Child and Adolescent Mental Health

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Issue Information	74
Narrative Matters: No teen is an island – the cost of finding a tribe through memes and TikToks	63
Commentary: A spectrum for all? A response to Green et al. (2023), neurodiversity, autism and health care	54
Clinical research updates	54
Debate: How far can we modify the expression of autism by modifying the environment?	44
Debate: Social media content moderation may do more harm than good for youth mental health	43
Commentary: Suggestions for guidance by academics who collaborate with digital companies – a commentary on Bourgaize et al. (2025)	34
Letter to the Editor: Review article: The effectiveness of school‐based interventions for reducing screen time – a systematic review and meta‐analysis	30
Clinical Research Updates	30
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?	28
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Mentalization and mental health outcomes in adolescents with internalizing disorders: a systematic review and multilevel meta‐analysis	27
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	27
Short Research Article: RESEED – the perceived impact of an enhanced usual care model of a novel, teacher‐led	26
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)	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	24
Editorial: Going through the slippery landscape of conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and help for children in humanitarian crises	22
Editorial: After a decade, does narrative still matter?	21
Letter to the Editor: Beyond general scales – parent–child relationships in cultural contexts and adolescent suicide risk	21
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
Cyberbullying among adolescents in Turkey: the relationship between coping strategies and cyberbullying perpetration	19
Editorial Perspective: A call for action on imposter participants in child and adolescent mental health research	18
Scoping review: potential harm from school‐based group mental health interventions	18
Issue Information	17

Debate: Social media in children and young people – time for a ban? Beyond bans: addressing the digital determinants of youth mental health and well‐being in the European region	16
Long‐term impact of a mental health literacy resource applied by regular classroom teachers in a Canadian school cohort	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
How do Artificial Intelligence chatbots respond to questions from adolescent personas about their eating, body weight or appearance?	16
Correction to ‘Debate: Social media in children and young people—time for a ban? From polarised debate to precautionary action—a population mental health perspective on social media and youth well‐bei	15
A digital intervention to improve mental health and interpersonal resilience in young people who have experienced technology‐assisted sexual abuse: a feasibility clinical trial	14
Examining academic self‐concept as a mediator of the relationship between anxiety and depression: A longitudinal study	13
A grounded theory of the process of social transition in a family context from the perspective of gender diverse young people and their parents	13
Debate: Standing up for science – how to combat misinformation in child mental health: protecting the integrity of autism research and practice in the United States	13
Debate: Don't mind the gap – why do we not care about the gender gap in common mental health difficulties?	12
The effectiveness of an online‐based psychosocial program for parents of children with neurodevelopmental disorders – a randomized controlled trial	12
Editorial: The need for more effective school‐based youth mental health interventions	12
Associations between dimensions of mental health literacy and adolescent help‐seeking intentions	12
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
Commentary: The wars within – uncomfortable truths about the bullying of girls in conflict‐affected societies	11
A qualitative study of young people's lived experiences of suicide and self‐harm: intentionality, rationality and authenticity	11
Review: Interventions addressing loneliness amongst university students: a systematic review	11
Debate: Standing up for science – how to combat misinformation in child mental health? Evidence and ideology in gender dysphoria research	11
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Narrative Matters: Gustav Mahler – music as a source of meaning and healing in the face of adversity and inequality	9
Short Research Article: Promoting digital citizenship through a school‐based intervention in early adolescence in Perú (a pilot quasi‐experimental study)	9
Digital safeguarding incidents in schools with and without smartphone policies: a cross‐sectional study in England	9
“All that I've been through has made me who I am”: youth conceptualisations of personal recovery in mental health	9
Clinical research updates	9
Issue Information	9
Prospective association of device‐based physical activity and sedentary time during childhood with mental health outcomes during adolescence	9
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	9
Differences in body mass index trajectories of adolescent psychiatric inpatients by sex, age, diagnosis and medication: an exploratory longitudinal, mixed effects analysis	9
