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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
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Avoidance habit learning in adolescents and young women with anorexia nervosa: an fMRI study100
Social connectedness and adolescent suicide risk95
Adolescent sleep quality and quantity and educational attainment: a test of multiple mechanisms using sibling difference models72
Unique prediction of developmental psychopathology from genetic and familial risk71
Commentary: Promoting positive mental health during pregnancy—reflections on Lähdepuro et al. (2023)69
Risk factors for nonfatal self‐harm and suicide among adolescents: two nested case–control studies conducted in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink56
Testing the social motivation theory of autism: the role of co‐occurring anxiety56
Impulsivity as key bridge symptoms in cross‐sectional and longitudinal networks of ADHD and ODD56
Co‐development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic trait trajectories from childhood to early adulthood55
Prospective association between evening circadian preference and academic functioning in adolescents: the role of daytime sleepiness53
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Commentary: Cognitive stimulation and executive functions in the prevention and treatment of childhood disorders – reflection on Phillips et al., 202350
Developmental deviation in delay discounting as a transdiagnostic indicator of risk for child psychopathology47
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) study47
Predictive and incremental validity of adolescent callous‐unemotional traits: longitudinal prediction of antisocial and social outcomes in early adulthood41
Parent–child coregulation as a dynamic system: a commentary on Wass et al. (2024)41
Obsessive‐compulsive disorder in children and youth: neurocognitive function in clinic and community samples41
Psychoneuroendocrine stress response in female and male youth with major depressive disorder40
Editorial Perspective: Reducing mental health disparities among underserved youth: using technology to equip parents as agents of change39
A prospective study of the relative contribution of adolescent peer support quantity and quality to depressive symptoms38
Annual Research Review: Neuroimmune network model of depression: a developmental perspective38
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Annual Research Review: Early conduct problems – precursors, outcomes, and etiology37
Editorial: ‘The giant’s shoulders’: understanding Michael Rutter’s impact on science and society37
The role of comorbid childhood mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions in the persistence of ADHD symptoms: systematic review and meta‐analysis37
Commentary on ‘Grandparental care and child mental health: a systematic review and meta‐analysis37
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Shorter night‐time sleep duration and later sleep timing from infancy to adolescence35
Practitioner Review: It's time to bridge the gap – understanding the unmet needs of consumers with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic review and recommendations33
Treatments with versus without medication for children with behavioural difficulties in clinical practice: an economic evaluation with observational data33
Characterizing the ASD–ADHD phenotype: measurement structure and invariance in a clinical sample32
Annual Research Review: Cash transfer programs and young people's mental health – a review of studies in the United States31
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Gut mycobiome dysbiosis and its impact on intestinal permeability in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder31
Research Review: What we have learned about early detection and intervention of borderline personality disorder30
Latent class analysis to characterize neonatal risk for neurodevelopmental differences29
Competition between the positive youth development and the psychopathological system among adolescents: less vulnerability or more scarring?29
Commentary: Global perspectives on resilience and callous‐unemotional traits – a reflection on Obando et al. (2022)27
The acute effects of community violence on young children's regulatory, behavioral, and developmental outcomes in a low‐income urban sample in Brazil27
Adding to the neuroimmune network model: A commentary on Nusslock et al. (2024)27
Effects of individual differences, society, and culture on youth‐rated problems and strengths in 38 societies27
Editorial: Innovation in child and adolescent mental health interventions26
Concurrent and longitudinal associations of developmental language disorder with peer victimization in adolescence: evidence from a co‐twin study26
Commentary: Optimism for the future of research on disruptive behaviors – an appreciation of good science as illustrated by Nobakht, Steinsbekk & Wichstrom (2023)26
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Time–frequency and functional connectivity analysis in drug‐naive adolescents with depression based on electroencephalography using a visual cognitive task: A comparative study25
A multivariate genetic analysis of anxiety sensitivity, environmental sensitivity and reported life events in adolescents24
Navigating early risks: Differential outcomes in middle childhood and the compensatory role of kindergarten experiences24
Not in education, employment and training: pathways from toddler difficult temperament24
Infant and preschool attachment, continuity and relationship to caregiving sensitivity: findings from a new population‐based Australian cohort24
Testing different sources of environmental unpredictability on adolescent functioning: ancestral cue versus statistical learning and the role of temperament24
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
Commentary: Will genomics revolutionise research on gene–environment interplay?24
Categorical and dimensional approaches to the developmental relationship between ADHD and irritability24
Association between infant feeding and ADHD development in childhood: a birth cohort study in Taiwan24
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Practitioner Review: Neurobiological consequences of childhood maltreatment – clinical and therapeutic implications for practitioners23
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Editorial: The critical need to assess pubertal development in studies of child and adolescent psychopathology23
Advancing the treatment of anxiety disorders in transition‐age youth: a review of the therapeutic effects of unconscious exposure23
Research Review: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of sex differences in narrow constructs of restricted and repetitive behaviours and interests in autistic children, adolescents, and a23
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 conditions22
