OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry is 4. 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 2020-08-01 to 2024-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in pediatric emergency department visits for mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study	61
Using TikTok for public and youth mental health – A systematic review and content analysis	59
Gender minority stress in trans and gender diverse adolescents and young people	44
The COVID-19 pandemic and obsessive–compulsive disorder in young people: Systematic review	34
Exploring adolescents’ perspectives on social media and mental health and well-being – A qualitative literature review	33
Relationship between sluggish cognitive tempo and sleep, psychological, somatic, and cognitive problems and impairment in children with autism and children with ADHD	28
A systematic review of the experience of being a sibling of a child with an autism spectrum disorder	27
Parenting behaviors, parenting styles, and non-suicidal self-injury in young people: a systematic review	22
Development and psychometric validation of the interRAI ChYMH externalizing subscale	21
A review of risk factors associated with insulin omission for weight loss in type 1 diabetes	21
Not social transition status, but peer relations and family functioning predict psychological functioning in a German clinical sample of children with Gender Dysphoria	20
How adolescents understand their values: A qualitative study	19
Increased prevalence and severity of psychiatric illness in hospitalized youth during COVID-19	19
The tic in TikTok and (where) all systems go: Mass social media induced illness and Munchausen’s by internet as explanatory models for social media associated abnormal illness behavior	18
Psychological distress and resilience in a multicentre sample of adolescents and young adults with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Fear and anxiety in girls aged 7 to 11 years old and related factors during the coronavirus pandemic	17
Thinking about young refugees’ mental health following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022	16
Shifts in demographics and mental health co-morbidities among gender dysphoric youth referred to a specialist gender dysphoria service	15
Music therapy for adolescents with psychiatric disorders: An overview	15
Emotion regulation difficulties and psychopathology among Pakistani adolescents	14
COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on mothers’ and infants’ mental health during pregnancy and shortly thereafter	14
Suicidal and nonsuicidal self-harming thoughts and behaviors in clinically referred children and adolescents with gender dysphoria	14
School refusal and isolation: The perspectives of five adolescent school refusers in London, UK	13
Preterm birth: Educational and mental health outcomes	13
A psychological support group for parents in the care of families with gender diverse children and adolescents	12

Aerobic exercise for adolescent outpatients with persistent major depression: Feasibility and acceptability of moderate to vigorous group exercise in a clinically referred sample	12
Sensation seeking and nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior among adolescent psychiatric patients	12
Association between single session service attendance and clinical characteristics in administrative data	11
The impact of COVID-19 on adolescent psychiatric inpatient admissions	11
Connecting over the internet: Establishing the therapeutic alliance in an internet-based treatment for depressed adolescents	11
Cannabis use among early adolescents and transdiagnostic mental health risk factors	11
Alternatives to mental health admissions for children and adolescents experiencing mental health crises: A systematic review of the literature	11
Using virtual reality to treat aggressive behavior problems in children: A feasibility study	11
Effectiveness of resilience training on social self-efficacy of the elementary school girls during COVID-19 outbreak	10
Attachment to parents and friends and body dissatisfaction in adolescents with eating disorders	10
Efficacy of attachment-based family therapy compared to treatment as usual for suicidal ideation in adolescents with MDD	10
Low carbohydrate diets in eating disorders and type 1 diabetes	10
Preparing for the COVID-19 paediatric mental health crisis: A focus on youth reactions to caretaker death	10
COVID-19 pandemic fears and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in adolescents with pre-existing mental disorders: An exploratory cross-sectional study	10
Prevention and early help for eating disorders in young people with type 1 diabetes	10
Understanding developmental psychopathology in Type 1 diabetes through attachment, mentalisation and diabetes distress	10
Seeing rainbows through the storms of a health condition: Making space for LGBTQ+ young people to have their identity acknowledged	9
A psycho-social analysis of depression, anxiety and student engagement: Effects of parenting practices	9
Paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome: 25 year perspective	9
A nonrandomized trial of a behavioral parent training intervention for parents with children with challenging behaviors: In-person versus internet-HOT DOCS	9
Using informant discrepancies in report of parent–adolescent conflict to predict hopelessness in adolescent depression	9
Digital media use frequency, online behaviors, and risk for negative mental health in adolescents in high-achieving schools	8
The role of adverse childhood experiences and attachment styles in social anxiety disorder in adolescents	8
Clinical Supervision for Support Workers in Paediatric Palliative Care: A Literature Review	8
Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy for adolescents with insomnia comorbid to psychiatric conditions: A non-randomised trial	8
The efficacy of group delivered mentalization-based parenting interventions: A systematic review of the literature	8
Pilot trial of a self-compassion intervention to address adolescents’ social media-related body image concerns	8
Contact with biological parents following placement in foster care: Associations with preschool child externalizing behavior	8
Children’s oppositional defiant disorder symptoms make parents difficult to be nice: Longitudinal association among parent emotion regulation, child emotion regulation and children’s oppositional defi	8
Rationale and methods of the ‘Northern Ireland Youth Wellbeing Survey’ and initial findings from the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire	7
Mental health problems in refugee and immigrant primary school children in Flanders, Belgium	7
Parental autonomy support in relation to preschool aged children’s behavior: Examining positive guidance, negative control, and responsiveness	7
Parental support, marital conflict, and stress as predictors of depressive symptoms among African American adolescents	7
Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Reflections on the last 25 years	7
Delivering clinical evidence-based child–parent interventions for emotional development through a digital platform: A feasibility trial	7
The mediating role of Courageous coping in the relations between spirituality and social support with resilience among adolescents with hemophilia	7
Family therapy for adolescents with depression and suicidal ideation: A systematic review and meta–analysis	7
