Child development
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Are restricted and repetitive behaviours in two- and six-year-olds associated with emotional and behavioural difficulties?
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘This study aimed to characterize the association of distinct RRB subtypes at two and six years of age, with internalising and externalising difficulties in a community sample of children.’ Sarah J. Carrington (pic) et al.
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Heterogeneity in Children’s Reading Comprehension Difficulties
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Emma James discusses her JCPP Advances paper ‘Heterogeneity in children’s reading comprehension difficulties: A latent class approach’. Emma is the lead author of the paper.
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Effects of engaging fathers and bundling parenting and nutrition interventions on early child development and maternal and paternal parenting in Mara, Tanzania: a factorial cluster-randomized controlled trial
Paper from the JCPP – ‘We compared the independent and combined effects of engaging fathers and bundling parenting components into a nutrition intervention on early child development (ECD) and parenting outcomes.’ Joshua Jeong (pic) et al.
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 64, Issue 09, September 2023
Editorial: “Generative artificial intelligence and the ecology of human development” by Carlo Schuengel and Alastair van Heerden
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Measurement bias in caregiver-report of early childhood behavior problems across demographic factors in an ECHO-wide diverse sample
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘While studies have shown that demographic variables influence caregiver ratings of behavior problems, the extent to which the CBCL/1.5-5 functions equivalently at the item level across diverse samples is unknown.’ Shuting Zheng (pic) et al.
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Practitioner Review: Neurobiological consequences of childhood maltreatment – clinical and therapeutic implications for practitioners
Paper from the JCPP – ‘In this report, we explore key validated alterations in brain structure, function, and connectivity associated with exposure to childhood maltreatment as potential mechanisms behind their patients’ clinical presentations.’ Jacqueline A. Samson (pic) et al.
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Transdiagnostic Profiles of Behaviour and Communication: Academic and Socioemotional Functioning and Neural White Matter Organisation
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Silvana Mareva discusses her JCPP paper ‘Transdiagnostic profiles of behaviour and communication relate to academic and socioemotional functioning and neural white matter organisation’. Silvana is the first author of the paper.
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Socioeconomic status and risk for child psychopathology: exploring gene–environment interaction in the presence of gene–environment correlation using extended families in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Birth Cohort Study
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘We applied a novel approach using extended family data to investigate the moderation of aetiological influences on child emotional and behavioural problems by parental socioeconomic status in the presence of modelled gene–environment correlation.’ Isabella Badini (pic) et al.
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Transactional associations of child irritability and anxiety with parent psychological control in Taiwanese school-aged children
Open Access JCPP Advances paper – ‘Child irritability and anxiety are associated with parent psychological control; yet their transactional relations over time are not well-characterized at the within-person level. Research addressing generalizability of past Western-based literature in non-Western, collectivist community samples is lacking.’ Ka Shu Lee (pic) et al.
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Medically assisted reproduction and mental health in adolescence: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘The number and proportion of children conceived through medically assisted reproduction (MAR) is steadily increasing yet the evidence on their mental health in adolescence is inconclusive’. Maria Palma et al.
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