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Child and adolescent psychiatry training in Nepal: early career psychiatrists’ perspective

Nepal is a developing low-income country in Southeast Asia. There is a huge burden of child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) in Nepal which has a population of around 29 million and 40–50% of the population...

Authors: Utkarsh Karki, Yugesh Rai, Gunjan Dhonju, Eesha Sharma, Preeti Jacob, John Vijay Sagar Kommu and Shekhar P. Seshadri

Mental health problems and associated school interpersonal relationships among adolescents in China: a cross-sectional study

During adolescence, middle school students facing psychophysical changes are vulnerable to psychological problems. The present study aimed to investigate mental health status and associated school interpersona...

Authors: Jiayu Li, Jing Li, Ruixia Jia, Yingquan Wang, Sheng Qian and Yong Xu

Outcomes of reducing stigma towards alcohol misuse during adolescence: results of a randomized controlled trial of the MAKINGtheLINK intervention

While it is well-recognized that the stigma associated with alcohol use problems can prevent or delay help-seeking, there is limited research examining stigmatising attitudes towards alcohol misuse, or their c...

Authors: Ali Cheetham, Emma Sandral and Dan I. Lubman

Medications for sleep disturbance in children and adolescents with depression: a survey of Canadian child and adolescent psychiatrists

Primary care physicians and child and adolescent psychiatrists often treat sleep disturbances in children and adolescents with mood disorders using medications off-label, in the absence of clear evidence for e...

Authors: Addo Boafo, Stephanie Greenham, Marla Sullivan, Khalid Bazaid, Sinthuja Suntharalingam, Lana Silbernagel, Katherine Magner and Rébecca Robillard

Attributional and attentional bias in children with conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits: a case–control study

Children who are frequently aggressive or lack empathy show various deficits in their social information processing. Several findings suggest that children with conduct problems (CP) show a tendency to interpr...

Authors: Daniela Hartmann, Kathrin Ueno and Christina Schwenck

Adapting a family intervention to reduce risk factors for sexual exploitation

Sexually exploited youth are disconnected from societal tethers and need support systems, which makes them some of the most vulnerable of youth. This heightened level of vulnerability increases their risk for ...

Authors: Dawn T. Bounds, Caitlin H. Otwell, Adrian Melendez, Niranjan S. Karnik and Wrenetha A. Julion

Psychosocial stressors and protective factors for major depression in youth: evidence from a case–control study

Severe adverse life events, such as traumatic experiences, are well-known stressors implicated in (youth) major depression (MD). However, to date, far less is known about the role of more common psychosocial s...

Authors: Charlotte Elisabeth Piechaczek, Verena Pehl, Lisa Feldmann, Stefan Haberstroh, Antje-Kathrin Allgaier, Franz Joseph Freisleder, Gerd Schulte-Körne and Ellen Greimel

Serial measurement of mood via text messaging in young people

To support longitudinal research into mood in adolescents we sought to assess the feasibility of collecting mood data via Short Message Service (SMS) over 3 years, and to investigate the relationship between S...

Authors: Philip Hazell, Ben Balzer, Patrick Kelly, Karen Paxton, Catherine Hawke, Rebecca Ivers, Rachel Skinner, Georgina Luscombe and Katharine S. Steinbeck

Retraction Note to: Mental health status, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors of migrant children in eastern coastal China in comparison to urban children: a cross-sectional survey

The authors have retracted this article [1] because they do not have documentation of approval of their study by the ethics committee.

Authors: Jingjing Lu, Feng Wang, Pengfei Chai, Dongshuo Wang, Lu Li and Xudong Zhou

Smartphone use disorder and future time perspective of college students: the mediating role of depression and moderating role of mindfulness

Smartphone use disorder (SUD) of college students has drawn increasing attention. Although future time perspective (FTP) may be an important protective factor for individual SUD, the moderating and mediating m...

Authors: Yangchang Zhang, Shuai Lv, Cunya Li, Yang Xiong, Chenxi Zhou, Xuerui Li and Mengliang Ye

User participation and shared decision-making in adolescent mental healthcare: a qualitative study of healthcare professionals’ perspectives

Most mental health problems occur in adolescence. There is increasing recognition of user participation and shared decision-making in adolescents’ mental healthcare. However, research in this field of clinical...

Authors: Stig Bjønness, Petter Viksveen, Jan Olav Johannessen and Marianne Storm

Are school difficulties an early sign for mental disorder diagnosis and suicide prevention? A comparative study of individuals who died by suicide and control group

Suicide is the third leading cause of death worldwide among youth aged 10- to 19, and mental disorders are often associated in the etiology of suicidal behavior. Mental disorders are often under-diagnosed and ...