Growth mindset in young people awaiting treatment in a paediatric mental health service: A mixed methods pilot of a digital single-session intervention	7
Multimodal therapy for rigid, persistent avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) since infancy: A case report	7
Pediatric Avoidant-Restrictive Food Intake Disorder and gastrointestinal-related Somatic Symptom Disorders: Overlap in clinical presentation	7
The process of integrating psychology into medical clinics: Pediatric psychology as an example	7
Identifying and managing eating disorders in type 1 diabetes mellitus: An all-Wales study	7
Mental health of children of health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study	6
Psychological and neuropsychological underpinnings of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder assessment	6
Medical students’ psychological and behavioral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive phenomenological study	6
The Ukraine crisis: Mental health resources for clinicians and researchers	6
Psychological well-being in childhood: The role of trait emotional intelligence, regulatory emotional self-efficacy, coping and general intelligence	6
Exploring the potentially positive interaction between social media and mental health; the perspectives of adolescents	6
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment in functional neurological symptom disorder with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: A study of two cases	6
Coping strategy enhancement for the treatment of distressing voices in young people: A service evaluation within routine clinical practice	6

Mental health literacy websites for children of parents with a mental illness	6
Assessment of digital risks in child and adolescent mental health services: A mixed-method, theory-driven study of clinicians’ experiences and perspectives	6
Feasibility trial of virtual reality exposure therapy for selective mutism	6
The effects of yoga on mental health in school-aged children: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Randomised Control Trials	6
Exploring Behavioural Activation as a treatment for low mood within CAMHS: An IPA study of adolescent experiences	6
Home direct-to-consumer telehealth solutions for children with mental health disorders and the impact of Covid-19	6
Mental health of children and young people since the start of the pandemic	6
Neonatal stress and behavior problems in preschool children born preterm	5
Early detection of anxiety problems in childhood: Spanish validation of the brief Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale for parents	5
Service user engagement by ethnicity groups at a children’s gender identity service in the UK	5
Identifying clinical and psychological correlates of persistent negative symptoms in early-onset psychotic disorders	5
Reliability and validity of the DSM-5 Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children, Adolescents, and Parents-5 in externalizing disorders and common comorbidities	5
Assessment and treatment of mental health conditions in children and adolescents: A systematic scoping review of how virtual reality environments have been used	5
The intergenerational transmission of maternal adverse childhood experiences on offspring’s psychiatric disorder and the mediating role of maternal depression: Results from a cross sectional study	5
Shared or unique trajectories of PTSD and depression in children over time since an earthquake	5
Prevalence and risk factors of mood and anxiety disorders in children and young people: Findings from the Northern Ireland Youth Wellbeing Survey	5
COVID-19 lockdown in Spain: Psychological impact is greatest on younger and vulnerable children	5
The contribution of peer trainers to the Tree of Life project for young people living with Type 1 Diabetes: Building community	5
Influences on help-seeking decisions for behavioral child sleep problems: Why parents do and do not seek help	5
The quest for genuine care: A qualitative study of the experiences of young people who self-harm in residential care	5
Soliciting children’s views on other-perspectives in child mental health assessments	5
The experiences of adolescents diagnosed with functional gastrointestinal disorders: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	5
Psychometric properties of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale in Greek Adolescents	5
Self-evaluation and depression in adolescents with a chronic illness: A systematic review	5
Attachment representations to parents and emotional-behavioral problems: A comparison between children with type 1 diabetes mellitus and healthy children in middle childhood	5
The Integrated Behavior Therapy for Children with Selective Mutism: Findings from an open pilot study in a naturalistic setting	4
Peer loss: Posttraumatic stress, depression, and grief symptoms in a traumatized adolescent community	4
A trial of an emotional intelligence intervention in an Iranian residential institution for adolescents	4
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis exploring how psychiatrists conceptualise conduct disorder and experience making the diagnosis	4
Evaluation of social cognition, autistic traits, and dysmorphology in comorbid specific learning disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	4
Negative life events and internalizing problems among Romanian youth	4
Impact of a single school-based intervention for COVID-19 on improving mental health among Japanese children	4
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Obesity: A One-to-One Correlation?	4
Transition outcomes for young people discharged from adolescent medium secure services in England: A qualitative study exploring adolescents’ and carers’ experiences	4
Adolescent sleep – lessons from COVID-19	4
The experience of sleep problems for adolescents with depression in short-term psychological therapy	4
A narrative-informed evaluation of tree of life for parents of children with physical health conditions	4
Inhibitory Control Training Improves Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Externalizing Behavior	4
Applying online parental guided self-help family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa: A comparison to family-based treatment delivered by videoconferencing	4
Using Theoretical Models of Problematic Internet Use to Inform Psychological Formulation: A Systematic Scoping Review	4
“The effects of family therapeutic interventions on mental health and quality of life of children with cancer: A systematic review”	4
Improving lives not just saying no to substances: Evaluating outcomes for a young people’s substance use team trained in the AMBIT approach	4
Social cognition in first episode adolescent depression and its correlation with clinical features and quality of life	4
Internal conversations, self-reliance and social support in emerging adults transitioning from out-of-home care: An interpretative phenomenological study	4
Association of yogic breathing with perceived stress and conception of strengths and difficulties in teenagers	4
Mentalization in female adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury and alexithymic and depressive features in their parents	4
Family bonds in the midst of adversity: Insights into refugee children’s coping ways	4
Considerations for minority ethnic young people in multisystemic therapy	4
Key socio-demographic characteristics of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria: A British Isles surveillance study	4