Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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Perinatal hardship and infant neurodevelopment: insights from a global pandemic343
Avoidance habit learning in adolescents and young women with anorexia nervosa: an fMRI study129
Predictive and incremental validity of adolescent callous‐unemotional traits: longitudinal prediction of antisocial and social outcomes in early adulthood115
Can a low‐intensity evidence‐based parenting seminar series promote the mental health and wellbeing of children and families? A cluster randomised trial101
Psychoneuroendocrine stress response in female and male youth with major depressive disorder77
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Parent–child coregulation as a dynamic system: a commentary on Wass et al. (2024)66
Commentary: Cognitive stimulation and executive functions in the prevention and treatment of childhood disorders – reflection on Phillips et al., 202360
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Co‐development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic trait trajectories from childhood to early adulthood58
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A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of Well Parent Japan in routine care in Japan: The training and nurturing support for mothers (TRANSFORM) study54
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Editorial Perspective: Reducing mental health disparities among underserved youth: using technology to equip parents as agents of change52
Commentary: Promoting positive mental health during pregnancy—reflections on Lähdepuro et al. (2023)45
Prospective association between evening circadian preference and academic functioning in adolescents: the role of daytime sleepiness44
Impulsivity as key bridge symptoms in cross‐sectional and longitudinal networks of ADHD and ODD43
Testing the social motivation theory of autism: the role of co‐occurring anxiety43
Risk factors for nonfatal self‐harm and suicide among adolescents: two nested case–control studies conducted in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink42
Social connectedness and adolescent suicide risk41
Unique prediction of developmental psychopathology from genetic and familial risk40
A prospective study of the relative contribution of adolescent peer support quantity and quality to depressive symptoms40
Adolescent sleep quality and quantity and educational attainment: a test of multiple mechanisms using sibling difference models40
Annual Research Review: Neuroimmune network model of depression: a developmental perspective40
Developmental deviation in delay discounting as a transdiagnostic indicator of risk for child psychopathology39
The acute effects of community violence on young children's regulatory, behavioral, and developmental outcomes in a low‐income urban sample in Brazil38
Adding to the neuroimmune network model: A commentary on Nusslock et al. (2024)38
Annual Research Review: Cash transfer programs and young people's mental health – a review of studies in the United States36
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Editorial: Innovation in child and adolescent mental health interventions35
Effects of individual differences, society, and culture on youth‐rated problems and strengths in 38 societies35
Time–frequency and functional connectivity analysis in drug‐naive adolescents with depression based on electroencephalography using a visual cognitive task: A comparative study34
Commentary: Global perspectives on resilience and callous‐unemotional traits – a reflection on Obando et al. (2022)33
Latent class analysis to characterize neonatal risk for neurodevelopmental differences33
Treatments with versus without medication for children with behavioural difficulties in clinical practice: an economic evaluation with observational data33
Editorial: ‘The giant’s shoulders’: understanding Michael Rutter’s impact on science and society31
Commentary on ‘Grandparental care and child mental health: a systematic review and meta‐analysis30
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Gut mycobiome dysbiosis and its impact on intestinal permeability in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder29
Competition between the positive youth development and the psychopathological system among adolescents: less vulnerability or more scarring?29
Shorter night‐time sleep duration and later sleep timing from infancy to adolescence29
Commentary: Optimism for the future of research on disruptive behaviors – an appreciation of good science as illustrated by Nobakht, Steinsbekk & Wichstrom (2023)29
Characterizing the ASD–ADHD phenotype: measurement structure and invariance in a clinical sample29
The role of comorbid childhood mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions in the persistence of ADHD symptoms: systematic review and meta‐analys29
Concurrent and longitudinal associations of developmental language disorder with peer victimization in adolescence: evidence from a co‐twin study28
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Practitioner Review: It's time to bridge the gap – understanding the unmet needs of consumers with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic review and recommendations27
Annual Research Review: Early conduct problems – precursors, outcomes, and etiology27
Research Review: What we have learned about early detection and intervention of borderline personality disorder27
Practitioner Review: Neurobiological consequences of childhood maltreatment – clinical and therapeutic implications for practitioners27
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Commentary: Will genomics revolutionise research on gene–environment interplay?26
Categorical and dimensional approaches to the developmental relationship between ADHD and irritability26
