Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Papers
(The median citation count of Child and Adolescent Mental Health is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Debate: How far can we modify the expression of autism by modifying the environment?70
Narrative Matters: No teen is an island – the cost of finding a tribe through memes and TikToks57
Debate: Social media content moderation may do more harm than good for youth mental health56
Parental death by external causes during childhood and risk of psychiatric disorders in bereaved offspring54
Commentary: A spectrum for all? A response to Green et al. (2023), neurodiversity, autism and health care47
Four Steps To My Future (4STMF): acceptability, feasibility and exploratory outcomes of a universal school‐based mental health and well‐being programme, delivered to young adolescents in South Africa40
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Short Research Article: Do demographic, socioeconomic and clinical characteristics influence the number of psychological intervention sessions attended by young people in need of mental health care?35
Commentary: Technology, power and inequalities – achieving a humane approach to the digital divide – a commentary on Aboujaoude and Gega (2021)34
Measuring goal progress using the goal‐based outcome measure in Jigsaw – A primary care youth mental health service27
Clinical Research Updates26
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Short Research Article: RESEED – the perceived impact of an enhanced usual care model of a novel, teacher‐led, task‐shifting initiative for child mental health21
Cyberbullying among adolescents in Turkey: the relationship between coping strategies and cyberbullying perpetration20
Commentary/Response: Economic evidence should be routinely collected and reported for studies of intervention effectiveness in mental health. A commentary on Vartiainen et al. (2022)20
Debate: Young people with personality disorder should be recognised and appropriately managed20
An additional note on help‐seeking as some gaps are bigger than others: a commentary on ‘Don't mind the gap – why do we not care about the gender gap in mental health?’ Patalay and Demkowicz (2023)18
Editorial: Going through the slippery landscape of conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and help for children in humanitarian crises18
Innovations in Practice: Feasibility and provision of dialectical behavior therapy skills training for adolescents and their families17
Scoping review: potential harm from school‐based group mental health interventions17
‘Everyone needs to know that infant mental health is important’ – a commentary/reflection on ‘Improving access to mental health interventions for children from birth to five years: a scoping review’ (17
Debate: Better use of existing services, not more new pathways, is required for psychosis prevention in young people – Commentary on Salazar de Pablo and Arango: ‘Prevention of psychosis in adolescent17
Commentary: The Signal and the Noise—questioning the benefits of puberty blockers for youth with gender dysphoria—a commentary on Rew et al. (2021)16
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Long‐term impact of a mental health literacy resource applied by regular classroom teachers in a Canadian school cohort16
Editorial: The need for more effective school‐based youth mental health interventions15
Debate: Don't mind the gap – why do we not care about the gender gap in common mental health difficulties?14
Associations between dimensions of mental health literacy and adolescent help‐seeking intentions13
Review: Interventions addressing loneliness amongst university students: a systematic review12
‘The world somehow stopped moving’: impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on adolescent psychiatric outpatients and the implementation of teletherapy12
Narrative Matters: Gustav Mahler – music as a source of meaning and healing in the face of adversity and inequality12
Examining academic self‐concept as a mediator of the relationship between anxiety and depression: A longitudinal study12
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Debate: Inequalities within understanding of Eco Distress11
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Understanding the impact of children's and young people's self‐harm on parental well‐being: a systematic literature review of qualitative and quantitative findings11
Debate: Where to next for universal school‐based mental health interventions? Can research led by young people shape universal solutions for mental health and suicide prevention in school settings?11
Short Research Article: Promoting digital citizenship through a school‐based intervention in early adolescence in Perú (a pilot quasi‐experimental study)11
Clinical research updates11
A qualitative study of young people's lived experiences of suicide and self‐harm: intentionality, rationality and authenticity11
Differences in body mass index trajectories of adolescent psychiatric inpatients by sex, age, diagnosis and medication: an exploratory longitudinal, mixed effects analysis10
Commentary: Climate change worry among adolescents—on the importance of going beyond the constructive–unconstructive dichotomy to explore coping efforts—a commentary on Sciberras and Fernando (2021)10
Debate: Involuntary treatment and detention are a necessary part of mental health care for children and young people – a perspective from an Independent Advocate in England, United Kingdom10
Review: The effectiveness of musical therapy in improving depression and anxiety symptoms among children and adolescents – a systematic review10
