Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

JAACAP June 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Jesse Hinckley interviews Dr. James D. Lock about a study investigating the addition of 3 sessions of intensive parentalcoaching intervention to family-based treatment among youth with anorexia who did not gain adequate weight early in treatment, a predictor ofrecovery by the end of treatment.

JAACAP May 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Aarya K. Rajalakshmi interviews Dr. Mariko Hosozawa on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent mental health, and a comparison of depressive symptoms among 16-year-olds surveyed, at a fourth wave, before or during the pandemic, while accounting for expected trajectories of within-person change based on 3 prior waves.

JAACAP April 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Jack L. Turban interviews Ms. Maria Jose Luna, MS, and Linda A. Teplin, PhD, on a prospective longitudinal study usingdata from the Northwestern Juvenile Project that examines whether youth with mental health disorders receive needed services after they left juveniledetention, up to median age 32 years.

JAACAP March 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Apurva Bhatt interviews Dr. Christopher J. Hammond on the need to further study the public health effects of changing cannabis policies on youth and to consider evidence-informed legislative reforms to mitigate the risk for harm in vulnerable populations.

JAACAP February 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Rana Elmaghraby interviews Dr. Miriam P. Rubenson on a systematic review of the current scientific literature on the effectiveness of Partial Hospitalization Programs for high-risk adolescents with mental health problems.

JAACAP January 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Deepika Shaligram interviews Dr. Emilio A. Valadez on a fMRI follow-up of a randomized clinical trial where 8- to 12-yearolds whose parents received Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) intervention when children were infants showed more matured patterns ofbrain connectivity and brain activation than children whose parents received a control inte...

JAACAP December 2023: Contributing Editor Dr. Aviva K. Olsavsky interviews Mr. Rickard Ahlberg on an examination of height in 14,268 males aged 18 years with ADHDbefore and after ADHD medications were available in Sweden.

JAACAP November 2023: Contributing Editor Dr. Nicole K. Cotton interviews Dr. Irwin Sandler on the developmental pathways through which the Family BereavementProgram (FBP) reduces major depression and generalized anxiety disorder 15 years later.

JAACAP October 2023: Contributing Editor Dr. Jung W. Kim interviews Dr. Wanjiku F.M. Njoroge on impacts of stressors during neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalization on mother and child health at child age 5.

JAACAP September 2023: Contributing Editor Dr. Alastair J. McKean interviews Dr. Randy P. Auerbach on an intensive longitudinal assessment through the use of personal smartphones that offers a feasible method to assess variability in adolescents’ emotional experiences and suicide risk.

JAACAP August 2023: Contributing Editor Dr. Carol Vidal interviews Dr. Katherine E. Venturo-Conerly on a meta-analysis that highlights the potential benefits of youthpsychotherapy in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) as well as the need for more studies of youth psychotherapy in LMICs.

JAACAP July 2023: Contributing Editor Dr. Desiree Shapiro interviews Dr. Deborah M. Weisbrot on a study aimed to describe students who make threats, factorsprompting psychiatric interventions, and treatment recommendations.

JAACAP June 2023: Contributing Editor Dr. Aviva K. Olsavsky interviews Dr. Hyo-Won Kim on the impact of media on nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) behaviors and how responsible media coverage of NSSI and appropriate guidelines may help prevent increases in self-harm.

JAACAP May 2023: Contributing Editor Dr. Nicole King Cotton interviews Drs. Adriana Fortea and Gisela Sugranyes on how transitions to psychosis in adolescence are associated with changes in longitudinal trajectory of brain cortical surface area.

JAACAP April 2023: Contributing Editor Dr. Jung W. Kim interviews Dr. Carles Soriano-Mas on associations between structural features of specific brain regions andresponse to psychological treatments, and how they may be more easily observed in developing brains. These results should serve to better define the brain circuits relevant for CBT success, and therefore optimize the clinical management o...

JAACAP March 2023: Contributing Editor Dr. Alastair J. McKean interviews Dr. Andre Sourander on a cross-sectional study that compared war experiences, PTSD, anxiety, and depression in 2,766 adolescents aged 11 to 17 living in the war-torn Donetsk region and peaceful regions of Ukraine, more than 2 years after Russia first invaded in 2014.

JAACAP February 2023: Contributing Editor Dr. Carol Vidal interviews Dr. Mara Parellada on the efficacy of pharmacological interventions for irritability and emotional dysregulation in autism spectrum disorder and predictors of response.

JAACAP January 2023: Contributing Editor Dr. Desiree Shapiro interviews Dr. Giorgia Michelini on the investigation of the neural mechanisms underlying medication effects using cortical source analysis of electroencephalography (EEG) data.

JAACAP December 2022: Contributing Editor Dr. Aviva K. Olsavsky interviews Dr. Virginia Carter Leno on the results from a community-based sample that suggests psychiatric symptoms in autistic youth exhibit substantial developmental continuity and thus highlight the importance of early screening and intervention.

JAACAP November 2022: Contributing Editor Dr. Nicole King Cotton interviews Prof. Dr. Anja Goertz-Dorten on a randomized controlled trial comparing the efficacy oftherapist-led, computer-assisted social skills training to a resource activation intervention in a clinical sample of 100 children (6-12 years) with disruptivebehavior disorders and elevated levels of peer-related aggression.

JAACAP October 2022: Contributing Editor Dr. Jung W. Kim interviews Dr. Nicole R. Karcher on examining factors that may account for race/ethnicity differences inpsychotic-like experiences (PLEs) in a middle childhood sample, including evidence for experiences of discrimination as a psychosocial mediator of thesedifferences.

JAACAP September 2022: Contributing Editor Dr. Alastair J. McKean interviews Dr. Kiara Alvarez on recommendations for what states, counties, cities, and mental healthsystems can do to promote antiracist evidence-based practices in children’s mental health.

JAACAP August 2022: Contributing Editor Dr. Carol Vidal interviews Dr. William E. Copeland on study data from the 25-year Great Smoky Mountains Study to test the "intervention as prevention" hypothesis: that treatment of childhood psychopathology in the community might reduce risk for adult psychopathology.

JAACAP July 2022: Contributing Editor Dr. Desiree Shapiro interviews Dr. Jean A. Frazier on evaluating the prevalence, co-occurrence, sex differences, and functional correlates of DSM-5 psychiatric disorders in 15-year-old adolescents born extremely preterm.

JAACAP June 2022: Contributing Editor Dr. Aviva K. Olsavsky interviews Dr. Maggi A. Price on a spatial meta-analysis that examines whether anti-Black cultural racism moderates the efficacy of psychotherapy interventions among youth.