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Not in education, employment and training: pathways from toddler difficult temperament25
Navigating early risks: Differential outcomes in middle childhood and the compensatory role of kindergarten experiences25
Association between infant feeding and ADHD development in childhood: a birth cohort study in Taiwan25
Advancing the treatment of anxiety disorders in transition‐age youth: a review of the therapeutic effects of unconscious exposure24
Socioeconomic status and risk for child psychopathology: exploring gene–environment interaction in the presence of gene–environment correlation using extended families in the Norwegian Mother, Father 24
Depression in 3/6‐year‐old children: clinical and psychosocial outcomes in later childhood and adolescence24
A multivariate genetic analysis of anxiety sensitivity, environmental sensitivity and reported life events in adolescents24
Testing different sources of environmental unpredictability on adolescent functioning: ancestral cue versus statistical learning and the role of temperament24
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Research Review: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of sex differences in narrow constructs of restricted and repetitive behaviours and interests 24
Anxiety symptom trajectories from treatment to 5‐ to 12‐year follow‐up across childhood and adolescence24
Research Review: Help‐seeking intentions, behaviors, and barriers in college students – a systematic review and meta‐analysis24
Infant and preschool attachment, continuity and relationship to caregiving sensitivity: findings from a new population‐based Australian cohort24
Continuity of trajectories of autism symptom severity from infancy to childhood23
Editorial: Unsettling ‘settled’ science – the importance of questioning received wisdom about the causes of mental health and neuro‐developmental conditions23
Editorial: The critical need to assess pubertal development in studies of child and adolescent psychopathology23
Expansion and commentary on a two generation approach to prenatal opioid exposure – a commentary on Conradt et al. (2023)23
Editorial Perspective: A systems approach to addressing young people's mental health23
Translating the nuanced risk for substance use among adolescents treated for attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ) into clinical practice22
Adolescent eating behaviours: associations with autistic and ADHD traits in childhood and the mediating role of anxiety22
Parenting and adolescent anxiety within families: a biweekly longitudinal study22
Subclinical hypomania, psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diagnoses: phenotypic and aetiological overlap22
Editorial: The near ubiquity of comorbidity – what are the implications for children’s mental health research and practice?22
Editorial Perspective: How can we develop effective and timely interventions for young people with chronic loneliness?22
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Annual Research Review: What processes are dysregulated among emotionally dysregulated youth? – a systematic review21
Network analysis of ecological momentary assessment identifies frustration as a central node in irritability21
How are children's perceptions of the home environment associated with a general psychopathology factor across childhood?21
START NOW : a cognitive behavioral skills training for adolescent girls with conduct or oppositional defiant disorder – a randomized clinical trial21
Atypical cerebellar functional connectivity at 9 months of age predicts delayed socio‐communicative profiles in infants at high and low risk for autism21
Characteristics of children with a psychiatric disorder in 1999, 2004 and 2017: an analysis of the national child mental health surveys of England21
Gender diversity is correlated with dimensional neurodivergent traits but not categorical neurodevelopmental diagnoses in children21
The impact of COVID ‐19 on psychiatric clinical encounters among low‐income racially‐diverse children20
Longitudinal relations between impaired executive function and symptoms of psychiatric disorders in childhood20
Multi‐level predictors of depression symptoms in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study20
Sudden gains in modular CBT for mental health disorders in children and young people with epilepsy20
Mental health and social difficulties of late‐diagnosed autistic children, across childhood and adolescence20
Annual Research Review: Perspectives on progress in ADHD science – from characterization to cause20
Paternal perinatal stress is associated with children's emotional problems at 2 years20
Research Review: Siblings matter. A multi‐level meta‐analysis on the association between cannabis use among adolescent siblings19
Research Review: Sex differences in the clinical correlates of nonsuicidal self‐injury in adolescents – a systematic review19
Social media component effects: a commentary on Maheux et al. (2024)19
Neural correlates of children with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder symptoms: large‐scale neuroanatomical analysis of a paediatric population19
Time after time: failure to identify and support females with ADHD – a Swedish population register study19
Understanding the relationship between social camouflaging in autism and safety behaviours in social anxiety in autistic and non‐autistic adolescents19
Editorial: Thinking outside the box – enhancing causal models of neurodevelopmental disorders19
Understanding emotion processing in offspring of mothers with depression – A commentary on Burkhouse and Kujawa (2023)19
Editorial Perspective: On the need for clarity about attachment terminology18
Commentary: The global prevalence of depression and anxiety symptoms among college students and its influencing factors – a commentary on Li et al. (2022)18