Expansion and commentary on a two generation approach to prenatal opioid exposure – a commentary on Conradt et al. (2023)22
Research Review: Help‐seeking intentions, behaviors, and barriers in college students – a systematic review and meta‐analysis22
Anxiety symptom trajectories from treatment to 5‐ to 12‐year follow‐up across childhood and adolescence22
Depression in 3/6‐year‐old children: clinical and psychosocial outcomes in later childhood and adolescence22
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Adolescent eating behaviours: associations with autistic and ADHD traits in childhood and the mediating role of anxiety21
Longitudinal relations between impaired executive function and symptoms of psychiatric disorders in childhood21
Subclinical hypomania, psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diagnoses: phenotypic and aetiological overlap21
Multi‐level predictors of depression symptoms in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study21
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How are children's perceptions of the home environment associated with a general psychopathology factor across childhood?21
Editorial: The near ubiquity of comorbidity – what are the implications for children’s mental health research and practice?21
Annual Research Review: Perspectives on progress in ADHD science – from characterization to cause20
Editorial Perspective: A systems approach to addressing young people's mental health20
Gender diversity is correlated with dimensional neurodivergent traits but not categorical neurodevelopmental diagnoses in children20
Atypical cerebellar functional connectivity at 9 months of age predicts delayed socio‐communicative profiles in infants at high and low risk for autism20
Mental health and social difficulties of late‐diagnosed autistic children, across childhood and adolescence20
Annual Research Review: What processes are dysregulated among emotionally dysregulated youth? – a systematic review20
Parenting and adolescent anxiety within families: a biweekly longitudinal study20
Editorial Perspective: How can we develop effective and timely interventions for young people with chronic loneliness?20
Translating the nuanced risk for substance use among adolescents treated for attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) into clinical practice: a commentary on McCabe et al. (2023)20
Characteristics of children with a psychiatric disorder in 1999, 2004 and 2017: an analysis of the national child mental health surveys of England20
Perceived sleep quality predicts aggressive offending in adolescence and young adulthood19
Network analysis of ecological momentary assessment identifies frustration as a central node in irritability19
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Current evidence and opportunities in child and adolescent public mental health: a research review19
Paternal perinatal stress is associated with children's emotional problems at 2 years19
START NOW: a cognitive behavioral skills training for adolescent girls with conduct or oppositional defiant disorder – a randomized clinical trial19
Neural correlates of children with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder symptoms: large‐scale neuroanatomical analysis of a paediatric population19
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)18
Social media component effects: a commentary on Maheux et al. (2024)18
Adolescent functional network connectivity prospectively predicts adult anxiety symptoms related to perceived COVID‐19 economic adversity18
Commentary: The global prevalence of depression and anxiety symptoms among college students and its influencing factors – a commentary on Li et al. (2022)18
Using machine‐learning methods to identify early‐life predictors of 11‐year language outcome18
Research Review: Sex differences in the clinical correlates of nonsuicidal self‐injury in adolescents – a systematic review18
Research Review: Siblings matter. A multi‐level meta‐analysis on the association between cannabis use among adolescent siblings17
The impact of COVID‐19 on psychiatric clinical encounters among low‐income racially‐diverse children17
Editorial Perspective: On the need for clarity about attachment terminology16
Oral language enrichment in preschool improves children's language skills: a cluster randomised controlled trial16
Understanding the relationship between social camouflaging in autism and safety behaviours in social anxiety in autistic and non‐autistic adolescents16
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 data16
Sudden gains in modular CBT for mental health disorders in children and young people with epilepsy16
Time after time: failure to identify and support females with ADHD – a Swedish population register study16
Destigmatizing perceptions about Black adolescent depression: randomized controlled trial of brief social contact–based video interventions16
Correction to “Peer contagion dynamics in the friendships of children with ADHD15
Parent‐ and teacher‐reported associations from adolescent bifactor models of psychopathology: an outcome‐wide association study of 26 outcomes in mid‐life15
Annual Research Review: A systematic review of mental health services for emerging adults – moulding a precipice into a smooth passage15
The association between temperament and polygenic score for psychopathology from infancy to middle childhood15
Editorial: Using parenting interventions as treatments and brain development – are we at the end of the beginning yet?15
Different sensory dimensions in infancy are associated with separable etiological influences and with autistic traits in toddlerhood15
Impact of a Pediatric Mental Health Crisis Service in the emergency department on hospital resource utilization: an interrupted time series analysis14
Neuroimaging biomarkers in school‐aged children with autism: MRI‐measured lipid content in the limbic system14
Internet‐delivered therapist‐assisted cognitive therapy for adolescent social anxiety disorder (OSCA): a randomised controlled trial addressing preliminary efficacy and mechanisms of action14
Not screens but their context of use impact cognitive development: a commentary on Yang et al. (2023)14
A randomized controlled trial of technology‐enhanced behavioral parent training: sustained parent skill use and child outcomes at follow‐up14
Evocative effects of children's education‐associated genetics on maternal parenting: results from the Norwegian mother, father and child cohort study14
Detecting adolescent depression through passive monitoring of linguistic markers in smartphone communication14
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 benefits14
Replication of a predictive model for youth ADHD in an independent sample from a developing country14
Patterns of maladaptive exercise behavior from ages 14–24 in a longitudinal cohort14
Predictors of Environmental Sensitivity in Syrian refugee children14
