Child and Adolescent Mental Health

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Issue Information	77
Narrative Matters: No teen is an island – the cost of finding a tribe through memes and TikToks	71
Debate: How far can we modify the expression of autism by modifying the environment?	64
Commentary: A spectrum for all? A response to Green et al. (2023), neurodiversity, autism and health care	52
Debate: Social media content moderation may do more harm than good for youth mental health	49
Commentary: Suggestions for guidance by academics who collaborate with digital companies – a commentary on Bourgaize et al. (2025)	46
Issue Information	45
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?	45
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 Africa	37
Commentary: Technology, power and inequalities – achieving a humane approach to the digital divide – a commentary on Aboujaoude and Gega (2021)	31
Clinical Research Updates	31
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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)	25
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 adolescent	23
Editorial: Going through the slippery landscape of conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and help for children in humanitarian crises	23
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)	22
Debate: Young people with personality disorder should be recognised and appropriately managed	21
Short Research Article: RESEED – the perceived impact of an enhanced usual care model of a novel, teacher‐led, task‐shifting initiative for child mental health	21
Issue Information	20
Scoping review: potential harm from school‐based group mental health interventions	20
Cyberbullying among adolescents in Turkey: the relationship between coping strategies and cyberbullying perpetration	20
Commentary: The Signal and the Noise—questioning the benefits of puberty blockers for youth with gender dysphoria—a commentary on Rew et al. (2021)	19
Editorial: The need for more effective school‐based youth mental health interventions	19

Long‐term impact of a mental health literacy resource applied by regular classroom teachers in a Canadian school cohort	17
Associations between dimensions of mental health literacy and adolescent help‐seeking intentions	17
Debate: Don't mind the gap – why do we not care about the gender gap in common mental health difficulties?	17
Examining academic self‐concept as a mediator of the relationship between anxiety and depression: A longitudinal study	16
Review: Interventions addressing loneliness amongst university students: a systematic review	16
‘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’ (	16
Innovations in Practice: Feasibility and provision of dialectical behavior therapy skills training for adolescents and their families	16
Narrative Matters: Gustav Mahler – music as a source of meaning and healing in the face of adversity and inequality	15
Short Research Article: Promoting digital citizenship through a school‐based intervention in early adolescence in Perú (a pilot quasi‐experimental study)	14
Commentary: The wars within – uncomfortable truths about the bullying of girls in conflict‐affected societies	14
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Differences in body mass index trajectories of adolescent psychiatric inpatients by sex, age, diagnosis and medication: an exploratory longitudinal, mixed effects analysis	13
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?	13
Debate: Inequalities within understanding of Eco Distress	13
A qualitative study of young people's lived experiences of suicide and self‐harm: intentionality, rationality and authenticity	13
Review: The effectiveness of musical therapy in improving depression and anxiety symptoms among children and adolescents – a systematic review	12
Issue Information	12
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 Kingdom	12
Clinical research updates	11
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Self‐harm, suicidal ideation, depression and peer relationships in transgender and gender diverse adolescents accessing specialist mental health services	11
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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 findings	11
Debate: Responses to commentaries – neurodiversity, autism and healthcare	11
Editorial: Equity, diversity and inclusion in child and adolescent mental health – equality of opportunities should be every child's right and every society's obligation	11
Debate: If not us, then who?	11
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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 caregivers	10
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
Editorial Perspective: The digital divide – inequalities in remote therapy for children and adolescents	9
Editorial: Evidence in the real world – the need for context and the gender gap	9
Longitudinal effects of green, blue, and gray spaces on early adolescent mental health in the United States	9
