OBJECTIVE 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 developmental outcomes from the pernicious impact of discrimination, parents and other proximal adults and peers often utilize racial socialization (RS), or communications and behaviors emphasizing the importance

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...

Historically, much of the progress made in youth mental health research can be classified as focusing on externalizing problems, characterized by disruptive behavior (e.g. aggression, defiance), or...

Recognition of the importance of irritable mood and outbursts has been increasing over the past several decades. This “Future Directions” aims to develop a set of recommendations for future researc...

Parental Friendship Coaching (PFC) teaches parents to coach their children in friendship skills. This paper examines whether PFC fosters positive peer contagion processes (i.e. dyadic mutuality) an...

Mental health promotion interventions are widely implemented in humanitarian settings and low- and middle-income contexts (LMICs), yet evidence on effectiveness is scarce and mixed. This study eval...

Social functioning can be defined according to three main components: social perception, social performance, and social knowledge. Although they are important in daily life relationships and in chi...

Given the large and complex array of suicide risk factors, theoretical frameworks are critical to furthering our understanding of risk. This study prospectively examined several key constructs of t...

Current antibullying programs can reduce overall rates of victimization but appear to overlook processes that give rise to persistent peer victimization. Needed are studies that delineate the inter...

Child behavior problems have been shown to contribute to caregiver distress and vice versa among youth with developmental delay (DD). However, studies have not examined these associations among chi...

Published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (Vol. 53, No. 5, 2024)

Cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS; previously referred to as sluggish cognitive tempo) is a set of behaviors, including excessive mind-wandering, mental fogginess, and hypoactivity, that are se...

Published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Latinx children, youth, and families in the United States have been disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic compared to non-Latinxs, experiencing a higher burden of deaths, economic adv...

A growing body of evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionally affected Latinx children, youth, and families in the United States by increasing the prevalence and incidence of...

Irritability, anger, and aggression have garnered significant attention from youth mental health researchers and clinicians; however, fundamental challenges of conceptualization and measurement per...

Researchers employed two recruitment strategies in a school-based comparative effectiveness trial for students with a diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or autism. This st...

The present study examined how different family level (family financial stress, family violence) and individual (food insecurity, gender, race) determinants of health were associated with mental he...

We sought to explore if specific domains of emotion dysregulation (emotion regulation [EREG], emotional reactivity/lability [EREL], emotion recognition/understanding [ERU], and callous-unemotional ...

We explored racial differences in discrimination, perceived inequality, coping strategies, and mental health among 869 Latinx adolescents (Mage = 15.08) in the US. We then examined the moderating e...

Although a growing body of work has found that parents’ experiences of racial and socioeconomic (SES) based discrimination are directly related to their children’s behavior problems , more work is ...

Irritability, typically defined as a proneness to anger, particularly in response to frustration, falls at the intersection of emotion and disruptive behavior. Despite well-defined translational mo...

Cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) includes excessive daydreaming, mental confusion, and hypoactive behaviors that are distinct from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder inattentive (ADHD-I...

Despite growing evidence demonstrating the association between racial and ethnic discrimination and traumatic stress symptoms in adult populations, the research among youth remains sparse. Drawing ...

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) stigmatization is a key factor related to transgender adolescent mental health. While previous research has focused on direct associations between stigmatization an...

Studies of the genetic and environmental factors that make children more or less likely to develop distressing and impairing psychological problems, and studies of the psychobiological pathways thr...

We evaluated the effects of treatment compliance with the Challenging Horizons Program (CHP) for high school aged adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).Participants were ...

Irritability symptoms are closely associated with, and may reflect, temperament traits, particularly negative affectivity (NA). However, there are few empirical data on the relationships between ch...

Psychosocial and bioregulatory pressures threaten sleep during adolescence. Although recent work suggests that the ubiquity of smartphone use throughout adolescence may also relate to poorer sleep ...

Research on the role of affect in childhood aggression motives has largely focused on domain-level affective traits. Lower-order affective facets may show more distinct relationships with instrumen...

Published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (Vol. 52, No. 6, 2023)

Mental health disparities in transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth are well-documented. These disparities are often studied in the context of minority stress theory, and most of this research ...

Effectiveness trials aim to increase the generalizability and public health impact of interventions. However, challenges associated with this design present threats to external and internal validit...

Sleep is crucial to overall health, playing a complex role in a wide range of mental health concerns in children and adults. Nevertheless, clinicians may not routinely assess sleep problems due to ...

This study tested predicted bidirectional associations between irritability and physical and relational forms of aggression, disentangling theorized within- and between-person effects using latent ...