Annual Research Review: The impact of Covid‐19 on psychopathology in children and young people worldwide: systematic review of studies with pre‐ and within‐pandemic data18
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Annual Research Review: A systematic review of mental health services for emerging adults – moulding a precipice into a smooth passage18
Adolescent functional network connectivity prospectively predicts adult anxiety symptoms related to perceived COVID ‐19 economic adversity17
Current evidence and opportunities in child and adolescent public mental health: a research review17
Perceived sleep quality predicts aggressive offending in adolescence and young adulthood17
Using machine‐learning methods to identify early‐life predictors of 11‐year language outcome17
Impact of a Pediatric Mental Health Crisis Service in the emergency department on hospital resource utilization: an interrupted time series analysis16
Evocative effects of children's education‐associated genetics on maternal parenting: results from the Norwegian mother, father and child cohort study16
Predictors of Environmental Sensitivity in Syrian refugee children16
Oral language enrichment in preschool improves children's language skills: a cluster randomised controlled trial16
Neuroimaging biomarkers in school‐aged children with autism: MRI ‐measured lipid content in the limbic system16
A randomized controlled trial of technology‐enhanced behavioral parent training: sustained parent skill use and child outcomes at follow‐up16
Brief digital psychological intervention to prevent relapse of non‐suicidal self‐injury behavior in adolescents: A randomized controlled trial16
Destigmatizing perceptions about Black adolescent depression: randomized controlled trial of brief social contact–based video interventions16
Instrumental learning and behavioral persistence in children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity‐disorder: does reinforcement frequency matter?15
Patterns of maladaptive exercise behavior from ages 14–24 in a longitudinal cohort15
The association between temperament and polygenic score for psychopathology from infancy to middle childhood15
Polygenic risk score and peer victimisation independently predict depressive symptoms in adolescence: results from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Children Development15
The intergenerational impact of mothers and fathers on children's word reading development15
Efficacy of guided and unguided web‐assisted self‐help for parents of children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder: A three‐arm randomized controlled trial15
More time awake after sleep onset is linked to reduced ventral striatum response to rewards in youth with anxiety15
Replication of a predictive model for youth ADHD in an independent sample from a developing country15
Not screens but their context of use impact cognitive development: a commentary on Yang et al. (2023)15
Parent‐ and teacher‐reported associations from adolescent bifactor models of psychopathology: an outcome‐wide association study of 26 outcomes in mid‐life15
Different sensory dimensions in infancy are associated with separable etiological influences and with autistic traits in toddlerhood15
Intergenerational effects of the Fast Track intervention on the home environment: A randomized control trial14
Correction to “Peer contagion dynamics in the friendships of children with ADHD14
Editorial: Using parenting interventions as treatments and brain development – are we at the end of the beginning yet?14
Parent‐child interaction at age 5 months: genetic and environmental contributions and associations with later socio‐communicative development14
Internet‐delivered therapist‐assisted cognitive therapy for adolescent social anxiety disorder ( OSCA ): a randomised controlled trial addressing pre14
Editorial Perspective: COVID‐19‐related publications on young people’s mental health – what have been the key trends so far and what should come next?14
Do meaningful dimensions of childhood adversity exist? Data‐driven evidence from two prospective cohort studies14
Self‐ and co‐regulation of physiological activity during mother‐daughter interactions: The role of adolescent non‐suicidal self‐injury14
Genetic and environmental influences on temperament development across the preschool period13
Practitioner Review: Common elements in treatments for youth suicide attempts and self‐harm – a practitioner review based on review of treatment elements associated with intervention benefits13
Detecting adolescent depression through passive monitoring of linguistic markers in smartphone communication13
Predictors of language regression and its association with subsequent communication development in children with autism13
Daily fluctuations in adolescents' sleep predict next‐day attention, sleepiness, and fatigue: an ecological momentary assessment study over 28 days13
Altered theta–beta ratio in infancy associates with family history of ADHD and later ADHD‐relevant temperamental traits13
Practitioner Review: Dyadic teacher–child relationships: comparing theories, empirical evidence and implications for practice13
Twenty‐year longitudinal birth cohort study of individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder before seven years of age13
Integrative analysis of genomic and exposomic influences on youth mental health13
Early relational origins of Theory of Mind: A two‐study replication13
The Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme is associated with lasting improvements in children's language and reading skills13
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Impaired sensory–motor integration in children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder during visual search12
Unraveling psychosis risk in sexual minorities: temporal dynamics of social defeat and suspiciousness in adolescence12
