Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

JAACAP May 2022: Contributing Editor Dr. Nicole King Cotton interviews Dr. Arielle H. Sheftall on current trends and precipitating circumstances of suicide by sex and age group in Black youth 5 to 17 years of age, using 2 national databases, the Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) and the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS).

JAACAP April 2022: Contributing Editor Dr. Jung W. Kim interviews Dr. Tycho J. Dekkers on a meta-regression analysis investigating which specific behavioraltechniques parents learn in parent training, and how they are associated with effects on parental outcomes.

JAACAP March 2022: Contributing Editor Dr. Alastair J. McKean interviews Dr. Lily Hechtman on adult outcome of people with ADHD diagnosed in childhood and its several key predictors via a review of 7 North American controlled prospective follow-up studies: Montreal, New York, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Berkeley, and 7-site Multimodal Treatment Study of Children Wi...

JAACAP February 2022: Contributing Editor Dr. Carol Vidal interviews Dr. Prudence W. Fisher on a systematic review of literature on nonverbal learning disability (NVLD), revealing great heterogeneity in criteria used to define NVLD and important methodological limitations in most research studies.

JAACAP January 2022: Contributing Editor Dr. Desiree Shapiro interviews Drs. Jennifer L. Vande Voort and Paul E. Croarkin on evaluating the clinical impact of combinatorial pharmacogenetics testing in a double-blind, randomized, controlled effectiveness study for the pharmacologic treatment of adolescents with depression.

JAACAP December 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Aviva K. Olsavsky interviews Dr. Friederike I. Tam and Prof. Dr. Stefan Ehrlich on inspiring more research on nutritional interventions in anorexia nervosa and evidence for possible short-term adverse effects of current refeeding practices on the metabolic state.

JAACAP November 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Carol Vidal interviews Professor Tony Charman on the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a group behavioral parentingintervention for emotional and behavioral problems in young autistic children.

JAACAP October 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Desiree Shapiro interviews Dr. Kairi Kolves on a systematic review of extracted literature from 5 electronic databases to determine the status of research into the use of helplines among young people.

JAACAP September 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Alastair J. McKean interviews Dr. Katherine L. Kivisto on the increased risk of adolescent suicide associated with household firearm ownership.

JAACAP August 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Nicole King Cotton interviews Dr. Katherine E. MacDuffie on decisions about predictive genetic testing for children.

JAACAP July 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Jung W. Kim interviews Drs. L. Eugene Arnold and Roger deBeus on if theta/beta-ratio (TBR) electroencephalographic biofeedback (neurofeedback [NF]) has a specific effect on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) beyond nonspecific benefit.

JAACAP June 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Aviva Olsavsky interviews Dr. Jonathan Posner on understanding the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders and how this knowledge can inform strategies for identifying high-risk individuals, early intervention, and development of personalized treatment approaches. Genetic Studies of Mental Illness: Are Children Being Left Behind? Journal of the Ameri...

JAACAP May 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Carol Vidal interviews Dr. Cristiane S. Duarte on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and their continuity since childhood among young adults from the same ethnic group living in 2 low-income contexts. Development, Psychopathology, and Ethnicity II: Psychiatric Disorders Among Young Adults. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychia...

JAACAP April 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Desiree Shapiro interviews Dr. Manpreet K. Singh on the comparison of intrinsic network connectivity in symptomatic youths at high risk for bipolar disorder and healthy comparison youths.

JAACAP March 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Alastair J. McKean interviews Dr. Lauren Brookman-Frazee on the impact of training therapists to deliver AIM HI, an individualized mental health intervention for children with ASD and challenging behaviors.

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: Dr. Christopher Hammond interviews Dr. Alysa E. Doyle on the scientific foundation for studies of ADHD polygenic risk in the clinical setting,  highlighting directions for further research.

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.