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  1. This qualitative study was nested within a randomized controlled trial (RCT) where two psychotherapeutic interventions (supportive counselling and prolonged exposure for adolescents) were provided by supervise...

    Authors: Tanya van de Water, Jaco Rossouw, Elna Yadin and Soraya Seedat
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:48
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  2. Here we present an overview of the literature on autism in adult and juvenile delinquents. We analyzed both the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in groups of delinquents and the prevalence of offe...

    Authors: A. X. Rutten, R. R. J. M. Vermeiren and Ch. Van Nieuwenhuizen
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:45
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  3. The purpose of this study was to examine the rate and distribution of comorbidities, severity of childhood maltreatment, and clinical characteristics of adolescents with conduct disorder detained in a juvenile...

    Authors: Bum-Sung Choi, Johanna Inhyang Kim, Bung-Nyun Kim and Bongseog Kim
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:44
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  4. Understanding the association between parental socioeconomic position and self-harm in adolescence is crucial due to its substantial magnitude and associated inequality. Most previous studies have been either ...

    Authors: Bereket T. Lodebo, Jette Möller, Jan-Olov Larsson and Karin Engström
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:46
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  5. This study focuses on children living in foster families with a history of maltreatment or neglect. These children often show adverse mental health outcomes reflected in increased externalizing and internalizi...

    Authors: Arnold Lohaus, Sabrina Chodura, Christine Möller, Tabea Symanzik, Daniela Ehrenberg, Ann-Katrin Job, Vanessa Reindl, Kerstin Konrad and Nina Heinrichs
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:43
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  6. During stressful events, individuals (particularly adolescents) from minority groups are often more vulnerable to distress. This claim will be examined in terms of coping resources and stress reactions to esca...

    Authors: Sarah Abu-Kaf, Orna Braun-Lewensohn and Tehila Kalagy
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:42
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  8. Although mental health literacy has been widely studied in adults, there are still relatively few studies on adolescent populations. In Sri Lanka, adolescents account for about one fifth of the population. Cur...

    Authors: Udena Ruwindu Attygalle, Hemamali Perera and Bernard Deepal Wanniarachchi Jayamanne
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:38
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  9. The mortality rate of young offenders is high. Furthermore, mortality in young offenders is associated with psychiatric and substance use disorders. The primary aim of this national register-based follow-up st...

    Authors: Nina Lindberg, Jouko Miettunen, Anni Heiskala and Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:37
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  10. Different psychosocial factors might have an impact on suicidal behaviour and evidence shows that there may be an association between monthly, diurnal and circadian changes and suicidal behaviours.

    Authors: Türkan Akkaya-Kalayci, Nestor D. Kapusta, Thomas Waldhör, Victor Blüml, Luise Poustka and Zeliha Özlü-Erkilic
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:35
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  11. Adaptive behavior can be impaired in different neurodevelopmental disorders and may be influenced by confounding factors, such as intelligence quotient (IQ) and socioeconomic classification. Our main objective...

    Authors: Carolina Grego Del Cole, Sheila Cavalcante Caetano, Wagner Ribeiro, Arthur Melo E. e. Kümmer and Andrea Parolin Jackowski
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:40
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  12. To examine associations between health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and anxiety symptoms across anxiety domains (obsessions/compulsions, social anxiety, panic disorder, agoraphobia, separation anxiety, phys...

    Authors: Solfrid Raknes, Ståle Pallesen, Joseph A. Himle, Jon Fauskanger Bjaastad, Gro Janne Wergeland, Asle Hoffart, Kari Dyregrov, Åshild Tellefsen Håland and Bente Storm Mowatt Haugland
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:33
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  13. The majority of studies on the associations between breastfeeding and cognitive functioning have focused on IQ, with only a few investigating learning skills, and none of the latter adjusting for maternal IQ. ...

    Authors: Johanna Inhyang Kim, Bung-Nyun Kim, Jae-Won Kim, Soon-Beom Hong, Min-Sup Shin, Hee Jeong Yoo and Soo-Churl Cho
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:36
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  14. Adolescents living with chronic illnesses engage in health risk behaviors (HRB) which pose challenges for optimizing care and management of their ill health. Frequent monitoring of HRB is recommended, however ...

    Authors: Derrick Ssewanyana, Moses Kachama Nyongesa, Anneloes van Baar, Charles R. Newton and Amina Abubakar
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:32
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  16. We examined the efficacy of olanzapine/fluoxetine combination (OFC) in improving health-related quality of life (QoL) in the treatment of bipolar depression in children and adolescents.

    Authors: Daniel J. Walker, Melissa P. DelBello, John Landry, Deborah N. D’Souza and Holland C. Detke
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:34
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  17. The prevalence of mood disorders in children is a growing global concern. Omega-3 fatty acids (FA) are emerging as a promising adjuvant therapy for depressive disorder (DD) in paediatric patients. The primary ...