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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	8
Debate: Responses to commentaries – neurodiversity, autism and healthcare	8
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	8
Self‐harm, suicidal ideation, depression and peer relationships in transgender and gender diverse adolescents accessing specialist mental health services	8
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Longitudinal effects of green, blue, and gray spaces on early adolescent mental health in the United States	7
Debate: Conduct disorder and the segregation of child mental health	7
The moderation effect of mental health services use on the relationship between exposures to adverse childhood experiences and mental health outcomes among US adolescents	7
Clinical research updates	7
Adolescent mental health in Hong Kong: a longitudinal analysis of positive self‐evaluation, contextual influences and adverse experiences (2009–2014)	7
Editorial: The debate around over‐pathologising young people's mental health	7
Preterm birth, bullying victimization, and mental health in adulthood: A prospective cohort study in Germany	7
Factors that impact mental health help‐seeking in Australian adolescents: a life‐course and socioecological perspective	7
Debate: Standing up for science – how to combat misinformation in child mental health? The imperative to understand and counter mental health misinformation on social media	7
The burden of mental and behavioral health visits to the pediatric ED : A 3‐year tertiary care center experience	7
Editorial: Evidence in the real world – the need for context and the gender gap	7
Issue Information	7
Clinical Research Updates	6
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	6

Assessing the feasibility of a web‐based outcome measurement system in child and adolescent mental health services – myHealthE a randomised controlle	6
Editorial Perspective: Prioritizing child and adolescent mental health research in the context of war	6
Staff Perspectives: Why are adolescent inpatients secluded and what causes changes in rates of seclusion on a unit?	6
Commentary: Interpreting diagnostic data on autism and gender dysphoria: clinical and research implications – a commentary on Sanders et al. (2025)	6
Understanding unusual sensory experiences: a randomised experimental study of a school‐based intervention for adolescents	6
Review: Is a seat at the table enough to safeguard mental health? A global systematic scoping review of the mental health and well‐being impacts of youth participation and engagement	6
Home Fae Home: A case study in co‐designing trauma‐informed community spaces with young people in Dundee, Scotland	6
Review: Co‐occurring psychiatric disorders and symptomatology among children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders – an umbrella review with individual study meta‐analysis	6
Personality functioning in adolescents: exploring the links with childhood maltreatment types and internalizing and externalizing difficulties	6
Adolescents' problematic internet and smartphone use in (cyber)bullying experiences: A network analysis	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	5
Debate: Social media in children and young people – time for a ban? From polarised debate to precautionary action – a population mental health perspective on social media and youth well‐being	5
Editorial: Open science and methods review for Child and Adolescent Mental Health	5
Clinical Research Updates	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
Technology Matters: Online Support and Intervention (OSI) for child anxiety problems – an example of the journey from research to practice	5
Commentary: Safeguarding youth in the smartphone era: rethinking evidence for action – a commentary on Lai et al. (2025)	5
Editorial: Socio‐economic inequality and child and adolescent mental health	5
Debate: Are we over‐pathologising young people's mental health? The case of trauma and PTSD diagnosis	5
Review: School‐based mental health literacy interventions to promote help‐seeking – a systematic review	5
Debate: Academics should collaborate with the technology industry, but not in lieu of noncollaborative research	5
Review: Young people's recovery processes from mental health problems – a scoping review	4
Debate: Social media in children and young people – time for a ban? It is time to take a precautionary approach. Why health professionals are calling for a ban on social media for under‐16s	4
Bridging the gap: unveiling key links between autism and anxiety symptoms in autistic children and youth using a network analysis in pooled data from four countries	4
Debate: ‘Neurodiversity’ – has it outrun its usefulness?	4
Letter to the Editor: Reimagining environmental health for children – integrating longitudinal, genetic, and cross‐cultural perspectives	4
Narrative Matters: Ursula Le Guin's writings and adolescence	4
Debate: Social media in children and young people – time for a ban? Beyond the ban – empowering parents and schools to keep adolescents safe on social media	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
