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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Building Resilience and Attachment in Vulnerable Adolescents (BRAVA): a brief group intervention for adolescents with mild‐to‐moderate suicidal ideation and their caregivers563
Clinical research updates56
Debate: Where to next for universal school‐based mental health interventions? Time to move towards more effective alternatives46
Letter to the editor: ‘To seclude or not to seclude, is that the question?’ A commentary on Yurtbasi et al. (2024)40
Clinical Research Updates37
Debate: Health professionals have a chance every day to lead on mitigating the ecological and climate crisis36
Feasibility study of a new behavioural activation programme for young people with depressed mood34
Narrative Matters: Write the pain away – creative writing therapy for young people29
Clinical Research Updates28
Narrative Matters: Encanto and intergenerational trauma26
Narrative Matters: No teen is an island – the cost of finding a tribe through memes and TikToks23
Development, preliminary validation and reliability of the colourful ‘My Feelings Form’ self‐report for young children21
Response: “The Signal and the Noise”—a response to Clayton et al. (2021)18
Response: Sometimes we wish Chris and Sam had died of cancer! – a response to Commentaries on the May 2022 Debate18
Debate: How far can we modify the expression of autism by modifying the environment?17
Commentary: The diagnostic label of Asperger's in historical perspective – a commentary on Kehinde et al. (2021)17
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Technology Matters: Collaboratively augmenting longitudinal monitoring (C.A.L.M) in bipolar disorder – co‐design, co‐production and evaluation of the alpha prototype app14
Debate: Stigma implications for diagnosing personality disorders in adolescents13
Self‐harm, suicidal ideation, depression and peer relationships in transgender and gender diverse adolescents accessing specialist mental health services12
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Editorial Perspective: The digital divide – inequalities in remote therapy for children and adolescents12
Narrative Matters: When does the history of ADHD not begin?12
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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 countries12
Issue Information11
The role of adolescent social inclusion in educational attainment among vulnerable youth11
Clinical research updates11
Debate: Responses to commentaries – neurodiversity, autism and healthcare11
Editorial Perspective: Mental health needs of children and young people of Black ethnicity.1 Is it time to reconceptualise racism as a traumatic experience?11
The rapid stabilization pathway: impact of a brief inpatient intervention on the length of stay and readmissions among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents10
Debate: Social media content moderation may do more harm than good for youth mental health10
Breaking the Silence: An Epidemiological Report on Asian American and Pacific Islander Youth Mental Health and Suicide (1999–2021)10
Clinical research updates10
Debate: Putting psychiatric hospitalization for children and adolescents in its place: it is time to create a system of care that works10
Long‐term outcome of intensive home treatment for children and adolescents with mental health problems – 4 years after a randomized controlled clinical trial10
Technology Matters: Online, self‐help single session interventions could expand current provision, improving early access to help for young people with depression symptoms, including minority groups10
Commentary: What price eyeballs? – a commentary/reflection on Benoit, Thomas and Martin (2021)9
Letter to the Editor: Mental health efforts should pay attention to children and young people in climate‐vulnerable countries9
Issue Information9
Debate: The prevention of psychosis in child and adolescent mental health services9
Editorial Perspective: How can we help the children of Ukraine and others affected by military conflict?9
Narrative Matters: Ursula Le Guin's writings and adolescence9
Debate: Coping and resilience in the time of COVID‐19 and structural inequities9
Editorial Perspective: What do we need to know about the manosphere and young people's mental health?9
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)9
Debate: More, not less social media content moderation? How to better protect youth mental health online9
Debate: If not us, then who?9
How are parenting practices associated with bullying in adolescents? A cross‐sectional study9
Commentary: Proactive practices to support youth coping with climate change – a commentary on Martin et al. (2021)9
Correction to ‘Review: Economic evidence of preventive interventions for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents – a systematic review’9
Parental death by external causes during childhood and risk of psychiatric disorders in bereaved offspring9
Commentary: A spectrum for all? A response to Green et al. (2023), neurodiversity, autism and health care9
Life problems in children and adolescents who self‐harm: findings from the multicentre study of self‐harm in England9
Debate: Conduct disorder and the segregation of child mental health8
Editorial Perspective: Cabin fever – the impact of lockdown on children and young people8
Sleep duration, depressive symptoms, and digital self‐harm among adolescents7
Debate: How the business model of social media fuels the need for greater moderation7
Review: Interventions to prevent or manage self‐harm among students in educational settings – a systematic review7
Issue Information7
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?7
Debate: ‘Neurodiversity’ – has it outrun its usefulness?7
Longitudinal association of conduct and emotional problems with school exclusion and truancy: A fixed effect analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study7
Clinical Research Updates7
Debate: One young person’s story of CAMHS and BPD6
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 Africa6
Editorial: Primum non nocere – are adverse events accurately reported in studies on psychological interventions for children?6
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 olds6
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Issue Information6
Narrative Matters: Wasting away and fed up – dietary battles in history6
Narrative Matters: Hidden LIVE – Adam's story – a mental health theatre production as an example of participatory principles and practices6
