Chronotype and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence

In this Papers Podcast, Dimitris Tsomokos discusses his JCPP Advances paper ‘Chronotype and depression in adolescence: Results from a UK birth cohort study’. Dimitris is the first author of the paper. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.

17 June 2024

2023 Top 10 Downloaded Journal Papers

After another successful year for our three journals, the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry (JCPP), the Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal, and JCPP Advances, we are proud to present the top 10 most downloaded papers for each journal, published in 2023, as of 27 November 2023.

7 December 2023

Adolescent psychotic experiences before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a prospective cohort study

Paper from the JCPP – ‘The Tokyo Teen Cohort (TTC) is a prospective cohort study of adolescents in the general population of the Tokyo metropolitan area, followed from age 10 to 16 years. We used multi-level linear regression models to test the associations between the phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and self-reported PEs.’ Jordan DeVylder et al.

13 November 2023

ACAMH Awards 2023 Results

Congratulations to all winners and nominees of the ACAMH Awards 2023.

9 November 2023

Narrative Matters: Wasting away and fed up – dietary battles in history

Paper from the CAMH journal – ‘Histories of anorexia nervosa (AN), mostly written since the 1970s, have a standard narrative. The story is of largely Eurocentric self-starvation in adolescent girls in response to sociocultural pressures on women who are trapped in disempowering patriarchal systems.’ Jane Whittaker

28 October 2023

Personality Function, Dysfunction, and the Social Domains Organisation of Mentalizing Processes

In this three-part Papers Podcast, Professor Jonathan Hill discusses his JCPP paper ‘The social domains organization of mentalizing processes in adolescents: a contribution to the conceptualization of personality function and dysfunction in young people’.

This three-part podcast explores the controversy surrounding personality function and dysfunction, focuses on mentalizing, the mentalizing processes, and social domains, and provides an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.

23 October 2023

ACAMH Awards 2023 Nominees Shortlist

See who made the nominees shortlist for the 2023 ACAMH Awards.

10 October 2023

Performing well but not appreciating it – A trait feature of anorexia nervosa

Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘We offer a novel behavioral method for measuring perfectionism independent of self-report, and we provide tentative evidence that this behavioral manifestation of perfectionism is evident during first-episode AN and persists even after recovery.’ Tine Schuppli Hjerresen et al.

20 September 2023

Children with maltreatment exposure exhibit rumination-like spontaneous thought patterns: association with symptoms of depression, subcallosal cingulate cortex thickness, and cortisol levels

Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘We studied the impact of maltreatment on self-generated thought (SGT) patterns and their association with depressive symptoms, subcallosal cingulate cortex (SCC) thickness, and cortisol levels in children.’ Ferdinand Hoffmann et al.

4 July 2023

Editorial: What’s in a name? Drawing on the examples of autism and schizophrenia, some reflections on diagnostic labels and their future role in child and adolescent psychiatry

Free Access paper from the JCPP – ‘The diagnostic labels that children and adolescents receive feed into their treatment access and future potential but also to their self-identities. […] the choice of labels used in child and adolescent psychiatry should remain a priority, in light of their impact on translational science, treatment and on individuals, alongside the ever-evolving nature of language itself’. Angelica Ronald (pic)

7 June 2023