths and global policy debates. International Journal of Drug Policy, 129. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104481
Ferrer-Wreder. L., & Tesfay, N. (2024). The global study of positive youth development: Implications for time, urgency, and social justice. In N. Wiium, D. Manrique-Millones, D. Miconi, & D. Stefenel (Eds.), Addressing Social Justice: A Positive Youth Development Approach (pp. 255–263). DOI: 10.55669/oa311010
Strömbeck, J., Heyne, D., Ferrer-Wreder, L., & Alanko, K. (2024). Reliability and validity of the swedish version of the inventory of school attendance problems (isap). European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1007/s00787-024-02618-0
Other Scholarly Work & News
Laura serves on the editorial board of four scholarly journals. She has also served on research grant review panels for Academy of Finland’s Strategic Research Council, Czech-Norwegian Research Programme, Danish Council for Independent Research, Danish Research Council, Dutch Research Council - Netherlands Initiative for Education Research, European Science Foundation – FNR Luxembourg CORE & Flanders, Icelandic Research Fund, Institut National du Cancer –INCa, French Research Council, Research Council of Norway, and the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency.
Laura Ferrer-Wreder is a member of the Scientific Committee for the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) and is an Affiliate Faculty Member in Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Human Sciences at Texas Tech University, U.S.A. Laura also holds an appointment as Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Agder, Norway.
At the June 24-26, 2026 International Society for Research on Identity (ISRI) conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, Laura will become the new president-elect for the International Society for Research on Identity (ISRI).
Laura Ferrer-Wreder has over two decades of experience as a university-level teacher. She has had formal supervisory or evaluation roles in dissertation, masters, and undergraduate theses for over 97 students or trainees in several countries for example the United States, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, and Pakistan. Presently, Laura is the Director of Studies for the undergraduate education and the International Master’s program (not including the work and organizational PAO programs) at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.
Laura Ferrer-Wreder is co-head of the Applied Developmental Science (ADS) Research Group. In brief, the ADS group exemplifies research that is practical, developmental, and focused on the development of children, adolescents, and their families in key developmental contexts. A theoretical orientation and research actions within the ADS group that provide one illustration of what it means to take a holistic strengths-based view to the study of child and adolescent development is embodied by growing research field of Positive Youth Development (PYD).
To learn more about Positive Youth Development (PYD) and related ideas, see the links and article below.
Global framework on transferable skills | UNICEF
Supporting positive youth development - Stockholms universitet
Wiium, N. & Ferrer-Wreder, L. (2026). Youth development in a global perspective: Broadening the scope. International Journal of Behavioral Development. Online First January 13, 2026. DOI: 10.1177/01650254251411142
A Research Network in the Positive Youth Development (PYD) Area
Laura Ferrer-Wreder is a research partner in The Positive Youth Development Cross-National Project led by Dr. Nora Wiium at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Recently Completed Research Projects in the Positive Youth Development (PYD) Area
Early social emotional competence promotion and its prospective importance to preventing later mental illness. Funder: FORTE
**The Parent Web is created and developed by researchers at Karolinska Institute's Department of Clinical Neuroscience, namely Kajsa Lönn-Rhodin, Martin Forster, and Pia Enebrink. An effectiveness trial of the universal editon of the Parent Web is made possible through a research collaboration with Pia Enebrink.
Scientific Publication Overview
Laura Ferrer-Wreder is an author or co-author of 105 scientific publications. Of these publications, Laura has been a co-author of 6 books [3 authored books publishers: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, Gothia and Springer, 1 edited book (publisher Oxford University Press)], as well as 2 edited e-books (open access, compilations of two journal research topics published by Frontiers in Psychology). Other publications include 62 peer reviewed articles, 12 other scientific articles, 21 contributions to edited books, and 4 other scientific works. For more about these publications see Google Scholar.