Editorial: Short interventions and self‐help interventions in child and adolescent mental health6
Debate: Quantity of impatient beds and quality of child psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care provision – a German perspective5
Editorial: New insights into self‐harm among children and young people – renewed links with inequality, new opportunities for recognition and new treatment option5
Editorial: Evidence in the real world – the need for context and the gender gap5
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 al5
Technology Matters: Using apps to address loneliness in adolescents and young adults – leveraging tech engagement among digital natives5
Editorial: Equity, diversity and inclusion in child and adolescent mental health – a perspective from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)5
Digital self‐harm and suicidality among adolescents5
Review: Which components of behavioral parent and teacher training work for children with ADHD? – a metaregression analysis on child behavioral outcomes5
Review: Mental health impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on children and youth – a systematic review5
Commentary: Technology, power and inequalities – achieving a humane approach to the digital divide – a commentary on Aboujaoude and Gega (2021)5
Debate: Conduct disorder, like all psychiatric diagnoses, is not a diagnosis5
Factors that impact mental health help‐seeking in Australian adolescents: a life‐course and socioecological perspective5
Short Research Article: Impact of a prolonged lockdown on the symptoms of paediatric ADHD and common associated disorders5
Review: School‐based interventions to improve mental health literacy and reduce mental health stigma – a systematic review5
Measuring goal progress using the goal‐based outcome measure in Jigsaw – A primary care youth mental health service5
Debate: Prevention of psychosis in adolescents – does CAMHS have a role?5
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 adole5
Issue Information5
Debate: Involuntary treatment and detention are a necessary part of mental health care – a perspective from low and middle‐income countries5
Debate: The future of inpatient units – do we need them?5
Commentary: Comment and reflection about Mental health outcomes of the Daily Mile in elementary school children: a single‐arm pilot study. The implementation of the Daily Mile in the school context4
The burden of mental and behavioral health visits to the pediatric ED: A 3‐year tertiary care center experience4
Debate: Should CAMHs professionals be diagnosing personality disorder in adolescents – ‘No rationale to deprive adolescents of effective treatment’4
Debate: Where to next for universal school‐based mental health interventions? The value of student voices in informing the design and implementation of universal school‐based mental health interventio4
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Impact of counselling provision in primary schools on child and adolescent mental health service referral rates: a longitudinal observational cohort study4
Debate: The toll of the COVID‐19 pandemic on children’s risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors4
Debate: Bridging the gap – role of nonspecialists in child and adolescent mental health care4
Editorial: The Cass Review – implications and reassurance for practitioners4
Debate: Feeling understood in a fake world – the place of inpatient mental health units in the care of children and adolescents4
Innovations in Practice: Brief behavioral parent training for children with impairing ADHD characteristics – a pilot study4
Clinical Research Updates4
School connectedness mediates the association of social function with depressive symptoms in teenagers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder4
The moderation effect of mental health services use on the relationship between exposures to adverse childhood experiences and mental health outcomes among US adolescents4
Letter to the Editor: Detecting and treating young people at risk for psychosis is essential, but early intervention for those with a psychotic disorder should be a priority for CAMHS4
COVID‐related distress, mental health, and substance use in adolescents and young adults4
Debate: Inpatient units must enhance the system of care4
Narrative Matters: Is obedience good? the classics may surprise us4
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)4
Narrative Matters: Where the Wild Things Are—a Freudian primer3
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)3
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Clinical research updates3
Debate: It is time to stop turning a blind eye to personality disorder in young people3
Review: The mental health implications for children and adolescents impacted by infectious outbreaks – a systematic review3
Narrative Matters: ‘Who decides what a meaningful life is?’ Life, Animated – a refreshing insight into an autistic person’s life3
Assessing the feasibility of a web‐based outcome measurement system in child and adolescent mental health services – myHealthE a randomised controlled feasibility pilot study3
Editorial: Are our kids getting a fair deal?3
Response: Personality disorder is here to stay across the lifespan – a response to Commentaries on the May 2022 Debate3
Issue Information3
Cyberbullying among adolescents in Turkey: the relationship between coping strategies and cyberbullying perpetration3
Debate: The role of inpatient units is to support community care3
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Clinical research updates3
Editorial: Going through the slippery landscape of conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and help for children in humanitarian crises3
Letter to the editor: A debate with no opponent3
Issue Information3
Commentary: Getting kids what they need, where they are, when they need it: home‐based services in a continuum of care – a commentary on Boege et al. (2021)3
Debate: Response to “Should academics collaborate with digital companies to improve young people's mental health”2
‘We wait and we wait’—caregiver perspectives on autism spectrum disorder services in the Western Cape Province of South Africa2
Appearance satisfaction mediates the relationship between recreational screen time and depressive symptoms in adolescents2
Associations between parental socioeconomic status and mental health in Chinese children: the mediating roles of parenting practices2
Commentary: Autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability – an evolving landscape of clinical terminology – a commentary on Kehinde et al. (2021)2