Factors that impact mental health help‐seeking in Australian adolescents: a life‐course and socioecological perspective	9
Life problems in children and adolescents who self‐harm: findings from the multicentre study of self‐harm in England	9
The moderation effect of mental health services use on the relationship between exposures to adverse childhood experiences and mental health outcomes among US adolescents	9
Editorial: The debate around over‐pathologising young people's mental health	8
The burden of mental and behavioral health visits to the pediatric ED: A 3‐year tertiary care center experience	8
Preterm birth, bullying victimization, and mental health in adulthood: A prospective cohort study in Germany	8
Clinical research updates	8
Debate: Conduct disorder and the segregation of child mental health	8
Issue Information	8
Clinical research updates	8
Assessing the feasibility of a web‐based outcome measurement system in child and adolescent mental health services – myHealthE a randomised controlled feasibility pilot study	7
Adolescents' problematic internet and smartphone use in (cyber)bullying experiences: A network analysis	7
Staff Perspectives: Why are adolescent inpatients secluded and what causes changes in rates of seclusion on a unit?	7
Home Fae Home: A case study in co‐designing trauma‐informed community spaces with young people in Dundee, Scotland	7
Debate: It is time to stop turning a blind eye to personality disorder in young people	7
Clinical Research Updates	7
Short Research Article: Independent association between household income and family adversity and bipolar disorder in adolescence and young adulthood – a registry‐data study in the Basque Country	7
Understanding unusual sensory experiences: a randomised experimental study of a school‐based intervention for adolescents	6

Editorial: Open science and methods review for Child and Adolescent Mental Health	6
Technology Matters: Online Support and Intervention (OSI) for child anxiety problems – an example of the journey from research to practice	6
Clinical Research Updates	6
Personality functioning in adolescents: exploring the links with childhood maltreatment types and internalizing and externalizing difficulties	6
Review: School‐based mental health literacy interventions to promote help‐seeking – a systematic review	6
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 y	6
Commentary: Safeguarding youth in the smartphone era: rethinking evidence for action – a commentary on Lai et al. (2025)	6
Editorial Perspective: Prioritizing child and adolescent mental health research in the context of war	6
Debate: Academics should collaborate with the technology industry, but not in lieu of noncollaborative research	6
Debate: Child and adolescent mental health professionals have a responsibility to diagnose Personality Disorder	6
Debate: Are we over‐pathologising young people's mental health? The case of trauma and PTSD diagnosis	6
Debate: “The‐Diagnosis‐That‐Must‐Not‐Be‐Named” – Professionals' fear of BPD is failing their patients	5
Preventing anxiety in the children of anxious parents – feasibility of a brief, online, group intervention for parents of one‐ to three‐year‐olds	5
Barriers and facilitators of implementation of evidence‐based interventions in children and young people's mental health care – a systematic review	5
Review: System transformation to enhance transitional age youth mental health – a scoping review	5
Commentary: Did the internet cause an increase in the prevalence of mental disorders? – A commentary on Aboujaoude and Gega (2021)	5
Editorial: Socio‐economic inequality and child and adolescent mental health	5
Clinical research updates	5
Response: “The Signal and the Noise”—a response to Clayton et al. (2021)	5
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Review: Young people's recovery processes from mental health problems – a scoping review	5
Narrative Matters: Ursula Le Guin's writings and adolescence	5
Debate: ‘Neurodiversity’ – has it outrun its usefulness?	4
Editorial Perspective: What do we need to know about the manosphere and young people's mental health?	4
Debate: How much should nonspecialists be involved in mental health care when resources are limited? A perspective from low‐ and middle‐income countries	4
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 an	4
‘We wait and we wait’—caregiver perspectives on autism spectrum disorder services in the Western Cape Province of South Africa	4
Debate: Climate impacts on mental health – a youth perspective	4
Debate: Are we overpathologising young people's mental health? Research shows otherwise – mental health conditions are not being recognised or diagnosed in healthcare settings	4
Long‐term outcome of intensive home treatment for children and adolescents with mental health problems – 4 years after a randomized controlled clinical trial	4
Editorial: Primum non nocere – are adverse events accurately reported in studies on psychological interventions for children?	4
Letter to the editor: A debate with no opponent	4