Authors: Fabienne Ligier, Charles-Edouard Giguère, Charles-Edouard Notredame, Alain Lesage, Johanne Renaud and Monique Séguin

Virtual reality exposure therapy for adolescents with fear of public speaking: a non-randomized feasibility and pilot study

Public Speaking Anxiety (PSA) is a common anxiety with onset in adolescence and early adulthood. With the advent of consumer virtual reality (VR) technology, VR-delivered exposure therapy is now a scalable and...

Authors: Smiti Kahlon, Philip Lindner and Tine Nordgreen

Measuring children’s emotional and behavioural problems: are SDQ parent reports from native and immigrant parents comparable?

The number of immigrants worldwide is growing and migration might be a risk factor for the mental health of children. A reliable instrument is needed to measure immigrants' childrens mental health. The aim of ...

Authors: Ronja A. Runge and Renate Soellner

Looking into the crystal ball: quality of life, delinquency, and problems experienced by young male adults after discharge from a secure residential care setting in the Netherlands

Adolescents in residential care are a vulnerable population with many problems in several life areas. For most of these adolescents, these problems persist after discharge and into adulthood. Since an accumula...

Authors: E. A. W. Janssen-de Ruijter, E. A. Mulder, I. L. Bongers, L. Omlo and Ch. van Nieuwenhuizen

Developing the universal unified prevention program for diverse disorders for school-aged children

Psychological problems during childhood and adolescence are highly prevalent, frequently comorbid, and incur severe social burden. A school-based universal prevention approach is one avenue to address these is...

Authors: Shin-ichi Ishikawa, Kohei Kishida, Takuya Oka, Aya Saito, Sakie Shimotsu, Norio Watanabe, Hiroki Sasamori and Yoko Kamio

Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder among targets of school bullying

The aim of this study was to investigate whether bullying among students is associated with symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and whether associations are comparable to other traumatic events l...

Authors: Fanny Carina Ossa, Reinhard Pietrowsky, Robert Bering and Michael Kaess

Moving from ‘personal communication’ to ‘available online at’: preprint servers enhance the timeliness of scientific exchange

Authors: Daniel Poremski, Bruno Falissard, Jörg Fegert, Andreas Witt, Anna E. Ordóñez, Andrés Martin and Daniel Shuen Sheng Fung

Reduced caregiving quality measured during the strange situation procedure increases child’s autonomic nervous system stress response

Dysfunctional maternal behavior has been shown to lead to disturbances in infant’s regulatory capacities and alterations in vagal reactivity. We aim to investigate the autonomic nervous system (ANS) response o...

Authors: Franziska Köhler-Dauner, Eva Roder, Sabrina Krause, Anna Buchheim, Harald Gündel, Jörg M. Fegert, Ute Ziegenhain and Christiane Waller

A pilot and feasibility study of a cognitive behavioural therapy-based anxiety prevention programme for junior high school students in Japan: a quasi-experimental study

There is a good deal of evidence that cognitive behavioural therapy is effective for children and adolescents with anxiety-related problems. In Japan, an anxiety prevention programme based on cognitive behavio...

Authors: Ikuyo Ohira, Yuko Urao, Yasunori Sato, Toshiyuki Ohtani and Eiji Shimizu

Mental health and risk behaviors of children in rural China with different patterns of parental migration: a cross-sectional study

One in seven members of China’s population are migrants. There are an estimated 41 million children left behind in rural areas who are living without one or both of their parents. The impact of two- and single...

Authors: Feng Wang, Jingjing Lu, Leesa Lin and Xudong Zhou

Executive functioning and neurodevelopmental disorders in early childhood: a prospective population-based study

Executive functioning deficits are common in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. However, prior research mainly focused on clinical populations employing cross-sectional designs, impeding conclusions o...

Authors: D. Louise Otterman, M. Elisabeth Koopman-Verhoeff, Tonya J. White, Henning Tiemeier, Koen Bolhuis and Pauline W. Jansen

Social anxiety disorder and emotion regulation problems in adolescents

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) in adolescents may be associated with the use of maladaptive emotion regulation (ER) strategies. The present study examined the use of maladaptive and adaptive ER strategies in ad...

Authors: Petra Sackl-Pammer, Rebecca Jahn, Zeliha Özlü-Erkilic, Eva Pollak, Susanne Ohmann, Julia Schwarzenberg, Paul Plener and Türkan Akkaya-Kalayci

Omega-3 fatty acids for the treatment of depressive disorders in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of randomized placebo-controlled trials

To investigate the efficacy and safety of omega-3 fatty acids (O3FA) in treating depressive disorders in children and adolescents.

Authors: Li Zhang, Huan Liu, Li Kuang, Huaqing Meng and Xinyu Zhou

Mental health problems of children and adolescents, with and without migration background, living in Vienna, Austria

Compared to their indigenous peers, migrant children and adolescents are at increased risk for mental health problems. The aim of our study was to compare psychological disorders of children and adolescents wi...

