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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...