Review: Crisis responses for children and young people – a systematic review of effectiveness, experiences and service organisation (CAMH‐Crisis)	4
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. Demkowicz	4
Debate: Urban versus rural environments – which is better for mental health? The one good thing about a small town…	4
Commentary: Proactive practices to support youth coping with climate change – a commentary on Martin et al. (2021)	4
Digital self‐harm and suicidality among adolescents	4
Coping with peer suicidality, help‐seeking intentions, and suicidal attitudes among Asian adolescents: a mixed‐methods study in Hong Kong	4
Space for youth mental health—coercive measure use before and after architectural innovation at a department of child and adolescent psychiatry	4
Associations between parental socioeconomic status and mental health in Chinese children: the mediating roles of parenting practices	4
Review Article: The acceptability and effectiveness of standardised diagnostic assessment approaches in children and young people's mental health services – an updated systematic review	4
Network structure of adolescent social, emotional, and behavioral difficulties and their differential relationships with suicidality	3
Debate: Involuntary treatment – not whether, but when and what else is needed	3
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 beyond	3
Issue Information	3
Editorial: ‘Like a bee and a flower’ – the symbiotic relationship between physical environment and children and young people's psychosocial outcomes	3
Review: Impact of urgent youth outpatient mental health care on patient and health system outcomes – a scoping review	3
Striving for Happily Ever After: Supportive Interventions for Youth Leaving Residential Placement. A Systematic Review of Reviews	3
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 a	3
Associations between childhood interactions with people of Black race/ethnicity and racial implicit association tasks in psychiatric providers in the United States – a cross‐sectional study	3
Short Research Article: Changes in life functioning in a self‐help, online program for child and adolescent anxiety	3
Commentary: Three tasks for eco‐anxiety research – a commentary on Thompson et al. (2021)	3
Debate: Neurodiversity, autism and healthcare	3
Short research article: COVID‐19 and its impact on child and youth mental health service demand in the community and emergency department	3
Commentary: Who gets the credit for “discovering” ADHD and what is the question, really?	3
Review: Cultural adaptations to psychosocial interventions for families with refugee/asylum‐seeker status in the United Kingdom – a systematic review	3
Issue Information	3
Psychotic‐like experiences and adverse life events in young people. Does gender matter?	3
Review: Digital experiences and their impact on the lives of adolescents with pre‐existing anxiety, depression, eating and nonsuicidal self‐injury conditions – a systematic review	3
Editorial: Control alt delete – technology and children's mental health	3
Issue Information	2
Editorial: The Cass Review – implications and reassurance for practitioners	2
Debate: Involuntary treatment and detention are a necessary part of mental health care – a perspective from low and middle‐income countries	2
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 adole	2
The role of adolescent social inclusion in educational attainment among vulnerable youth	2
Debate: Urban–rural environments – which is better for mental health? Moving beyond urban–rural dichotomies in psychosis risk for young people	2
Bullying victimization among adolescents during the early phase of war in Ukraine – A comparative cross‐sectional study in 2016–2017	2
Letter to the Editor: ‘It's my ADHD’	2
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 olds	2
Debate: Bridging the gap – role of nonspecialists in child and adolescent mental health care	2
Debate: Should CAMHs professionals be diagnosing personality disorder in adolescents – ‘No rationale to deprive adolescents of effective treatment’	2
Debate: More, not less social media content moderation? How to better protect youth mental health online	2
Narrative Matters: Write the pain away – creative writing therapy for young people	2
Letter to the editor: ‘To seclude or not to seclude, is that the question?’ A commentary on Yurtbasi et al. (2024)	2
Narrative Matters: Encanto and intergenerational trauma	2
Issue Information	2
Narrative Matters: Wasting away and fed up – dietary battles in history	2
Review: Interventions to prevent or manage self‐harm among students in educational settings – a systematic review	2
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 health	2

Development, preliminary validation and reliability of the colourful ‘My Feelings Form’ self‐report for young children	2
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 Study	2
School connectedness mediates the association of social function with depressive symptoms in teenagers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder	1