    Authors: Jana Trebatická, Zuzana Hradečná, František Böhmer, Magdaléna Vaváková, Iveta Waczulíková, Iveta Garaiova, Ján Luha, Igor Škodáček, Ján Šuba and Zdeňka Ďuračková
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:30
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  18. Dysfunctional trauma-related cognitions correlate highly with chronic stress. Studies on maltreatment-related cognitions and their predictors in children and adolescents are rare.

    Authors: Anke de Haan, Helene G. Ganser, Annika Münzer, Andreas Witt and Lutz Goldbeck
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:31
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  19. ‘Almajiris’ are children and adolescents sent far away from their homes to study in Islamic schools under the care of Muslim scholars. Over the years, there has been a decline in the capacity of the scholars t...

    Authors: Aishatu Abubakar-Abdullateef, Babatunde Adedokun and Olayinka Omigbodun
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:29
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  20. Several longitudinal studies have shown the partial symptomatic persistence of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in clinic-based samples. However, little is known about the patterns and trajector...

    Authors: Chia-Jui Tsai, Yi-Lung Chen, Hsiang-Yuan Lin and Susan Shur-Fen Gau
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:28
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  21. There is a need to prevent anxiety and depression in young people and mindfulness contains important emotion regulation strategies. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a mindfulness-based therapy, has yet...

    Authors: Rowan Burckhardt, Vijaya Manicavasagar, Philip J. Batterham, Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic and Fiona Shand
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:27
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  22. The stimulant methylphenidate (MPH) and the nonstimulant atomoxetine (ATX) are the most commonly-prescribed pharmacological treatments for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, the drug-spe...

    Authors: Yoko Nakanishi, Toyosaku Ota, Junzo Iida, Kazuhiko Yamamuro, Naoko Kishimoto, Kosuke Okazaki and Toshifumi Kishimoto
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:26
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  23. Self-harm is associated with increased suicide risk, and constitutes a major challenge in adolescent mental healthcare. In the current study, we examined the association between different aspects of adolescent...

    Authors: Asbjørn Junker, Johan Håkon Bjørngaard and Ottar Bjerkeset
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:25
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  24. Infants are the most likely recipients of child welfare services; however, little is known about infants and families who come into contact with the child welfare system and factors that are associated with se...

    Authors: Joanne Filippelli, Barbara Fallon, Nico Trocmé, Esme Fuller-Thomson and Tara Black
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:24
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  25. Discrepancies between multiple informants often create considerable uncertainties in delivering services to youth. The present study assessed the ability of the parent and youth scales of the Strength and Diff...

    Authors: Marcel Aebi, Christine Kuhn, Tobias Banaschewski, Yvonne Grimmer, Luise Poustka, Hans-Christoph Steinhausen and Robert Goodman
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:23
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  26. Discrepancies are often found between child and parent reports of child psychopathology, nevertheless the role of the child’s presenting difficulties in relation to these is underexplored. This study investiga...

    Authors: Kalia Cleridou, Praveetha Patalay and Peter Martin
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:22
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  27. This study aims to investigate the prevalence, correlates and treatment seeking behavior related to ADHD among adolescents from Lebanon.

    Authors: Elias Ghossoub, Lilian A. Ghandour, Fadi Halabi, Pia Zeinoun, Al Amira Safa Shehab and Fadi T. Maalouf
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:20
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  28. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neuropsychiatric disorder among the children. The burden of ADHD or its associated factors in Uganda are not known. The objective of this study was t...

    Authors: Joan Wamulugwa, Angelina Kakooza, Sabrina Bakeera Kitaka, Joyce Nalugya, Mark Kaddumukasa, Shirley Moore, Martha Sajatovic and Elly Katabira
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:18
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  29. Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a behavior of increasing prevalence in adolescents with links to various negative mental health and adjustment outcomes. Poor emotion expression has been linked with NSSI use...

    Authors: Kristel Thomassin, Camille Guérin Marion, Myriam Venasse and Anne Shaffer
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:21
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  30. Stigmatizing attitudes and discriminatory behaviour towards persons with mental illness are known to start in childhood. In Nigeria, it is not unusual to see children taunting persons with mental illness. This...

    Authors: Adeola Oluwafunmilayo Oduguwa, Babatunde Adedokun and Olayinka Olusola Omigbodun
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:19
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  31. To meet the required hours of intensive intervention for treating children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), we developed an automated serious gaming platform (11 games) to deliver intervention at home (GOL...

    Authors: Anne-Lise Jouen, Antonio Narzisi, Jean Xavier, Elodie Tilmont, Nicolas Bodeau, Valentina Bono, Nabila Ketem-Premel, Salvatore Anzalone, Koushik Maharatna, Mohamed Chetouani, Filippo Muratori and David Cohen
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:17
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  33. There are indications that teachers have limited knowledge about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), despite its high prevalence in childhood and its long-term effects on students such as academic...