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Editorial: Equity, diversity and inclusion in child and adolescent mental health – equality of opportunities should be every child's right and every society's obligation10
Debate: If not us, then who?10
Longitudinal effects of green, blue, and gray spaces on early adolescent mental health in the United States9
Self‐harm, suicidal ideation, depression and peer relationships in transgender and gender diverse adolescents accessing specialist mental health services9
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Editorial Perspective: The digital divide – inequalities in remote therapy for children and adolescents9
Feasibility study of a new behavioural activation programme for young people with depressed mood9
Debate: Responses to commentaries – neurodiversity, autism and healthcare9
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Building Resilience and Attachment in Vulnerable Adolescents (BRAVA): a brief group intervention for adolescents with mild‐to‐moderate suicidal ideation and their caregivers9
Debate: Conduct disorder and the segregation of child mental health8
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Life problems in children and adolescents who self‐harm: findings from the multicentre study of self‐harm in England8
Editorial: Evidence in the real world – the need for context and the gender gap8
The moderation effect of mental health services use on the relationship between exposures to adverse childhood experiences and mental health outcomes among US adolescents7
Assessing the feasibility of a web‐based outcome measurement system in child and adolescent mental health services – myHealthE a randomised controlled feasibility pilot study7
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The burden of mental and behavioral health visits to the pediatric ED: A 3‐year tertiary care center experience7
Clinical Research Updates7
Factors that impact mental health help‐seeking in Australian adolescents: a life‐course and socioecological perspective7
Clinical research updates7
Debate: It is time to stop turning a blind eye to personality disorder in young people7
Debate: How much should nonspecialists be involved in mental health care for children and young people when resources are limited? Working with police forces to improve mental health crisis care for y6
Staff Perspectives: Why are adolescent inpatients secluded and what causes changes in rates of seclusion on a unit?6
Adolescents' problematic internet and smartphone use in (cyber)bullying experiences: A network analysis6
Debate: Academics should collaborate with the technology industry, but not in lieu of noncollaborative research6
Clinical Research Updates6
Home Fae Home: A case study in co‐designing trauma‐informed community spaces with young people in Dundee, Scotland6
Review: School‐based mental health literacy interventions to promote help‐seeking – a systematic review6
Editorial: Open science and methods review for Child and Adolescent Mental Health6
Understanding unusual sensory experiences: a randomised experimental study of a school‐based intervention for adolescents6
Debate: Child and adolescent mental health professionals have a responsibility to diagnose Personality Disorder6
Clinical research updates5
Editorial: Primum non nocere – are adverse events accurately reported in studies on psychological interventions for children?5
Preventing anxiety in the children of anxious parents – feasibility of a brief, online, group intervention for parents of one‐ to three‐year‐olds5
Technology Matters: Online Support and Intervention (OSI) for child anxiety problems – an example of the journey from research to practice5
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Debate: How much should nonspecialists be involved in mental health care when resources are limited? A perspective from low‐ and middle‐income countries5
Narrative Matters: Ursula Le Guin's writings and adolescence5
Commentary: Proactive practices to support youth coping with climate change – a commentary on Martin et al. (2021)5
Debate: “The‐Diagnosis‐That‐Must‐Not‐Be‐Named” – Professionals' fear of BPD is failing their patients5
Commentary: Did the internet cause an increase in the prevalence of mental disorders? – A commentary on Aboujaoude and Gega (2021)5
Commentary: Considering nomenclature for autism – aligning with the language preferences of the autistic community – a commentary on Kehinde et al. (2021)5
Editorial Perspective: What do we need to know about the manosphere and young people's mental health?5
Long‐term outcome of intensive home treatment for children and adolescents with mental health problems – 4 years after a randomized controlled clinical trial5
Editorial: Socio‐economic inequality and child and adolescent mental health5
Review: Young people's recovery processes from mental health problems – a scoping review5
Response: “The Signal and the Noise”—a response to Clayton et al. (2021)5
Barriers and facilitators of implementation of evidence‐based interventions in children and young people's mental health care – a systematic review5
Review: System transformation to enhance transitional age youth mental health – a scoping review5
Debate: ‘Neurodiversity’ – has it outrun its usefulness?4
Associations between parental socioeconomic status and mental health in Chinese children: the mediating roles of parenting practices4
Review: Unaccompanied refugee minors’ perception of mental health services and professionals: a systematic review of qualitative studies4
Debate: Urban versus rural environments – which is better for mental health? The one good thing about a small town…4
Short Research Article: Changes in life functioning in a self‐help, online program for child and adolescent anxiety4
