Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

JAACAP February 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Nicole King Cotton interviews Dr. Jocelyn I. Meza on 6 specific recommendations regarding research and clinical practices that can advance clinical science around suicide prevention and intervention for minoritized youths.

JAACAP January 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Jung W. Kim and Dr. Eraka Bath discuss understudied but increasing suicide in African American youths, and the need for child and adolescent psychiatrists to develop work groups to address the problem from prevention, to assessment, and to intervention.

JAACAP December 2020: Contributing Editor Jerome H. Taylor interviews Dr. Emily Simonoff on first-time use of a longitudinal population-based autism cohort to chart the trajectories of cognition and autism symptoms from childhood to early adulthood and identify features that predict the level of function and change with development.

JAACAP November 2020: Contributing Editor Dr. Gerrit van Schalkwyk interviews Dr. Maria Elizabeth Loades to discuss and assess existing research that has looked at social isolation and loneliness in young people.

JAACAP October 2020: Contributing Editor Dr. Kara Bagot interviews Drs. Heather J. Walter and A. Reese Abright on on the first in a new series of AACAP Clinical Practice Guidelines that addresses the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents.

JAACAP September 2020: Dr. John Erik Leikauf interviews Dr. Lynsay Ayer on the problem of child suicide and provides recommendations with ethical considerations for future research and practice.

JAACAP August 2020: Translating Discoveries in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Genomics to an Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Cohort

JAACAP July 2020: Dr. Marika Inga Wrzosek interviews Dr. Holly Alice Bear to discuss outcomes of routine treatment for anxiety and depression in youth.

JAACAP June 2020: Contributing Editor Dr. Jerome H. Taylor interviews Dr. Theresa S. Betancourt on the associations of war and postconflict factors with mental health among Sierra Leone's former child soldiers as adults.

JAACAP May 2020: Associate Editor Dr. Robert R. Althoff interviews AACAP President Dr. Gabrielle A. Carlson on changes in PRN psychotropic medication use to manage severe aggression on a children's psychiatric inpatient unit.

JAACAP April 2020: Contributing Editor Dr. Kara Bagot interviews Mss. Ilango and McManus on the unmet need for mental and behavioral health services among children, adolescents, and young adults in the US.

JAACAP March 2020: Contributing Editor Dr. John Erik Leikauf interviews Dr. Kenneth Towbin on the effects of adding citalopram to methylphenidate in the treatment of chronic severe irritability in youth using a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled design.

JAACAP February 2020: Contributing Editor Dr. Christopher Hammond interviews Dr. Jeffrey A. Bridge on the association between the release of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why and suicide rates in the United States.

JAACAP January 2020: Contributing Editor Dr. Gerrit van Schalkwyk interviews Dr. Dikla Eckshtain on the need for treatment development and research to improve both immediate and longer-term benefits in depressed youths.

JAACAP December 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Jerome H. Taylor interviews Dr. William E. Copeland on the relative contributions of pubertal timing, pubertal status, and sex hormones on the increases in female depression.

JAACAP Contributing Editor Dr. Gerrit van Schalkwyk interviews Dr. Tonya J.H. White on her In Context article, which discusses the role of stochastic, or chance, events that take place during neurodevelopment. 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Gerrit van Schalkwyk interviews Dr. Tonya J.H. White on her In Context article, which discusses the role of stochastic, or chance, events that take place during...

JAACAP October 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Kara Bagot interviews Dr. Shawn S. Sidhu on his Clinical Perspectives article, which discusses how child and adolescent psychiatrists can effectively help children and families with an undocumented parent.

JAACAP September 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. John Erik Leikauf interviews Dr. Sally J. Rogers on a randomized treatment study of the effects of 27 months of an intervention for early autism (ages 14-27 months), compared to 2 years of community intervention.

JAACAP August 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Christopher Hammond interviews Dr. William R. Beardslee on the problem of depression in families and intervention approaches that address parental depression on its own and in the context of treating mental illness in children.

JAACAP July 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Marika Inga Wrzosek interviews Dr. Stewart Adelson on a how healthcare chaplains can collaborate with psychiatrists and other healthcare professionals to support mental and physical health among LGBT youth.

JAACAP June 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Jerome H. Taylor interviews Dr. Deborah Gross on a randomized pragmatic trial comparing the effectiveness and cost of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy or the Chicago Parent Program to reduce child behavior problems.

JAACAP May 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Gerrit van Schalkwyk interviews Dr. Jess P. Shatkin on the opportunity and responsibility to engage in mental health promotion and disease prevention.

JAACAP April 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Kara S. Bagot interviews Dr. James J. McGough on trigeminal nerve stimulation, a potential new non-medication treatment for ADHD.

JAACAP March 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. John Erik Leikauf interviews Dr. Emily D. Gerstein how maternal depression and stress in the NICU can have lasting impacts on multiple parenting behaviors.

JAACAP February 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Christopher Hammond interviews Dr. Patty Leijten on identifying what parents need to be taught to reduce disruptive child behavior.