Brief digital psychological intervention to prevent relapse of non‐suicidal self‐injury behavior in adolescents: A randomized controlled trial14
Instrumental learning and behavioral persistence in children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity‐disorder: does reinforcement frequency matter?14
Genetic and environmental influences on temperament development across the preschool period13
Practitioner Review: Dyadic teacher–child relationships: comparing theories, empirical evidence and implications for practice13
Daily fluctuations in adolescents' sleep predict next‐day attention, sleepiness, and fatigue: an ecological momentary assessment study over 28 days13
The Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme is associated with lasting improvements in children's language and reading skills13
Polygenic risk score and peer victimisation independently predict depressive symptoms in adolescence: results from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Children Development13
Integrative analysis of genomic and exposomic influences on youth mental health13
Parent‐child interaction at age 5 months: genetic and environmental contributions and associations with later socio‐communicative development13
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?13
Twenty‐year longitudinal birth cohort study of individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder before seven years of age13
Do meaningful dimensions of childhood adversity exist? Data‐driven evidence from two prospective cohort studies13
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 trial13
More time awake after sleep onset is linked to reduced ventral striatum response to rewards in youth with anxiety13
The intergenerational impact of mothers and fathers on children's word reading development13
Predictors of language regression and its association with subsequent communication development in children with autism13
Self‐ and co‐regulation of physiological activity during mother‐daughter interactions: The role of adolescent non‐suicidal self‐injury13
Taking stock of the present and looking to the future of ADHD research: a commentary on Sonuga‐Barke et al. (2023)12
Dynamics of depression symptoms in adolescents during three types of psychotherapy and post‐treatment follow‐up12
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Unraveling psychosis risk in sexual minorities: temporal dynamics of social defeat and suspiciousness in adolescence12
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Capturing change in restricted and repetitive behaviour in preschoolers with ASD: A comparison of direct behavioural observation and parent report12
Altered theta–beta ratio in infancy associates with family history of ADHD and later ADHD‐relevant temperamental traits12
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Early relational origins of Theory of Mind: A two‐study replication12
Irritability and rejection‐elicited aggression in adolescents and young adults12
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Intergenerational effects of the Fast Track intervention on the home environment: A randomized control trial12
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Taking theory of mind research into much needed new terrain – a commentary on Kochanska et al. (2025)11
Practitioner Review: Clinical utility of the QbTest for the assessment and diagnosis of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic review and meta‐analysis11
The role of pubertal development in the association between trauma and internalising symptoms in female youth11
Maternal mental health mediates the effects of pandemic‐related stressors on adolescent psychopathology during COVID‐1911
Editorial: Qualitative contributions to translational science – Practical pointers towards methodological pluralism in child psychology and psychiatry11
An online, father‐inclusive parenting intervention for reducing child conduct problems: a randomised controlled trial of family man11
The interaction between polygenic risk and environmental influences: A direct test of the 3P model of insomnia in adolescents11
Impaired sensory–motor integration in children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder during visual search11
Interactions between infant characteristics and parenting factors rarely replicate across cohorts and developmental domains11
Research Review: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of infant and toddler temperament as predictors of childhood attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder11
The social skills of autistic boys in preschool: the contributions of their dyadic and triadic interactions with their parents11
Temperament and executive functioning correlates of ADHD symptom severity during early versus middle childhood11
Editorial Perspective: Another look at ‘optimal outcome’ in autism spectrum disorder11
Corrigendum for ‘Annual Research Review: The contributions of the RDoC research framework on understanding the neurodevelopmental origins, progression and treatment of mental illnesses’ by 11
Connecting the dots: social networks in the classroom and white matter connections in the brain11
Peer contagion dynamics in the friendships of children with ADHD11
Testing reciprocal associations between child anxiety and parenting across early interventions for inhibited preschoolers11
Editorial perspective: Leaving the baby in the bathwater in neurodevelopmental research10
Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US population over the past 75 years10
Prediction of early‐onset bipolar using electronic health records10
Response to uncertainty in developmental origins of health and disease research: commentary on Nomura et al. (2022)10
A symptom level perspective on reactive and proactive aggressive behaviours and ADHD symptoms in childhood10
Adolescent psychotic experiences before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic: a prospective cohort study10
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Applying autism screening research to real‐world scenarios: a commentary on Sheldrick et al. (2023)10
The developmental psychopathology of detection and dual control – a commentary on Fox et al. (2023)10
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
Psychostimulant treatment uniquely reduces left uncinate fasciculus microstructural integrity in ADHD youth with a familial risk for bipolar I disorder: a 12‐week DTI study10
The longitudinal role of sleep on self‐harm during adolescence: A birth cohort study10
Editorial Perspective: Rapid responses to understand and address children and young people’s mental health in the context of COVID‐1910
Sensory hyperacusis as a predictor of anxiety in adolescence10
Research Reviews: Advances in methods for evaluating child and adolescent mental health interventions10
Research Review: Neuropsychological functioning in young anorexia nervosa: A meta‐analysis10
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