Preventing anxiety in the children of anxious parents – feasibility of a brief, online, group intervention for parents of one‐ to three‐year‐olds	4
Clinical research updates	4
Editorial: Standing up for science – open science versus dis‐information	4
Editorial: Primum non nocere – are adverse events accurately reported in studies on psychological interventions for children?	4
Debate: Young people are living in unprecedented times – too much chaos or too little resilience? Protecting young people in perilous times calls for bolstering multisystem resilience as well as mitig	3
Prevalence, conceptual distinctiveness, and cross‐sectional correlates of climate worry in Canadian adolescents	3
Associations between parental socioeconomic status and mental health in Chinese children: the mediating roles of parenting practices	3
Commentary: Time to abandon the ‘clinical high risk state for psychosis’ ( CHR ‐P) concept in adolescence? Commentary on Frearson et al. ‘Efficacy of	3
Space for youth mental health—coercive measure use before and after architectural innovation at a department of child and adolescent psychiatry	3
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	3
Debate: Young people are living in unprecedented times—too much chaos or too little resilience? Beyond the ‘chaos’ storyline—Modernising resilience frameworks and mental health care for children and y	3
Digital self‐harm and suicidality among adolescents	3
Letter to the editor: A debate with no opponent	3
Coping with peer suicidality, help‐seeking intentions, and suicidal attitudes among Asian adolescents: a mixed‐methods study in Hong Kong	3
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	3
Debate: Urban versus rural environments – which is better for mental health? The one good thing about a small town…	3
Issue Information	3
Review Article: The acceptability and effectiveness of standardised diagnostic assessment approaches in children and young people's mental health services – an updated systematic review	3
‘We wait and we wait’—caregiver perspectives on autism spectrum disorder services in the Western Cape Province of South Africa	3
Review: Crisis responses for children and young people – a systematic review of effectiveness, experiences and service organisation ( CAMH‐Crisis )	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
Debate: Are we overpathologising young people's mental health? Research shows otherwise – mental health conditions are not being recognised or diagnosed in healthcare settings	3
Editorial: ‘Like a bee and a flower’ – the symbiotic relationship between physical environment and children and young people's psychosocial outcomes	2
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	2
Network structure of adolescent social, emotional, and behavioral difficulties and their differential relationships with suicidality	2
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	2
Review: Impact of urgent youth outpatient mental health care on patient and health system outcomes – a scoping review	2
Debate: Neurodiversity, autism and healthcare	2
Commentary: Bridging the gap between emerging harms and evidence‐based care: a commentary on Bucci et al. (2025)	2
Debate: Social media in children and young people – time for a ban? Weighing up the implications and limitations of age‐based social media restrictions	2
Letter to the Editor: ‘It's my ADHD ’	2
Issue Information	2
Letter to the Editor: Who speaks for personal recovery? Methodological reflections on sample representativeness and overlooked heterogeneous voices in an adolescent recovery study	2
Issue Information	2
Commentary: Who gets the credit for “discovering” ADHD and what is the question, really?	2
Short Research Article: Autism spectrum disorder and gender dysphoria among adolescents in a large, integrated health system	2
Narrative Matters: Write the pain away – creative writing therapy for young people	2
Self‐reported changes in adolescent mental health, deliberate self‐harm, substance use, and help‐seeking behavior before and after the COVID‐19 pandemic – A Finnish time‐trend study	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	2
Debate: Urban–rural environments – which is better for mental health? Moving beyond urban–rural dichotomies in psychosis risk for young people	2
Short research article: COVID ‐19 and its impact on child and youth mental health service demand in the community and emergency department	2
Psychotic‐like experiences and adverse life events in young people. Does gender matter?	2
Short Research Article: Changes in life functioning in a self‐help, online program for child and adolescent anxiety	2
Issue Information	2
Debate: Involuntary treatment – not whether, but when and what else is needed	2
Debts and experienced financial scarcity: associations with nonsuicidal self‐injury and suicidality in adolescents at risk for psychopathology	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: ‘To seclude or not to seclude, is that the question?’ A commentary on Yurtbasi et al. (2024)	2
Editorial: Control alt delete – technology and children's mental health	2

Debate: More, not less social media content moderation? How to better protect youth mental health online	2
Technology Matters: Digital micro interventions to support parenting: Evaluating time out apps	1
Issue Information	1
Narrative Matters: Wasting away and fed up – dietary battles in history	1
