Journal Of The American Academy Of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry

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 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. June 2021; pages 672–674.

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 Psychiatry. May 2021; pages 573–586.

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: 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.