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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in pediatric emergency department visits for mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study	60
Using TikTok for public and youth mental health – A systematic review and content analysis	45
Gender minority stress in trans and gender diverse adolescents and young people	39
Mentalization-based treatments with children and families: A systematic review of the literature	35
Business as usual? Psychological support at a distance	35
The COVID-19 pandemic and obsessive–compulsive disorder in young people: Systematic review	32
A systematic review of the experience of being a sibling of a child with an autism spectrum disorder	25
Exploring adolescents’ perspectives on social media and mental health and well-being – A qualitative literature review	24
Relationship between sluggish cognitive tempo and sleep, psychological, somatic, and cognitive problems and impairment in children with autism and children with ADHD	22
Facial emotion recognition in children with externalising behaviours: A systematic review	21
Development and psychometric validation of the interRAI ChYMH externalizing subscale	20
Parenting behaviors, parenting styles, and non-suicidal self-injury in young people: a systematic review	20
A review of risk factors associated with insulin omission for weight loss in type 1 diabetes	20
Not social transition status, but peer relations and family functioning predict psychological functioning in a German clinical sample of children with Gender Dysphoria	19
Pathways to gender affirmation in trans youth: A qualitative and participative study with youth and their parents	18
Fear and anxiety in girls aged 7 to 11 years old and related factors during the coronavirus pandemic	17
How adolescents understand their values: A qualitative study	17
Cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia in adolescents with comorbid psychiatric disorders: A clinical pilot study	16
Psychological care in low-resource settings for adolescents	16
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	16
Psychological distress and resilience in a multicentre sample of adolescents and young adults with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Increased prevalence and severity of psychiatric illness in hospitalized youth during COVID-19	15
Shifts in demographics and mental health co-morbidities among gender dysphoric youth referred to a specialist gender dysphoria service	13
Thinking about young refugees’ mental health following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022	13
Emotion regulation difficulties and psychopathology among Pakistani adolescents	13

COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on mothers’ and infants’ mental health during pregnancy and shortly thereafter	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
Music therapy for adolescents with psychiatric disorders: An overview	11
Preterm birth: Educational and mental health outcomes	11
Suicidal and nonsuicidal self-harming thoughts and behaviors in clinically referred children and adolescents with gender dysphoria	11
Using virtual reality to treat aggressive behavior problems in children: A feasibility study	11
A psychological support group for parents in the care of families with gender diverse children and adolescents	11
A large population-based study of the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the North of England	11
Sensation seeking and nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior among adolescent psychiatric patients	11
Cannabis use among early adolescents and transdiagnostic mental health risk factors	11
Connecting over the internet: Establishing the therapeutic alliance in an internet-based treatment for depressed adolescents	10
Alternatives to mental health admissions for children and adolescents experiencing mental health crises: A systematic review of the literature	10
The impact of COVID-19 on adolescent psychiatric inpatient admissions	10
Association between single session service attendance and clinical characteristics in administrative data	10
Efficacy of attachment-based family therapy compared to treatment as usual for suicidal ideation in adolescents with MDD	10
A psycho-social analysis of depression, anxiety and student engagement: Effects of parenting practices	9
Attachment to parents and friends and body dissatisfaction in adolescents with eating disorders	9
School refusal and isolation: The perspectives of five adolescent school refusers in London, UK	9
COVID-19 pandemic fears and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in adolescents with pre-existing mental disorders: An exploratory cross-sectional study	9
Low carbohydrate diets in eating disorders and type 1 diabetes	9
Caring for gender diverse children and adolescents in Italy: A mixed-method investigation of clinicians’ knowledge and approach to clinical practice	9
Preparing for the COVID-19 paediatric mental health crisis: A focus on youth reactions to caretaker death	9
Prevention and early help for eating disorders in young people with type 1 diabetes	9
Paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome: 25 year perspective	9
Understanding developmental psychopathology in Type 1 diabetes through attachment, mentalisation and diabetes distress	9
Clinical Supervision for Support Workers in Paediatric Palliative Care: A Literature Review	8
Effectiveness of resilience training on social self-efficacy of the elementary school girls during COVID-19 outbreak	8
Digital media use frequency, online behaviors, and risk for negative mental health in adolescents in high-achieving schools	8
Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy for adolescents with insomnia comorbid to psychiatric conditions: A non-randomised trial	8
Seeing rainbows through the storms of a health condition: Making space for LGBTQ+ young people to have their identity acknowledged	8
Feasibility and acceptability of a brief cognitive-behavioral group intervention for chronic irritability in youth	7
Gaining the courage to see and accept oneself: Group-based compassion-focussed therapy as experienced by adolescent girls	7
The process of integrating psychology into medical clinics: Pediatric psychology as an example	7
Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Reflections on the last 25 years	7
Contact with biological parents following placement in foster care: Associations with preschool child externalizing behavior	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
A nonrandomized trial of a behavioral parent training intervention for parents with children with challenging behaviors: In-person versus internet-HOT DOCS	7
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	7
Using informant discrepancies in report of parent–adolescent conflict to predict hopelessness in adolescent depression	7
Multimodal therapy for rigid, persistent avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) since infancy: A case report	6
Pediatric Avoidant-Restrictive Food Intake Disorder and gastrointestinal-related Somatic Symptom Disorders: Overlap in clinical presentation	6
The role of adverse childhood experiences and attachment styles in social anxiety disorder in adolescents	6
Pilot trial of a self-compassion intervention to address adolescents’ social media-related body image concerns	6
Home direct-to-consumer telehealth solutions for children with mental health disorders and the impact of Covid-19	6