    Authors: Dupe Lasisi, Cornelius Ani, Victor Lasebikan, Lateef Sheikh and Olayinka Omigbodun
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:15
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  34. The presence of psychiatric morbidity in the child and adolescent age group is demonstrable in various studies conducted in various settings in Kenya. This study set out to determine the psychiatric morbidity ...

    Authors: Judy Wanjiru Kamau, Olayinka O. Omigbodun, Tolulope Bella-Awusah and Babatunde Adedokun
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:14
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  36. Mental health problems (MHPs) in preschoolers are precursors of mental disorders which have shown to be associated with suffering, functional impairment, exposure to stigma and discrimination, as well as enhan...

    Authors: Olga Wlodarczyk, Silke Pawils, Franka Metzner, Levente Kriston, Fionna Klasen and Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:12
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  37. We examined the relationships between mothers’ sense of coherence (SOC) and their child’s social skills development among preschool children, and how this relationship is mediated by mother’s childrearing style.

    Authors: Rikuya Hosokawa, Toshiki Katsura and Miho Shizawa
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:11
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  38. Difficult conditions during childhood can limit an individual’s development in many ways. Factors such as being raised in an at-risk family, child temperamental traits or maternal traits can potentially influe...

    Authors: Anna Sidor, Cristina Fischer and Manfred Cierpka
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:10
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  39. Sex as self-injury has become a concept in Swedish society; however it is a largely unexplored area of research, not yet conceptualized and far from accepted in the research field. The use of sex as a way of a...

    Authors: Cecilia Fredlund, Carl Göran Svedin, Gisela Priebe, Linda Jonsson and Marie Wadsby
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:9
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  40. Attention is currently being drawn to child psychiatric care, most especially in the developed countries. This type of care is still rudimentary in the developing countries. Botswana is one of the African coun...

    Authors: Anthony A. Olashore, Bechedza Frank-Hatitchki and Olorunfemi Ogunwobi
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:8
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  41. Depressive symptoms in the young constitute a public health issue. The current study aims to estimate: (a) the frequency of depressive symptoms in a sample of final grade elementary-school children in Cyprus, ...

    Authors: Sokratous Sokratis, Ζilides Christos, Panagi Despo and Karanikola Maria
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:7
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  42. High rates of psychiatric disorders and comorbidities have been reported in juvenile detainees, and both phenomena are thought to contribute to repeat offending. However, research on this topic has been limite...

    Authors: Johanna Inhyang Kim, Bongseog Kim, Bung-Nyun Kim, Soon-Beom Hong, Dong Woo Lee, Ju-Young Chung, Ji Young Choi, Bum-Sung Choi, Young-Rim Oh and Miwon Youn
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:6
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  43. During the past 50 years, health insurance providers and national registers of mental health regularly report significant increases in the number of mental disorder diagnoses in children and adolescents. Howev...

    Authors: Eva Charlotte Merten, Jan Christopher Cwik, Jürgen Margraf and Silvia Schneider
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:5
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  44. Temperament and character traits of adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injury disorder (NSSI) might differentiate those- with and without comorbid borderline personality disorder (BPD).

    Authors: Taru Tschan, Claudia Peter-Ruf, Marc Schmid and Tina In-Albon
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:4
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  45. The use of restraints in adolescent psychiatric settings requires particular professional, ethical, and legal considerations. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the number of restraint episod...

    Authors: Astrid Furre, Ragnhild Sørum Falk, Leiv Sandvik, Svein Friis, Maria Knutzen and Ketil Hanssen-Bauer
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:3
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  46. This study examined the pathways by which destructive and constructive marital conflict leading to social skills development in preschool children, are mediated through negative and positive parenting practices.

    Authors: Rikuya Hosokawa and Toshiki Katsura
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:2
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  47. Aggression comprises a heterogeneous set of behavioral patterns that aim to harm and hurt others. Empathy represents a potential mechanism that inhibits aggressive conduct and enhances prosocial behavior. Neve...

    Authors: Felix Euler, Célia Steinlin and Christina Stadler
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:1
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  48. The transition from high school to post-secondary education and work is difficult for adolescents on the autism spectrum. Transition planning can be an effective way of supporting adolescents on the autism spe...

    Authors: Megan Hatfield, Marita Falkmer, Torbjorn Falkmer and Marina Ciccarelli
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2016 10:48
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  49. At present, there are no well-validated biomarkers for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The present study used an infrared motion tracking system to monitor and record the movement intensity of...

    Authors: Fenghua Li, Yi Zheng, Stephanie D. Smith, Frederick Shic, Christina C. Moore, Xixi Zheng, Yanjie Qi, Zhengkui Liu and James F. Leckman
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2016 10:47
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  50. Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a frequent and clinically relevant phenomenon in adolescence. Within Europe, Germany has one of the highest prevalence rates in youth with lifetime prevalence ranging between ...

    Authors: Paul L. Plener, Romuald Brunner, Jörg M. Fegert, Rebecca C. Groschwitz, Tina In-Albon, Michael Kaess, Nestor D. Kapusta, Franz Resch and Katja Becker
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2016 10:46
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