Featured ACAMH Papers
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Transdiagnostic profiles of behaviour and communication relate to academic and socioemotional functioning and neural white matter organisation
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Behavioural and language difficulties co-occur in multiple neurodevelopmental conditions. Our understanding of these problems has arguably been slowed by an overreliance on study designs that compare diagnostic groups and fail to capture the overlap across different neurodevelopmental disorders and the heterogeneity within them”. Silvana Mareva (pic) et al.
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The potential moderating role of living in a conflict area on the link between classroom psychosocial stressors, perceived stress and change in anxiety symptoms in Israeli school children
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “Perceived stress associated with relational victimization from peers and conflictual relations with the teacher have been linked with the development of anxiety symptoms in children”. Pia Behnsen et al.
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Research Review: Effects of parenting programs for children’s conduct problems on children’s emotional problems – a network meta-analysis
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Specific programs are often implemented for specific child mental health problems, while many children suffer from comorbid problems”. John Kjøbli(pic) et al.
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Developmental co-occurrence of psychopathology dimensions in childhood
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “Here, we aim to determine whether and to what extent directional relationships between psychopathology dimensions within-person, and between individuals within families, play a role in comorbidity”. Andrea G. Allegrini (pic) et al
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Increased diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder despite stable hyperactive/inattentive behaviours: evidence from two birth cohorts of Australian children
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “We directly compared ADHD diagnoses with ADHD-related behaviours and looked for changes across time among Australian children in a large, population-based prospective cohort study”. Luise Kazda (pic) et al.
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Preschool development, temperament and genetic liability as early markers of childhood ADHD: A cohort study
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “The present study sets out to identify early markers and developmental characteristics during the first 30 months of life that are associated with ADHD 6 years later”. Esther Tobarra-Sanchez (pic) et al.,
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Editorial: Polygenic risk scores and early manifestations of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “Results from a series of multilevel random-effects meta-analyses suggested that pre-school children with current or later-emerging ADHD are likely to experience difficulties in multiple neurocognitive and behavioural functions”. Henrik Larsson (pic) and Guilherme V. Polanczyk
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Editorial Perspective: Are treatments for childhood mental disorders helpful in the long run? An overview of systematic reviews
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Mental disorders may have severe consequences for individuals across their entire lifespan, especially when they start in childhood. Effective treatments (both psychosocial and pharmacological) exist for the short-term treatment of common mental disorders in young people”. Annelieke M. Roest (pic) et al.
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Tonic and phasic irritability in 6-year-old children: differential correlates and outcomes
Paper from the JCPP – “Irritability is a common and clinically important problem in children and adolescents and a risk factor for later psychopathology and impairment”. Jamilah Silver et al. (Authors include Gabrielle A. Carlson (pic))
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Commentary: Will genomics revolutionise research on gene–environment interplay?
Open Access from the JCPP – “The synthesis of quantitative genetics and molecular genetics is transforming research in the behavioural sciences”. Robert Plomin (pic) and Essi Viding
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