Authors: Maria Teresa Gutmann, Metin Aysel, Zeliha Özlü-Erkilic, Christian Popow and Türkan Akkaya-Kalayci

Come together: case specific cross-institutional cooperation of youth welfare services and child and adolescent psychiatry

Due to the increasing rate of children and families who require support from both youth welfare services and from mental health services, a solid cross-institutional cooperation is needed to provide coordinate...

Authors: Judith Mack, Sina Wanderer, Michael Kölch and Veit Roessner

Cannabis and amphetamine use and its psychosocial correlates among school-going adolescents in Ghana

The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of cannabis and amphetamine use and to determine its associated factors among school-going adolescents in Ghana.

Authors: Kwaku Oppong Asante

Online sexual abuse of adolescents by a perpetrator met online: a cross-sectional study

The current study aimed at exploring adolescents’ experiences of online sexual contacts leading to online sexual abuse by a perpetrator whom the victim had first met online. Associations with socio demographic...

Authors: Linda S. Jonsson, Cecilia Fredlund, Gisela Priebe, Marie Wadsby and Carl Göran Svedin

Goal setting improves retention in youth mental health: a cross-sectional analysis

This study explored if a youth-specific mental health service routinely set goals with young people during initial intake/assessment and if goal setting and goal quality in this service was associated with pat...

Authors: Alice J. Cairns, David J. Kavanagh, Frances Dark and Steven M. McPhail

International findings with the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA): applications to clinical services, research, and training

The purpose of this invited article is to present multicultural norms and related international findings obtained with the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) by indigenous researchers in ...

Authors: Thomas M. Achenbach

Reduced prefrontal hemodynamic response in pediatric autism spectrum disorder measured with near-infrared spectroscopy

Functional neuroimaging studies suggest that prefrontal cortex dysfunction is present in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Near-infrared spectroscopy is a noninvasive optical tool for examining oxyge...

Authors: Mitsuhiro Uratani, Toyosaku Ota, Junzo Iida, Kosuke Okazaki, Kazuhiko Yamamuro, Yoko Nakanishi, Naoko Kishimoto and Toshifumi Kishimoto

The effects of comorbid Tourette symptoms on distress caused by compulsive-like behavior in very young children: a cross-sectional study

Many children 4 to 6 years old exhibit compulsive-like behavior, often with comorbid Tourette symptoms, making this age group critical for investigating the effects of having comorbid Tourette symptoms with co...

Authors: Ryunosuke Goto, Miyuki Fujio, Natsumi Matsuda, Mayu Fujiwara, Marina Nobuyoshi, Maiko Nonaka, Toshiaki Kono, Masaki Kojima, Norbert Skokauskas and Yukiko Kano

The Sävsjö-school-project: a cluster-randomized trial aimed at improving the literacy of beginners—achievements, mental health, school satisfaction and reading capacity at the end of grade three using an alternative school curriculum

A curriculum was planned using modern concepts based on the “old” principles to test if such an educational intervention provided pupils with good mental health and a solid basis for good reading and writing s...

Authors: Göran Ahlqvist, Jan-Olov Larsson, Tatjana von Rosen, Mara Westling Allodi and Per-Anders Rydelius

Parental military deployment as risk factor for children’s mental health: a meta-analytical review

There is evidence that military service increases the risk of psychosocial burden for not only service members but also their spouses and children. This meta-analysis aimed to systematically assess the associa...

Authors: Katrin Cunitz, Claudia Dölitzsch, Markus Kösters, Gerd-Dieter Willmund, Peter Zimmermann, Antje Heike Bühler, Jörg M. Fegert, Ute Ziegenhain and Michael Kölch

Psychometric evaluation of a parent-rating and self-rating inventory for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: German OCD Inventory for Children and Adolescents (OCD-CA)

This study assesses the psychometric properties of the German version of the Padua Inventory-Washington State University Revision for measuring pediatric OCD.

Authors: Julia Adam, Hildegard Goletz, Svenja-Kristin Mattausch, Julia Plück and Manfred Döpfner

The relationship between the psychological stress of adolescents in school and the prevalence of chronic low back pain: a cross-sectional study in China

Accumulating evidence supports an association between an unhealthy mental state and low back pain (LBP). However, the degree of the association between mental health and chronic low back pain (CLBP) in the gen...

Authors: Qixiang Mei, Chunlin Li, Yue Yin, Qi Wang, Qiugen Wang and Guoying Deng

Social factors associated with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI)

Authors: Rebecca C. Brown and Andreas Witt

Providing manualized individual trauma-focused CBT to unaccompanied refugee minors with uncertain residence status: a pilot study

Unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) seeking asylum show high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety. In addition, they experience post-migration stressors like an uncertain resid...