Mental health problems in refugee and immigrant primary school children in Flanders, Belgium	6
The efficacy of group delivered mentalization-based parenting interventions: A systematic review of the literature	6
Feasibility trial of virtual reality exposure therapy for selective mutism	6
An integrated sleep and anxiety intervention for anxious children: A pilot randomized controlled trial	6
Mental health literacy websites for children of parents with a mental illness	6

Rationale and methods of the ‘Northern Ireland Youth Wellbeing Survey’ and initial findings from the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire	6
Delivering clinical evidence-based child–parent interventions for emotional development through a digital platform: A feasibility trial	6
The mediating role of Courageous coping in the relations between spirituality and social support with resilience among adolescents with hemophilia	6
Coping strategy enhancement for the treatment of distressing voices in young people: A service evaluation within routine clinical practice	6
Identifying and managing eating disorders in type 1 diabetes mellitus: An all-Wales study	6
Depressive symptoms among children attending community based support in South Africa – pathways for disrupting risk factors	5
Reliability and validity of the DSM-5 Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children, Adolescents, and Parents-5 in externalizing disorders and common comorbidities	5
Mental health of children and young people since the start of the pandemic	5
The contribution of peer trainers to the Tree of Life project for young people living with Type 1 Diabetes: Building community	5
The quest for genuine care: A qualitative study of the experiences of young people who self-harm in residential care	5
Early detection of anxiety problems in childhood: Spanish validation of the brief Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale for parents	5
‘Every day is hard, being outside, but you have to do it for your child’: Mixed-methods formative evaluation of a peer-led parenting intervention for homeless families	5
Identifying clinical and psychological correlates of persistent negative symptoms in early-onset psychotic disorders	5
The Ukraine crisis: Mental health resources for clinicians and researchers	5
Attachment representations in children with disruptive behavior disorders: A special focus on insecurity in middle childhood	5
Exploring Behavioural Activation as a treatment for low mood within CAMHS: An IPA study of adolescent experiences	5
Assessment of digital risks in child and adolescent mental health services: A mixed-method, theory-driven study of clinicians’ experiences and perspectives	5
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people – Understanding their journeys towards improved physical and emotional health	5
Paediatric medical care for children and young people with eating disorders: Achievements and where to next	5
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment in functional neurological symptom disorder with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: A study of two cases	5
Self-evaluation and depression in adolescents with a chronic illness: A systematic review	5
Influences on help-seeking decisions for behavioral child sleep problems: Why parents do and do not seek help	5
Mental health of children of health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study	5
Family therapy for adolescents with depression and suicidal ideation: A systematic review and meta–analysis	5
Medical students’ psychological and behavioral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive phenomenological study	5
Negative life events and internalizing problems among Romanian youth	4
Psychological and neuropsychological underpinnings of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder assessment	4
Psychometric properties of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale in Greek Adolescents	4
Service user engagement by ethnicity groups at a children’s gender identity service in the UK	4
COVID-19 lockdown in Spain: Psychological impact is greatest on younger and vulnerable children	4
Adolescent sleep – lessons from COVID-19	4
Peer loss: Posttraumatic stress, depression, and grief symptoms in a traumatized adolescent community	4
Inhibitory Control Training Improves Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Externalizing Behavior	4
A narrative-informed evaluation of tree of life for parents of children with physical health conditions	4
Attachment representations to parents and emotional-behavioral problems: A comparison between children with type 1 diabetes mellitus and healthy children in middle childhood	4
Soliciting children’s views on other-perspectives in child mental health assessments	4
Is consent causing confusion for clinicians? A survey of child and adolescent Mental health professional’s confidence in using Parental Consent, Gillick Competence and the Mental Capacity Act	4
Using Theoretical Models of Problematic Internet Use to Inform Psychological Formulation: A Systematic Scoping Review	4
Impact of a single school-based intervention for COVID-19 on improving mental health among Japanese children	4
The experiences of adolescents diagnosed with functional gastrointestinal disorders: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	4
Considerations for minority ethnic young people in multisystemic therapy	4
Social cognition in first episode adolescent depression and its correlation with clinical features and quality of life	4
Evaluation of social cognition, autistic traits, and dysmorphology in comorbid specific learning disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	4
The experience of sleep problems for adolescents with depression in short-term psychological therapy	4
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis exploring how psychiatrists conceptualise conduct disorder and experience making the diagnosis	4
Neonatal stress and behavior problems in preschool children born preterm	4
Mentalization in female adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury and alexithymic and depressive features in their parents	4
An intensive form of trauma focused cognitive behaviour therapy in an acute adolescent inpatient unit: An uncontrolled open trial	4
The effects of yoga on mental health in school-aged children: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Randomised Control Trials	4
Family bonds in the midst of adversity: Insights into refugee children’s coping ways	4
Key socio-demographic characteristics of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria: A British Isles surveillance study	4
Growth mindset in young people awaiting treatment in a paediatric mental health service: A mixed methods pilot of a digital single-session intervention	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
Transition outcomes for young people discharged from adolescent medium secure services in England: A qualitative study exploring adolescents’ and carers’ experiences	4
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	4
Exploring the potentially positive interaction between social media and mental health; the perspectives of adolescents	4
Psychological well-being in childhood: The role of trait emotional intelligence, regulatory emotional self-efficacy, coping and general intelligence	4
Shared or unique trajectories of PTSD and depression in children over time since an earthquake	4