Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Causal modeling reveals school aversion as both a consequence and driver of multiple psychiatric risks in clinically referred adolescents, suggesting targets for clinical intervention.

Study validates a Chinese measure of parental psychological control with three dimensions, establishing its consistency across parent and adolescent informants and over 6-month interval.

Study evaluates large language models' ability to help parents assess video appropriateness for children under 7, finding models work better as descriptive aids than standalone decision-makers.

Retrospective analysis of 56 juvenile delinquents examining relationships between offense types and psychosocial clinical factors in a high-security forensic psychiatric setting.

CME training model produces durable improvements in primary care clinicians' readiness to deliver pediatric mental health services, with reliable measurement tool for evaluating training outcomes.

Study evaluates a classroom-based social-emotional learning program for kindergarten children, showing significant improvements in assertiveness, self-control, cooperation, and reduced behavioral.

Systematic review of school-based psychoeducational programs for bullying reduction and self-esteem improvement, examining how contextual factors and family involvement influence effectiveness.

Scoping review of 36 studies examining diathesis-stress, differential susceptibility, and vantage sensitivity models in predicting adult mental health outcomes and environmental sensitivity effects.

Qualitative study of parental experiences waiting for ADHD assessment in child mental health services, examining emotional impact of diagnostic uncertainty and delay.

Study of 100 girls examines links between parenting style, self-esteem, and social anxiety, finding authoritative parenting predicts higher anxiety while permissive approaches show protective effects.

A five-year longitudinal study reveals distinct executive function mechanisms linking different childhood psychopathic trait dimensions to conduct problems.

Systematic review and meta-analysis of mentalization and mental health outcomes in adolescents with internalizing disorders, revealing a moderate association.

Neural fMRI patterns predict treatment response in depression and anxiety through emotion regulation pathways, offering insights for precision medicine approaches.

Longitudinal study examining heterogeneous harsh parenting profiles and associations with non-suicidal self-injury in young adults via parental alienation and core self-evaluation.

Repeated exposure with brief support modestly improves self-appraisal in children with social anxiety disorder, though distorted self-evaluation persists as a core clinical feature.

Jump Start mental health consultation reduces preschool suspensions and expulsions in Miami-Dade County early care centers through improved discipline policies and social-emotional support.

Cohort study demonstrating association between adverse childhood experiences and treatment-resistant depression, independent of familial confounding factors.

Study of 70 countries over 33 years reveals cultural shifts toward independence linked to higher childhood anxiety in Western nations, while religious faith emphasis correlates with lower anxiety.

Study examines how parents' childhood invalidation experiences affect children's prosocial behavior through emotion coping styles, identifying three distinct family profiles in 837 Shanghai families.

Study examining how paternal economic stress influences preschoolers' problem behaviors through depression and unsupportive emotional responses in South Korean families.