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Dimensions of cognition, behaviour, and mental health in struggling learners: A spotlight on girls
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “Gender biases to stereotypically male behaviours are prevalent among practitioners, even when the focus is on identifying cognitive and learning difficulties. This underscores the need to include cognitive and female-representative criteria in diagnostic systems to identify girls whose difficulties could go easily undetected.” Jacalyn Guy (pic) et al.
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Paternal perinatal stress is associated with children’s emotional problems at 2 years
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Rates of help-seeking among fathers is low, possibly due to conceptualising their own difficulties as stress rather than problems with mood”. Fiona L. Challacombe (pic) et al.
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Research Review: Seven reasons why binary diagnostic categories should be replaced with empirically sounder and less stigmatizing dimensions
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “An ongoing positive revolution advocates a new approach to the individual differences in human emotions, cognitions, and behavior that cause distress and impair functioning”. Benjamin B. Lahey (pic) et al.
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Editorial Perspective: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder viewed as neuro-divergence in the digital world
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “In this editorial we place attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in digital context”. Edmund Sonuga-Barke (pic) and Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne
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Transdiagnostic profiles of behaviour and communication relate to academic and socioemotional functioning and neural white matter organisation
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Behavioural and language difficulties co-occur in multiple neurodevelopmental conditions. Our understanding of these problems has arguably been slowed by an overreliance on study designs that compare diagnostic groups and fail to capture the overlap across different neurodevelopmental disorders and the heterogeneity within them”. Silvana Mareva (pic) et al.
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JCPP Advances: Volume 02, Issue 03, September 2022
JCPP Advances September Issue is now available to read.
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Research Review: Effects of parenting programs for children’s conduct problems on children’s emotional problems – a network meta-analysis
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Specific programs are often implemented for specific child mental health problems, while many children suffer from comorbid problems”. John Kjøbli(pic) et al.
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Increased diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder despite stable hyperactive/inattentive behaviours: evidence from two birth cohorts of Australian children
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “We directly compared ADHD diagnoses with ADHD-related behaviours and looked for changes across time among Australian children in a large, population-based prospective cohort study”. Luise Kazda (pic) et al.
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Preschool development, temperament and genetic liability as early markers of childhood ADHD: A cohort study
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “The present study sets out to identify early markers and developmental characteristics during the first 30 months of life that are associated with ADHD 6 years later”. Esther Tobarra-Sanchez (pic) et al.,
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Editorial Perspective: Are treatments for childhood mental disorders helpful in the long run? An overview of systematic reviews
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Mental disorders may have severe consequences for individuals across their entire lifespan, especially when they start in childhood. Effective treatments (both psychosocial and pharmacological) exist for the short-term treatment of common mental disorders in young people”. Annelieke M. Roest (pic) et al.
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