Debate: Involuntary treatment – not whether, but when and what else is needed4
Commentary: Who gets the credit for “discovering” ADHD and what is the question, really?4
Coping with peer suicidality, help‐seeking intentions, and suicidal attitudes among Asian adolescents: a mixed‐methods study in Hong Kong4
Letter to the editor: A debate with no opponent4
Commentary: Closing the gender gap in depression through the lived experience of young women – a response to ‘Don't mind the gap: Why do we not care about the gender gap in mental health?’, Patalay an4
Debate: The toll of the COVID‐19 pandemic on children’s risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors4
Network structure of adolescent social, emotional, and behavioral difficulties and their differential relationships with suicidality4
Commentary: Time to abandon the ‘clinical high risk state for psychosis’ (CHR‐P) concept in adolescence? Commentary on Frearson et al. ‘Efficacy of preventative interventions for children a4
Review: Crisis responses for children and young people – a systematic review of effectiveness, experiences and service organisation (CAMH‐Crisis)4
Digital self‐harm and suicidality among adolescents4
‘We wait and we wait’—caregiver perspectives on autism spectrum disorder services in the Western Cape Province of South Africa4
Space for youth mental health—coercive measure use before and after architectural innovation at a department of child and adolescent psychiatry4
Debate: Climate impacts on mental health – a youth perspective4
A commentary on “Don't mind the gap: Why we do not care about the gender gap in mental health?” by P. Patalay and O. Demkowicz4
Review: Cultural adaptations to psychosocial interventions for families with refugee/asylum‐seeker status in the United Kingdom – a systematic review4
Commentary: Three tasks for eco‐anxiety research – a commentary on Thompson et al. (2021)3
Short research article: COVID‐19 and its impact on child and youth mental health service demand in the community and emergency department3
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Debate: Urban–rural environments – which is better for mental health? Moving beyond urban–rural dichotomies in psychosis risk for young people3
The role of adolescent social inclusion in educational attainment among vulnerable youth3
Bullying victimization among adolescents during the early phase of war in Ukraine – A comparative cross‐sectional study in 2016–20173
The role of neighbourhood greenspace quantity on mental health and cognitive development in early to middle childhood: a multilevel growth curve analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study3
Review: Impact of urgent youth outpatient mental health care on patient and health system outcomes – a scoping review3
Striving for Happily Ever After: Supportive Interventions for Youth Leaving Residential Placement. A Systematic Review of Reviews3
Psychotic‐like experiences and adverse life events in young people. Does gender matter?3
Narrative Matters: Write the pain away – creative writing therapy for young people3
Narrative Matters: Encanto and intergenerational trauma3
Letter to the Editor: ‘It's my ADHD3
Development, preliminary validation and reliability of the colourful ‘My Feelings Form’ self‐report for young children3
Debate: Neurodiversity, autism and healthcare3
Editorial Perspective: Using the levers to improve the mental health transitions of 15–25 year olds – learning from the evidence across the whole of health, social care and beyond3
Review: Digital experiences and their impact on the lives of adolescents with pre‐existing anxiety, depression, eating and nonsuicidal self‐injury conditions – a systematic review3
Editorial: ‘Like a bee and a flower’ – the symbiotic relationship between physical environment and children and young people's psychosocial outcomes3
Editorial: Control alt delete – technology and children's mental health3
Letter to the editor: ‘To seclude or not to seclude, is that the question?’ A commentary on Yurtbasi et al. (2024)3
Commentary: The diagnostic label of Asperger's in historical perspective – a commentary on Kehinde et al. (2021)3
Debate: Involuntary treatment and detention are a necessary part of mental health care – a perspective from low and middle‐income countries2
Debate: Should CAMHs professionals be diagnosing personality disorder in adolescents – ‘No rationale to deprive adolescents of effective treatment’2
Commentary: Timely recognition of mental health needs in young children – parental perception as a way for professionals to understand child, parent, and family needs? – a commentary on McGinnis et al2
Intergenerational consequences of racism in the United Kingdom: a qualitative investigation into parents' exposure to racism and offspring mental health and well‐being2
How are parenting practices associated with bullying in adolescents? A cross‐sectional study2
Narrative Matters: Wasting away and fed up – dietary battles in history2
Commentary: Against the widespread use of other types of PD diagnosis – a commentary on the May 2022 debate (should CAMH professionals be diagnosing personality disorder in adole2
Debate: Bridging the gap – role of nonspecialists in child and adolescent mental health care2
Impact of counselling provision in primary schools on child and adolescent mental health service referral rates: a longitudinal observational cohort study2
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Editorial: Equity, diversity and inclusion in child and adolescent mental health – a perspective from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)2
The protective role of community cohesion across rural and urban contexts: implications for youth mental health2