Authors: Johanna Unterhitzenberger, Svenja Wintersohl, Margret Lang, Julia König and Rita Rosner

Gender-specific substance use patterns and associations with individual, family, peer, and school factors in 15-year-old Portuguese adolescents: a latent class regression analysis

Adolescence is a critical period of vulnerability to substance use. Recent research has shown that gender differences in adolescence substance use are complex and in constant flux. The present study aims to in...

Authors: João Picoito, Constança Santos, Isabel Loureiro, Pedro Aguiar and Carla Nunes

Longitudinal studies in forensic child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health: CAPMH thematic series 2018/2019

Authors: Klaus Schmeck, Jörg M. Fegert and Cyril Boonmann

Shaping the future of child and adolescent psychiatry

Child and adolescent psychiatry is in a unique position to respond to the growing public health challenges associated with the large number of mental disorders arising early in life, but some changes may be ne...

Authors: Norbert Skokauskas, Daniel Fung, Lois T. Flaherty, Kai von Klitzing, Dainius Pūras, Chiara Servili, Tarun Dua, Bruno Falissard, Panos Vostanis, María Beatriz Moyano, Inna Feldman, Ciaran Clark, Vlatka Boričević, George Patton, Bennett Leventhal and Anthony Guerrero

Trauma-focused group intervention for unaccompanied young refugees: “Mein Weg”—predictors of treatment outcomes and sustainability of treatment effects

Current research on treatment predictors and long-term effects of trauma-focused interventions for (unaccompanied) refugee minors is limited. This secondary analysis of a recent randomised controlled trial (RC...

Authors: Elisa Pfeiffer, Cedric Sachser, Dunja Tutus, Joerg M. Fegert and Paul L. Plener

CAPMH health-related quality of life among adolescent psychiatric outpatients: a 12-month follow-up study among 12–14-year-old Finnish boys and girls

Little is known about adolescents’ perceptions about their health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in the course of routine adolescent psychiatric treatment. The aim of this 1-year follow-up study was to invest...

Authors: Anne Rissanen, Nina Lindberg, Mauri Marttunen, Harri Sintonen and Risto Roine

Pathways to a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in Germany: a survey of parents

Early identification of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is a prerequisite for access to early interventions. Although parents often note developmental atypicalities during the first 2 years of life, many child...

Authors: Juliana Höfer, Falk Hoffmann, Inge Kamp-Becker, Luise Poustka, Veit Roessner, Sanna Stroth, Nicole Wolff and Christian J. Bachmann

Sibling relationships of female adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injury disorder in comparison to a clinical and a nonclinical control group

Adolescents’ nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) leads to distress that affects the whole family system, and siblings are reported to suffer from disrupted family communication and functioning. So far, no studies h...

Authors: Taru Tschan, Janine Lüdtke, Marc Schmid and Tina In-Albon

Utilizing a family-based economic strengthening intervention to improve mental health wellbeing among female adolescent orphans in Uganda

It is estimated that almost 20% of the world’s adolescents have experienced or are experiencing a mental health problem. Several factors have been associated with the onset of adolescent mental health disorder...

Authors: Apollo Kivumbi, William Byansi, Fred M. Ssewamala, Nabunya Proscovia, Christopher Damulira and Phionah Namatovu

Maltreatment history, trauma symptoms and research reactivity among adolescents in child protection services

There is a well-documented link between child maltreatment and poor health across the lifespan. This provides a strong case for ongoing research with youth involved in the child welfare system to reduce negati...

Authors: Randall Waechter, Dilesha Kumanayaka, Colleen Angus-Yamada, Christine Wekerle and Savanah Smith

Gender differences in Korean adolescents who died by suicide based on teacher reports

We investigated the characteristics of adolescents who committed suicide in South Korea, and how these characteristics differed by gender.

Authors: Song Jung, Dayoung Lee, Sungjun Park, Kangwoo Lee, Yong-Sil Kweon, Eun-Jin Lee, Kyung Hee Yoon, Hannah Cho, Hyeji Jung, Ah Reum Kim, Bo-Ram Shin and Hyun Ju Hong

Favourable short-term course and outcome of pediatric anxiety spectrum disorders: a prospective study from India

Although anxiety disorders are the most prevalent psychiatric disorders among children and adolescents, there is a paucity of research on the course and outcome of anxiety spectrum disorders in low and middle-...

Authors: Preeti Kandasamy, Satish C. Girimaji, Shekhar P. Seshadri, Shoba Srinath and John Vijay Sagar Kommu

The bumpy road to change: a retrospective qualitative study on formerly detained adolescents’ trajectories towards better lives

Currently, the risk-oriented focus in forensic youth care is increasingly complemented by a growing interest in strengths-based approaches. Knowledge on how detention and the subsequent period in the community...

Authors: Nele Van Hecke, Wouter Vanderplasschen, Lore Van Damme and Stijn Vandevelde