Editorial: Equity, diversity and inclusion in child and adolescent mental health – a perspective from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)	1
Editorial: Advancing equity, diversity and inclusion through culturally sensitive collaboration and training	1
The role of adolescent social inclusion in educational attainment among vulnerable youth	1
Age‐related differences in social media use, online social support, and depressive symptoms in adolescents and emerging adults	1
Editorial: The Cass Review – implications and reassurance for practitioners	1
Maternal anorexia nervosa and risk of mental and neurodevelopmental morbidity in offspring	1
Increasing access to evidence‐based treatment for child anxiety problems: online parent‐led CBT for children identified via schools	1
Narrative Matters: Cultural humility in mental healthcare	1
Russian adolescent mental health in 2002, 2015 and during the COVID ‐19 pandemic in 2021	1
Childhood attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder: socioeconomic inequalities in symptoms, impact, diagnosis and medication	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
The use and potential of artificial intelligence for supporting clinical observation of child behaviour	1
School connectedness mediates the association of social function with depressive symptoms in teenagers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder	1
Technology Matters: The ESSENCE of holistic neurodivergent identification in a digital age	1
Letter to the Editor: Redesigning mental health support for youth – early interventions need to move away from the diagnostic model	1
Editorial: Child and adolescent mental health research in a digital age: missed opportunities and overlooked threats	1
Review: School‐based interventions for child and adolescent survivors of natural disasters – a systematic review and meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials	1
Issue Information	1
Debate: Involuntary treatment and detention are a necessary part of mental health care – a perspective from low and middle‐income countries	1
Learning outcomes in primary school children with emotional problems: a prospective cohort study	1
The protective role of community cohesion across rural and urban contexts: implications for youth mental health	1
Review: Adverse event monitoring and reporting in studies of pediatric psychosocial interventions: a systematic review	1
Commentary: Where to next for universal school‐based mental health interventions? Don't through the baby out with the bathwater	1
Review: Can digital mental health interventions bridge the ‘digital divide’ for socioeconomically and digitally marginalised youth? A systematic review	1
Issue Information	1
Review: Improving access to mental health interventions for children from birth to five years: A Scoping Review	1
Narrative Matters: Adolescence in The Manosphere – A perfect storm?	1
Debate: Child and adolescent mental health services: time to take the lead in prevention of psychosis in youth	1
Commentary: Bringing together lived experience, clinical and research expertise – a commentary on the May 2022 debate (should CAMH professionals be d	1
Narrative Matters: Young people with lived experience discuss I Swear	1
Debate: Should academics collaborate with social media and gaming companies to identify and reduce mental health impacts on children and young people?	1
Debate: Response to “Should academics collaborate with digital companies to improve young people's mental health”	1
Review: Interventions to prevent or manage self‐harm among students in educational settings – a systematic review	1
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Commentary: Against the widespread use of other types of PD diagnosis – a commentary on the May 2022 debate (should CAMH	1
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Development, preliminary validation and reliability of the colourful ‘My Feelings Form’ self‐report for young children	1
Debate: Should academics collaborate with digital companies to improve young people's mental health?	1
Debate: We need data infrastructure as well as data sharing – conflicts of interest in video game research	1
Debate: Young people are living in unprecedented times – too much chaos or too little resilience?: No Pain, No Gain? Why articulating distress marks youth resilience	1
Debate: Bridging the gap – role of nonspecialists in child and adolescent mental health care	1
DEBATE : The inevitable decline of mindfulness	1
Review: Social media use and adolescent mental health – an umbrella review and power analysis	1
Young people's online communication and its association with mental well‐being: results from the 2019 student health and well‐being survey	1
Response: Personality disorder is here to stay across the lifespan – a response to Commentaries on the May 2022 Debate	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
Intergenerational consequences of racism in the United Kingdom: a qualitative investigation into parents' exposure to racism and offspring mental health and well‐being	1
Letter to the Editor: Nuanced considerations on the association between childhood movement behaviors and adolescent mental health	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