Journal Of The American Academy Of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry

JAACAP January 2025: Contributing Editor Dr. Apurva Bhatt interviews Dr. Anne E. de Leeuw on a study that found women with a migration background reported more stress during pregnancy and more autistic traits in their children six years later than mothers without a migration background.

JAACAP November 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Jesse Hinckley interviews Dr. Margarita Alegría on the powerful methods of combining yearly and daily time data to investigate how and for whom discrimination-related stressors lead to adverse outcomes.

JAACAP October 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Rana Elmaghraby interviews Dr. Gregory A. Aarons about measurement-based care (MBC), which collects session-by-session symptom data from patients and provides clinicians with feedback on treatment response.

JAACAP September 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Narpinder Malhi interviews Dr. Michele S. Berk about a study evaluating rates of remission, recovery, relapse, and recurrence in suicidal youth who participated in a clinical trial comparing Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Individual and Group Supportive Therapy (IGST).

JAACAP August 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Apurva Bhatt interviews Dr. Joel T. Nigg on a systematic review and meta-analysis that included 13 studies and found that white/pink noise improved cognitive performance for children and young adults with ADHD or high ADHD symptoms.

JAACAP July 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Rana Elmaghraby interviews Dr. Jordan A. Freeman on a Hybrid Type-II Implementation-Effectiveness trial conducted in Sierra Leone where researchers tested a Collaborative Team Approach (CTA) for delivering an evidence-based mental health intervention, the Youth Readiness Intervention (YRI), within a youth entrepreneurship program.

JAACAP June 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Jesse Hinckley interviews Dr. James D. Lock about a study investigating the addition of 3 sessions of intensive parental coaching intervention to family-based treatment among youth with anorexia who did not gain adequate weight early in treatment, a predictor of recovery 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 using data from the Northwestern Juvenile Project that examines whether youth with mental health disorders receive needed services after they left juvenile detention, 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 of brain connectivity and brain activation than children whose parents received a control intervention.

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 ADHD before 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 Bereavement Program (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 youth psychotherapy 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, factors prompting 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.