Identifying and changing cognitive vulnerability in the classroom: preliminary evaluation of CUES‐Ed, a school‐based universal cognitive behavioural early intervention service for 7–10 year olds2
Review: Interventions to prevent or manage self‐harm among students in educational settings – a systematic review2
Editorial: The Cass Review – implications and reassurance for practitioners2
School connectedness mediates the association of social function with depressive symptoms in teenagers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder2
Debate: More, not less social media content moderation? How to better protect youth mental health online2
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A scoping review of youth and young adults' roles in natural disaster mitigation and response: considerations for youth wellbeing during a global ecological crisis1
Narrative Matters: Fighting not drowning – facing a harsh climate future with wisdom, hope and courage1
Place‐based civic science—collective environmental action and solidarity for eco‐resilience1
Clinical Research Updates1
Review: Adverse event monitoring and reporting in studies of pediatric psychosocial interventions: a systematic review1
Debate: Should academics collaborate with digital companies to improve young people's mental health?1
Review: Can digital mental health interventions bridge the ‘digital divide’ for socioeconomically and digitally marginalised youth? A systematic review1
Review: Ecological awareness, anxiety, and actions among youth and their parents – a qualitative study of newspaper narratives1
DEBATE: The inevitable decline of mindfulness1
Debate: Should academics collaborate with social media and gaming companies to identify and reduce mental health impacts on children and young people?1
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Cognitive and behavioral profiles in children with autism spectrum disorder with and without Attention‐Deficit/hyperactivity disorder1
Debate: We need data infrastructure as well as data sharing – conflicts of interest in video game research1
Editorial Perspective: Missing the forest for the trees – how the focus on digital addiction and gaming diverted attention away from wider online risks1
Debate: Response to “Should academics collaborate with digital companies to improve young people's mental health”1
Response: Personality disorder is here to stay across the lifespan – a response to Commentaries on the May 2022 Debate1
Increasing access to evidence‐based treatment for child anxiety problems: online parent‐led CBT for children identified via schools1
Response: Sometimes we wish Chris and Sam had died of cancer! – a response to Commentaries on the May 2022 Debate1
Letter to the Editor: Addressing the escalating trend of nonmedical use of benzodiazepines and Z‐hypnotics among adolescents – a call for gender‐sensitive interventions and policy reforms1
Review: Physical activity interventions for the mental health and well‐being of adolescents – a systematic review1
Review: Meta‐analysis on mindfulness‐based interventions for adolescents' stress, depression, and anxiety in school settings: a cautionary tale1
Clinical Research Updates1
Review: Improving access to mental health interventions for children from birth to five years: A Scoping Review1
Editorial Perspective: Health inequalities, children and young people and the pandemic1
Editorial Perspective: Mental health of young asylum seekers and refugees in the context of COVID‐191
Debate: Child and adolescent mental health services: time to take the lead in prevention of psychosis in youth1
The use and potential of artificial intelligence for supporting clinical observation of child behaviour1
Childhood attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder: socioeconomic inequalities in symptoms, impact, diagnosis and medication1
Commentary: Defining self‐harm: how inconsistencies in language persist – a commentary/reflection on Ward and Curran (2021)1
Debate: CAMHS will be at the forefront of the next generation of psychosis risk models, but further integration with early intervention psychosis services is needed to realise this potential1
Review: Therapist factors and their impact on therapeutic alliance and outcomes in child and adolescent mental health – a systematic review1
Age‐related differences in social media use, online social support, and depressive symptoms in adolescents and emerging adults1
Clinical research updates1
Technology Matters: Collaboratively augmenting longitudinal monitoring (C.A.L.M) in bipolar disorder – co‐design, co‐production and evaluation of the alpha prototype app1
Development of a chatbot for depression: adolescent perceptions and recommendations1
Editorial: Advancing equity, diversity and inclusion through culturally sensitive collaboration and training1
Russian adolescent mental health in 2002, 2015 and during the COVID‐19 pandemic in 20211
The role of social support on the relationships between internet use and sleep problems in adolescents during COVID‐19 pandemic: a multicentre study1
Young people's online communication and its association with mental well‐being: results from the 2019 student health and well‐being survey1
Learning outcomes in primary school children with emotional problems: a prospective cohort study1
Review: Economic evidence of preventive interventions for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents – a systematic review1
Technology Matters: Digital micro interventions to support parenting: Evaluating time out apps1
Commentary: Bringing together lived experience, clinical and research expertise – a commentary on the May 2022 debate (should CAMH professionals be diagnosing personality disorder in adoles1
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