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The 2019 outbreak of COVID-19, a severe acute respiratory infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, triggered a global pandemic with far-reaching consequences. Societies worldwide felt the effects of the virus...
Establishing a primary psychological healthcare system to prevent suicide was eagerly advocated. Such system was developed as a low-cost healthcare framework integrating family, school, and hospitals to provid...
Subclinical disruptive behavior problems often occur during childhood and are a risk factor for developing a mental disorder later in life. To prevent a manifestation of dysfunctional disruptive behavior, earl...
Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) has received increasing attention for its role in the development and maintenance of generalized anxiety. However, little is known about the temporal and causal relationships be...
Clinical assessments rely primarily on patients’ emotional expressions and scale scores. However, due to cognitive differences and the complexity of emotional expression among adolescents, existing assessment ...
Mental health issues in preschool children are a significant public health concern with long-term developmental implications. Understanding how reallocations of time among different 24-hour movement behaviors-...
Bullying has become a significant global health problem due to its high prevalence worldwide and long-term consequences on mental health, including the onset of psychotic symptoms. This study focuses on explor...
During the pandemic, parenting stress and mental health challenges for both parents and children have increased. However, the lasting repercussions for families remain largely unexplored. Additionally, young f...
The diagnosis of personality disorders (PD) in adolescence still poses a challenge. Early diagnosis and targeted intervention are called for, since patients with PD present with severe consequences in terms of...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a significant mental health concern affecting children and adolescents, often resulting from exposure to traumatic events such as violence, natural disasters, or abuse....
It is becoming widely recognized that emotion regulation difficulties are an essential feature present along the continuum from subclinical to clinical Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Yet, it ...
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are strongly associated with mental and physical health problems across the lifespan, emphasizing the critical need for prevention. Sex-specific differences in both the pre...
This study explored the impact of physical exercise on internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors among Chinese middle school students.
Many studies have aimed to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health. However, less research has focused on the changes in symptom clusters of comorbid disorders. To understand the impact...
Among early-onset conduct problems (CP), associated with more disruptive behaviors of greater intensity and stability, several domains have been proposed from a variable-centered perspective to capture their h...
Experiences of medical specialist trainees in psychiatry can be informative for those who seek to improve post-graduate training. This study aimed to explore the experience of child and adolescent psychiatry (...
The Covid-19 pandemic restrictions severely impacted parents’ and children’s mental and physical health. Families with pre-existing stress factors may have been particularly affected. Parental stress following...
This meta-analysis aims to assess the efficacy of behavioral therapy for selective mutism (SM) using the Selective Mutism Questionnaire (SMQ) and School Speech Questionnaire (SSQ).
Depression is a significant issue affecting adolescents’ mental health. While depression research is relatively extensive, studies focusing on left-behind adolescents from single-parent families remain limited...
A growing body of literature suggests that creative arts interventions can effectively support mental health and well-being in young people. We recently reported that after participating in “Creativity Camp”– ...
A positive school climate benefits adolescents in multiple developmental dimensions. However, theoretical frameworks suggest that detrimental parenting practices can trigger adolescents’ negative emotional sta...
This study explores the relationship between cyberbullying, mental health, and sexual minority groups, focusing on the specific impact of cyberbullying on these individuals’ mental wellbeing. Previous researc...
High serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine [5-HT]) blood levels are the most reliable and frequently replicated biomarker for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). However, their differential influence on core ASD sympto...
The increasing urgency to address rising loneliness among adolescents has become a critical issue, underscoring the need for further studies on its association with mental and physical health. The objective wa...
To improve rehabilitation and reduce recidivism, adolescent criminal law provides tailor-made sanctioning in which the emphasis is on the offender’s development. This results in the possibility that juvenile s...
School bullying has become a significant educational and public health issue worldwide. Boarding secondary school students, who live within the school environment and away from familial support, are particular...
Parents’ perceptions of their child’s mental health play a crucial role in their decision to seek mental health services. Additionally, mental health literacy, which includes knowledge about mental health diso...
The primary aim of the present study was to examine the association of four complementary measures—suicidal cognitions, entrapment, mental pain, and depression—with past suicide attempts in early adolescence. ...
Adolescence is a developmental period during which an estimated 75% of mental health problems emerge (Solmi et al. in Mol Psychiat 27:281–295, 2022). This paper reports a feasibility study of a novel indicated...
An explanation for somatic complaints in adolescence assumes that they have the function to express emotional burden if the communication of feelings in important relationships does not work sufficiently. Ther...
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a common phenomenon; a recent meta-analysis of studies conducted among non-clinical adolescents reported a global lifetime prevalence rate of 22.0%. NSSI results in significan...
Research increasingly demonstrates a positive association between Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) and conduct problems among adolescents. However, longitudinal data are limited, and the mediating mechanisms rem...
Unaccompanied young refugees (UYRs) report high rates of post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety, and low mental health service utilization. Studies have examined the experiences of psychotherapists and ...
The original article was published in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2024 18:103
Nocturnal enuresis (NE), a prevalent childhood condition associated with significant emotional morbidity, including anxiety, guilt, and diminished self-esteem. Notably, NE exhibits substantial variability in p...
Previous research has identified growing up in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a protective factor against childhood abuse and neglect compared to growing up in the former Federal Republic of Ge...
Previous research on adolescents’ subjective well-being has not focused on the transition from late adolescence to early adulthood. Moreover, explorations of the factors influencing adolescents’ subjective wel...
Childhood trauma, cognitive biases, neuroticism, and depression have emerged as crucial risk markers for psychotic-like experiences (PLEs). However, the interplay among these variables in influencing the risk ...
Longitudinal studies of associations between executive function (EF) and parenting behaviors during early childhood and resilience, self-regulation, and behavioral problems in school-age children are scarce. T...
Motor disturbance, as a related symptom of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), has not received the attention it deserves. We aimed to investigate the different degrees of motor developmental delay and influencin...
The study aims to investigate whether physical exercise is associated with psychological resilience, thereby significantly affecting adolescent social anxiety, and to analyze the longitudinal cross-temporal st...
Moral distress among healthcare staff is associated with emotional strain and workforce attrition but remains insufficiently explored in child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP). We investigated the experiences a...
The original article was published in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2024 18:146
We tested the utility of showing “selfie” videos to increase adolescents’ climate change hope, agency, and behavioral intentions, and to decrease their climate anxiety.
Traumatic experiences in childhood can have far-reaching and serious consequences for the development of those affected. Little is known about the age- and sex-specific symptom patterns in children and adolesc...
Discrimination increases the risk for adverse mental health in minority populations, with studies showing elevated rates of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in Black adults facing racial discrimination. Yet...
Adolescent depression is increasing globally, and family conflict may contribute to its transmission across generations. However, longitudinal evidence on these dynamics remains sparse. This study examines the...
Increased prevalence of problematic smartphone use (PSU) in adolescents, results in a cycle of interaction between PSU and social anxiety. However, it is still unknown whether PSU and social anxiety symptoms h...
Building upon previous research suggesting that parental psychological flexibility is negatively associate with children’s behavioral problems, this study examined a moderated mediation model to explore the ef...
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