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 an2
Place‐based civic science—collective environmental action and solidarity for eco‐resilience2
Debate: Involuntary treatment and detention are a necessary part of mental health care for children and young people2
Short Research Article: RESEED – the perceived impact of an enhanced usual care model of a novel, teacher‐led, task‐shifting initiative for child mental health2
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 adolescent2
Adolescent sleep, distress, and technology use: weekday versus weekend2
Debate: Oppositional defiant disorder is a real disorder2
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 potential2
Editorial: Suicide prevention in youth2
Intergenerational consequences of racism in the United Kingdom: a qualitative investigation into parents' exposure to racism and offspring mental health and well‐being2
Co‐producing a complex psychosocial intervention during COVID‐19 with young people transitioning from adolescent secure hospitals to adult services in England: Moving Forward intervention (MFi)2
Climate change‐related worry among Australian adolescents: an eight‐year longitudinal study2
Clinical research updates2
A scoping review of youth and young adults' roles in natural disaster mitigation and response: considerations for youth wellbeing during a global ecological crisis2
‘No one else understands’, ‘I wouldn't want to pity myself over something that's not really my problem’: siblings' experiences of their adolescent brothers and sisters' inpatient treatment for mental 1
COVID‐19 stressors and symptoms of anxiety and depression in a community sample of children and adolescents1
Review: The impact of climate change awareness on children's mental well‐being and negative emotions – a scoping review1
Short Research Article: Changes in life functioning in a self‐help, online program for child and adolescent anxiety1
Editorial perspective: Transforming child and adolescent mental health services and systems (CAMHSS) around the globe – the importance of diversity, inclusion and equity in CAMHSS research1
Review: Crisis responses for children and young people – a systematic review of effectiveness, experiences and service organisation (CAMH‐Crisis)1
Review: Efficacy of preventative interventions for children and adolescents at clinical high risk of psychosis – a systematic review and meta‐analysis of intervention studies1
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. Demkowicz1
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
Debate: Climate impacts on mental health – a youth perspective1
Space for youth mental health—coercive measure use before and after architectural innovation at a department of child and adolescent psychiatry1
Parental perception of mental health needs in young children1
Debate: Games‐based collaboration as a driver for massive‐scale mental health research1
Debate: How much should nonspecialists be involved in mental health care for children and young people when resources are limited?1
Debate: Is there a true global children and young people mental health crisis? Fact or Fiction: A South African Perspective1
The use and potential of artificial intelligence for supporting clinical observation of child behaviour1
Trends in the nonmedical misuse of benzodiazepines and Z‐hypnotics among school‐aged adolescents (2016–2021): gender differences and related factors1
Review: Unaccompanied refugee minors’ perception of mental health services and professionals: a systematic review of qualitative studies1
Technology Matters: Digital micro interventions to support parenting: Evaluating time out apps1
Understanding unusual sensory experiences: a randomised experimental study of a school‐based intervention for adolescents1
Autism Spectrum Social Stories in Schools Trial 2 (ASSSIST‐2): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial of the Social Stories™ intervention to address the social and emotional hea1
Coping with peer suicidality, help‐seeking intentions, and suicidal attitudes among Asian adolescents: a mixed‐methods study in Hong Kong1
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Issue Information1
Commentary: Worshipping the internet – the perils of serving an unpredictable master – a commentary on Aboujaoude and Gega (2021)1
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Review: Economic evidence of preventive interventions for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents – a systematic review1
Young people's engagement with climate change issues through digital media – a content analysis1
Commentary: Who gets the credit for “discovering” ADHD and what is the question, really?1
Debate: How can child and adolescent mental health professionals show leadership in the face of the ecological and climate crisis?1
Assessing the need of young people using online counselling services: how useful are standardised measures?1
Clinical research updates1
Debate: Don't mind the gap – why do we not care about the gender gap in common mental health difficulties?1
Associations between dimensions of mental health literacy and adolescent help‐seeking intentions1
‘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’ (1
Review: School‐based mental health literacy interventions to promote help‐seeking – a systematic review1
Debate: Where to next for universal school‐based mental health interventions? Universal versus targeted school‐based mental health interventions: a health economic perspective1
Review: Therapist factors and their impact on therapeutic alliance and outcomes in child and adolescent mental health – a systematic review1
Technology Matters: Machine learning approaches to personalised child and adolescent mental health care1
Commentary: Reviewing neurodiversity, autism, and healthcare by Jonathan Green (2023) from an autistic perspective1
Staff Perspectives: Why are adolescent inpatients secluded and what causes changes in rates of seclusion on a unit?1
Long‐term impact of a mental health literacy resource applied by regular classroom teachers in a Canadian school cohort1
Debate: Young people with personality disorder should be recognised and appropriately managed1
Commentary: Using experts by experience to enhance transitional age youth mental health services – a commentary on Adu et al. (2022)1
Review: Universal mental health interventions for young students in adverse environments – a systematic review of evaluated interventions1
Examining academic self‐concept as a mediator of the relationship between anxiety and depression: A longitudinal study1
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