JAACAP ’s Role in Advancing the Science of Pediatric Mental Health and Promoting the Care of Youth and Families During t...
Published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Did Bullying Victimization Decrease After Nationwide School-Based Antibullying Program? A Time-Trend Study.
Published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
We assessed changes in traditional and cyberbullying victimization, and their associations with mental health, before and after the introduction of a nationwide antibullying program in Finnish schools in 2009. This time-trend assessment comprised two methodologically identical cross-sectional survey studies, with 2,061 adolescents in 2008 (response...
Parent-Based Treatment as Efficacious as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Anxiety: A Randomized Noninferiority...
Published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Treatment for childhood anxiety disorders is insufficient in many cases. Parent involvement has been examined to augment child-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), but no studies have compared the efficacy of stand-alone parent-based treatment to CBT. Research implicates family accommodation in the maintenance and course of childhood anxiety. ...
Sensory-to-Cognitive Systems Integration Is Associated With Clinical Severity in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
...Published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Impaired multisensory integration in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may arise from functional dysconnectivity among brain systems. Our study examines the functional connectivity integration between primary modal sensory regions and heteromodal processing cortex in ASD, and whether abnormalities in network integration relate to clinical severity. We...
A Double-Blind Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial of Citalopram Adjunctive to Stimulant Medication in Youth With Chroni...
...Published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Despite the clinical importance of chronic and severe irritability, there is a paucity of controlled trials for its pharmacological treatment. Here, we examine the effects of adding citalopram (CTP) to methylphenidate (MPH) in the treatment of chronic severe irritability in youth using a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled design. After a le...
Editorial: Parent-Based Treatment for Childhood Anxiety.
Published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Anxiety disorders are among the most common psychiatric illnesses in childhood and adolescence.1 The mainstays of treatment for childhood anxiety disorders are cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and medications.2 Both of these treatments focus primarily on the child. However, parents and families often play a major role in the reinforcement of anxi...
Editorial: What Constitutes "Evidence-Based" Educational Practice?
Published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The requirement for educational provision for all children to be evidence based has been highlighted in many government policies.1 The significant additional costs of educating children with autism, and difficulties in recruiting adequately trained teachers, have placed increasing pressure on education authorities to provide more cost-effective ins...
The Association of Paternal IQ With Autism Spectrum Disorders and Its Comorbidities: A Population-Based Cohort Study.
Published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Original case descriptions of autism noted that parents of the affected children tended to be highly educated and intelligent, a characterization that has endured publicly. Recent genetic studies indicate that risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is associated with high intelligence. We examined the association between paternal intelligence and...
Classifying Mood Symptom Trajectories in Adolescents With Bipolar Disorder.
Published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The Course and Outcome of Bipolar Youth study found that children and adolescents with bipolar spectrum disorders followed 1 of 4 distinct mood trajectories over 8 years of follow-up, with as many as 25% of participants showing a predominantly euthymic course. We evaluated whether similar patterns of illness course are observed in adolescents with ...
Editorial: Antidepressants to the Rescue in Severe Mood Dysregulation and Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder?
Published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Children with irritability and outbursts pose a serous therapeutic problem. Many of them have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with emotion dysregulation, which is sometimes captured in the diagnosis of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD). Some follow-up data find a connection between DMDD and depression and anxiety in adul...
