OBJECTIVE Irritability is genetically influenced and is associated with internalizing and externalizing psychopathology. However, little is known about the etiology of the development of irritability in the preschool period. The present study examined this from rank-order stability and developmental trajectories perspectives. METHOD The irritability of 310 same-sex twin pairs (monozygotic = 123; dizygotic = 187;

OBJECTIVE Experts have called for tools to enhance the effectiveness and acceptability of youth psychotherapy, such as methods designed to increase clinician-client alignment. Transdiagnostic youth psychotherapies, such as Modular Approach to Therapy for Children (MATCH), may be particularly strong candidates for these methods, as they involve complex decision-making processes that influence treatment

OBJECTIVE The family environment of adolescents with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is under researched. The current study aimed to investigate family psychiatric history, as well as parental distress, rearing practices, accommodation of appearance concerns, and appearance messages in a clinical sample of adolescents with BDD. METHOD Twenty-six adolescents (12-17 years) with BDD were compared to 27

OBJECTIVE This study used latent profile analyses to (1) identify heterogeneous patterns of sleep profiles; (2) examine how discrimination was related to sleep profiles; and (3) investigate how developmental outcomes varied across sleep profiles among ethnically-racially minoritized adolescents. METHOD Participants were 350 ethnically-racially minoritized adolescents (69% female; 22% Black-African

OBJECTIVE This study examined youth-serving community mental health clinicians' multicultural counseling knowledge and awareness and their perceived barriers and facilitators in discussing race and racism with clients. Additionally, the study explored how clinicians' knowledge and awareness were related to their reports of barriers and facilitators in addressing race and racism. METHODS The current

Conduct disorder (CD) is a psychiatric diagnosis characterized by a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate social norms or rules are violated. This article presents information on CD with an emphasis on a new multispecifier personality model that could offer a valuable new perspective on CD by refining the way we specify CD. The multispecifier

OBJECTIVE Co-occurring anxiety affects 40-80% of autistic individuals; however, little is understood about how anxiety manifests in young autistic children, especially those with intellectual disability (ID), partly due to the paucity of measures designed to assess anxiety symptoms in this population. The present study examined the utility of the Modified Anxiety Dimensional Observation Scale (M-Anx-DOS)

OBJECTIVE Changing Academic Support in the Home for Adolescents with ADHD (CASH-AA) and Medication Integration Protocol (MIP) are two family-based behavioral protocols designed to promote family solutions to academic problems and medication decision-making. Building on a randomized control trial examining these protocols, the current study examined how protocol dose, an indicator of treatment adherence

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) youth experience known inequities in mental health outcomes, including depression and suicidality. The Promoting Wellbeing & Resi...

OBJECTIVE Youth disruptive behavior disorders (DBDs) have a male preponderance, but the extent to which gender biases in clinical assessment influence this imbalance remains unclear. The present study investigates whether a child patient's gender affects clinicians' diagnostic decision-making regarding Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Conduct Dissocial Disorder (CDD), and Intermittent Explosive

OBJECTIVE To examine differences in parenting factors among caregivers with children with and without externalizing behavior problems (EBP) in a community homeless shelter sample versus a stable housing sample. METHOD Nine hundred and fourteen children (ages = 2.01-7.49 years, SD = 1.45 years, 40.8% female, 54.3% Black, 46.7% Hispanic) were recruited from a service-driven research project in a shelter

OBJECTIVE Impulsivity has been recognized as an important factor in suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs). However, previous research linking impulsivity to STBs has largely relied on cross-sectional designs, considered only a subset of impulsivity measures, and typically focused on middle-to-older adolescents. Here, we explored multiple measures of impulsivity and assessed their predictive relation

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to provide an updated examination of the adolescent Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) literature and synthesize study findings across treatment settings (e.g. inpatient, outpatient, school), and treatment levels (e.g. clinical intervention, targeted, universal prevention). We also provide meta-analytic findings of the impact of

OBJECTIVE Regularly administering outcome measures, measurement-based care (MBC), informs clinical decision-making and improves youth mental health. Understanding predictors of high-fidelity MBC delivery helps ensure all youth can benefit from this evidence-based practice. Research on client and clinician predictors of MBC fidelity has mixed findings. METHOD Participants included 53 clinicians and

OBJECTIVE This evidence-based update (EBU) builds on three previous reviews (1998, 2008, 2017) sponsored by the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology with the aim of evaluating the empirical support for psychosocial interventions for depression in youth. METHOD In the current review period (2014-2022), 25 randomized controlled trials (RCT) were identified: four in children and 21 in adolescents

Current models of depression risk in children include both family history and cognitive models of risk; however, these models are rarely integrated. This study aimed to address this gap by examinin...

