Thank you Beatrice. You ask a good question about from when I am interested in hearing about advances? I guess I mean the last 10-15 years or the digital age. Thank you for the suggestion, I wiil read this.
Actually I am not able to locate advances from the last 10-15 years. All methods have deeper roots but are of course modified times and again. Here are some references:
Armitage, Christopher J.; Conner, Mark (2001). Efficacy of the Theory of Planned Behaviour: A meta-analytic review. British Journal of Social Psychology (2001), 40, 471–499
Breslow, N.E.; Clayton, D.G. (1993). "Approximate Inference in Generalized Linear Mixed Models". Journal of the American Statistical Association 88 (421): 9–25. doi:10.2307/2290687. JSTOR 2290687.
Cohen, J., Cohen P., West, S.G., & Aiken, L.S. (2003). Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences. (2nd ed.) Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Fitzmaurice, Garrett M.; Laird, Nan M.; Ware, James H. (2004). Applied longitudinal analysis. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 0-471-21487-6.
and we all have our favorite textbook when it comes to statistics in psychology and I presume that it is the case also in other behavioral fields of science,
This is an innovative paper that would appear to meet your requirements
Steele, FA & Goldstein, H 2006, 'A Multilevel Factor Model for Mixed Binary and Ordinal Indicators of Women's Status' Sociological Methods and Research, vol 35 (1), pp. 137 - 153., 10.1177/0049124106289112
which was developed into this with greater empasis on dealing with missing values
Harvey Goldstein , James Carpenter, Michael G Kenward and Kate A Levin (2009