Commentary: Bringing together lived experience, clinical and research expertise – a commentary on the May 2022 debate (should CAMH professionals be diagnosing personality disorder in adoles	1
Clinical Research Updates	1
Narrative Matters: Fighting not drowning – facing a harsh climate future with wisdom, hope and courage	1
Review: Can digital mental health interventions bridge the ‘digital divide’ for socioeconomically and digitally marginalised youth? A systematic review	1
Debate: Should academics collaborate with digital companies to improve young people's mental health?	1
Editorial: Advancing equity, diversity and inclusion through culturally sensitive collaboration and training	1
The role of social support on the relationships between internet use and sleep problems in adolescents during COVID‐19 pandemic: a multicentre study	1
Debate: We need data infrastructure as well as data sharing – conflicts of interest in video game research	1
Age‐related differences in social media use, online social support, and depressive symptoms in adolescents and emerging adults	1
The use and potential of artificial intelligence for supporting clinical observation of child behaviour	1
Editorial Perspective: Mental health of young asylum seekers and refugees in the context of COVID‐19	1
Commentary: Where to next for universal school‐based mental health interventions? Don't through the baby out with the bathwater	1
Issue Information	1
Response: Personality disorder is here to stay across the lifespan – a response to Commentaries on the May 2022 Debate	1
Review: Therapist factors and their impact on therapeutic alliance and outcomes in child and adolescent mental health – a systematic review	1
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 al	1
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 reforms	1
Clinical research updates	1
Debate: Are we over‐pathologising young people's mental health? The role of participatory research in moving beyond pathology	1
Narrative Matters: Adolescence in The Manosphere – A perfect storm?	1
Learning outcomes in primary school children with emotional problems: a prospective cohort study	1
Russian adolescent mental health in 2002, 2015 and during the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2021	1
Review: Adverse event monitoring and reporting in studies of pediatric psychosocial interventions: a systematic review	1
Increasing access to evidence‐based treatment for child anxiety problems: online parent‐led CBT for children identified via schools	1
Review: Improving access to mental health interventions for children from birth to five years: A Scoping Review	1
Childhood attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder: socioeconomic inequalities in symptoms, impact, diagnosis and medication	1
Young people's online communication and its association with mental well‐being: results from the 2019 student health and well‐being survey	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 potential	1
A scoping review of youth and young adults' roles in natural disaster mitigation and response: considerations for youth wellbeing during a global ecological crisis	1
Impact of counselling provision in primary schools on child and adolescent mental health service referral rates: a longitudinal observational cohort study	1
Debate: Child and adolescent mental health services: time to take the lead in prevention of psychosis in youth	1
Place‐based civic science—collective environmental action and solidarity for eco‐resilience	1
Review: Ecological awareness, anxiety, and actions among youth and their parents – a qualitative study of newspaper narratives	1
Technology Matters: Collaboratively augmenting longitudinal monitoring (C.A.L.M) in bipolar disorder – co‐design, co‐production and evaluation of the alpha prototype app	1
Review: Meta‐analysis on mindfulness‐based interventions for adolescents' stress, depression, and anxiety in school settings: a cautionary tale	1
Development of a chatbot for depression: adolescent perceptions and recommendations	1
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Technology Matters: The ESSENCE of holistic neurodivergent identification in a digital age	1
Debate: Should academics collaborate with social media and gaming companies to identify and reduce mental health impacts on children and young people?	1
Review: Economic evidence of preventive interventions for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents – a systematic review	1
DEBATE: The inevitable decline of mindfulness	1
Technology Matters: Digital micro interventions to support parenting: Evaluating time out apps	1
Cognitive and behavioral profiles in children with autism spectrum disorder with and without Attention‐Deficit/hyperactivity disorder	1
Debate: Response to “Should academics collaborate with digital companies to improve young people's mental health”	1
Intergenerational consequences of racism in the United Kingdom: a qualitative investigation into parents' exposure to racism and offspring mental health and well‐being	1