Temperament and executive functioning correlates of ADHD symptom severity during early versus middle childhood12
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Editorial: Qualitative contributions to translational science – Practical pointers towards methodological pluralism in child psychology and psychiatry12
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The social skills of autistic boys in preschool: the contributions of their dyadic and triadic interactions with their parents12
Interactions between infant characteristics and parenting factors rarely replicate across cohorts and developmental domains12
Irritability and rejection‐elicited aggression in adolescents and young adults12
Capturing change in restricted and repetitive behaviour in preschoolers with ASD : A comparison of direct behavioural observation and parent report12
Taking stock of the present and looking to the future of ADHD research: a commentary on Sonuga‐Barke et al. (2023)12
Corrigendum for ‘Annual Research Review: The contributions of the RDoC research framework on understanding the neurodevelopmental origins, progressio12
Testing reciprocal associations between child anxiety and parenting across early interventions for inhibited preschoolers12
Research Review: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of infant and toddler temperament as predictors of childhood attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder12
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Editorial Perspective: Another look at ‘optimal outcome’ in autism spectrum disorder12
Dynamics of depression symptoms in adolescents during three types of psychotherapy and post‐treatment follow‐up12
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An online, father‐inclusive parenting intervention for reducing child conduct problems: a randomised controlled trial of family man12
The role of pubertal development in the association between trauma and internalising symptoms in female youth12
The stability of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule‐2 in children aged 14–36 months with elevated likelihood for autism12
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Taking theory of mind research into much needed new terrain – a commentary on Kochanska et al. (2025)12
Practitioner Review: Clinical utility of the QbTest for the assessment and diagnosis of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic revie11
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Prediction of early‐onset bipolar using electronic health records11
The developmental psychopathology of detection and dual control – a commentary on Fox et al. (2023)11
Research Review: Neuropsychological functioning in young anorexia nervosa: A meta‐analysis11
Connecting the dots: social networks in the classroom and white matter connections in the brain11
Adolescent psychotic experiences before and during the COVID ‐19 pandemic: a prospective cohort study11
Research Reviews: Advances in methods for evaluating child and adolescent mental health interventions11
Peer contagion dynamics in the friendships of children with ADHD11
The interaction between polygenic risk and environmental influences: A direct test of the 3P model of insomnia in adolescents11
Psychostimulant treatment uniquely reduces left uncinate fasciculus microstructural integrity in ADHD youth with a familial risk for bipolar I disord11
Sensory hyperacusis as a predictor of anxiety in adolescence11
Response to uncertainty in developmental origins of health and disease research: commentary on Nomura et al. (2022)11
Attentional biases for sad faces in offspring of mothers with a history of major depression: trajectories of change from childhood to adolescence10
Exposure to prenatal infection and the development of internalizing and externalizing problems in children: a longitudinal population‐based study10
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A symptom level perspective on reactive and proactive aggressive behaviours and ADHD symptoms in childhood10
Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US population over the past 75 years10
Supporting parenting among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: a randomized controlled trial of the caregiver support intervention10
Research Review: Social cognition and everyday social skills in children and adolescents with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a meta‐analysis of case–control studies10
Commentary: The evidence base regarding the long‐term effects of childhood mental disorder treatments needs to be strengthened – reply to Dekkers et al .10
Research Review: Shared and distinct structural and functional brain alterations in adolescents with major depressive disorder – a multimodal meta‐analysis10
Research Review: Pharmacological and non‐pharmacological treatments for adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic review of the literature10
Reciprocal relations between interparental aggression and symptoms of oppositional defiant and conduct disorders: a seven‐wave cohort study of within‐family effects from preschool to adolescence10
Applying autism screening research to real‐world scenarios: a commentary on Sheldrick et al. (2023)10
Editorial perspective: Leaving the baby in the bathwater in neurodevelopmental research10
ADHD medication adherence reduces risk of committing minor offenses in adolescents10
Editorial: Does the polygenic revolution herald a watershed in the study of GE interplay in developmental psychopathology? Some considerations for th10
Editorial Perspective: Rapid responses to understand and address children and young people’s mental health in the context of COVID‐1910
The longitudinal role of sleep on self‐harm during adolescence: A birth cohort study10
Maternal mental health mediates the effects of pandemic‐related stressors on adolescent psychopathology during COVID‐1910
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