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JCPP Journal
Bringing together empirical research, clinical studies and reviews in order to advance how we understand and approach child and adolescent mental health. Twitter @TheJCPP
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JCPP – Volume 58, Issue 8, August 2017 – Editorial: Let’s talk about sex – the gender binary revisited
Albertine J. Oldehinkel
Background
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Sex refers to biological differences and gender to socioculturally delineated masculine and feminine roles. Sex or gender are included as a covariate or effect modifier in the majority of child psychology and psychiatry studies, and differences found between boys and girls have inspired many researchers to postulate underlying mechanisms. -
Annual Research Review: On the developmental neuropsychology of substance use disorders
The researchers identify certain neurocognitive and personality/comorbidity-based risk factors for the onset of substance misuse during adolescence, and summarise the evidence suggesting that these risk factors may be further impacted by the direct effect of drugs on the underlying neural circuits implicated in substance misuse vulnerability.
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Commentary: Self-harm: a global health priority – reflections on Brunner et al. (2014)
The accompanying cross-sectional study by Brunner et al. (2014) investigates the prevalence and correlates of self-injury in adolescents. It is one of the largest epidemiological studies of its kind published to date.
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JCPP – Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2013 – Annual Research Review: Positive adjustment to adversity
Research on resilience in the aftermath of potentially traumatic life events (PTE), particularly minimal-impact resilience and emergent resilience.
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Brain structure abnormalities in adolescent girls with conduct disorder
The research team observed structural abnormalities in brain regions involved in emotion processing, reward and empathy in female adolescents with CD, which broadly overlap with those reported in previous studies of CD in male adolescents.
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