Suicidal individuals experience ambivalent states where they simultaneously consider death and the continuation of their lives. But we have little understanding of how suicidal individuals, particu...

We reviewed the available evidence on psychosocial treatments for disruptive behaviors in children, as an update to Kaminski and Claussen (2017), focusing on children up to age 12 years. Search str...

Self-regulation abilities in childhood are predictive of a range of challenges later in life, making it important to identify difficulties in this area as early as possible. Autistic children and t...

Suicidal thoughts and behaviors are a leading cause of death, injury, and hospitalization among adolescents. Few evidence-based interventions exist, and these tend to be inaccessible for most youth...

This pre-registered analysis aimed to examine the moderating role of nicotine-use motives on the association between minority stress and nicotine use and craving among sexual minority youth.Data st...

Parent–Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is a parenting program in which caregivers must achieve “skill criteria” in using Do Skills and avoiding Don’t Skills to complete treatment. Despite PCIT’s e...

Black American adolescents are beleaguered with the most frequent and severe experiences of racial discrimination (RD) among their peers. To protect Black adolescents’ mental health and development...

The clinical decisions and actions of evidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP) are largely underspecified and poorly understood, in part due to the lack of measurement methods. We tested the re...

Published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (Vol. 53, No. 4, 2024)

Self-guided digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) teaching empirically supported skills (e.g. behavioral activation) have demonstrated efficacy for improving youth mental health, but we lack ...

Published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (Vol. 53, No. 4, 2024)

Published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (Vol. 53, No. 4, 2024)

Published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (Vol. 53, No. 4, 2024)

Published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (Vol. 53, No. 4, 2024)

Published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (Vol. 53, No. 4, 2024)

Published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (Vol. 53, No. 4, 2024)

Published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (Vol. 53, No. 4, 2024)

Published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (Vol. 53, No. 4, 2024)

Published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (Vol. 53, No. 4, 2024)

We call for clinical trials researchers to carefully consider questions about use of intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis and per protocol analysis. We discuss how questions about efficacy and mechani...

The current observational study examined shared decision-making (SDM) with caregivers of Latinx youth within the delivery of multiple evidence-based practices (EBPs) in community mental health serv...

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth service use increased. However, little research has compared the efficacy of individual cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for youth with anxiety a...

This mixed-methods study examined teachers’ perceptions of student anxiety in urban elementary schools serving predominantly low-income and ethnically/racially minoritized youth.Most participating ...

Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome (CDS; previously called Sluggish Cognitive Tempo) refers to a constellation of cognitive and motor behaviors characterized by a predisposition toward mind wandering...

This is a commentary on Danielson and colleagues’ report entitled “ADHD Prevalence Among U.S. Children and Adolescents in 2022: Diagnosis, Severity, Co-Occurring Disorders, and Treatment,” which pr...

The current study investigated sex differences in longitudinal associations among youth depression, conduct problems, and peer rejection from ages 11 to 16. We hypothesized that girls would follow ...

Despite advances in clinical science, the burden of mental health problems among youth is not improving. To tackle this burden, clinical science with youth needs methods that include youth and fami...

Although the significance of the general factor of psychopathology (p) is being increasingly recognized, it remains unclear how to best operationalize and measure p. To test variations in the opera...

To provide updated national prevalence estimates of diagnosed attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), ADHD severity, co-occurring disorders, and receipt of ADHD medication and behavioral t...

While Black adolescent girls use drugs at much lower rates than White and Hispanic girls, Black adolescent girls often have worse health outcomes due to drug use. This study seeks to highlight the ...

Although life stress has been linked to adolescent suicidal ideation, most past research has been cross-sectional, and potential processes characterizing this relation remain unclear. One possibili...

There is limited evidence for the effectiveness of mental health promotion interventions in low- and middle-income settings, especially for longer-term benefits. This study evaluates the 5-month fo...