Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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Each month JAACAP highlights a selected article found within the pages of the Journal by providing a podcast interview with the author. Tune in regularly to this feature of JAACAP, where we strive for a relaxed 'fireside chat' atmosphere in which authors can share aspects of their science that we are less often privy to. Podcasts are typically 15 to 20 minutes in length.

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The Ethics of Predicting Au...

07.21.2021

JAACAP August 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Nicole King Cotton interviews Dr. Katherine E. MacDuffie on decisions about predictive genetic testing for children.

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry episodes:

07.21.2021 The Ethics of Predicting Autism Spectrum Disorder in Infancy: JAACAP August 2021 JAACAP August 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Nicole King Cotton interviews Dr. Katherine E. MacDuffie on decisions about predictive genetic testing for children.
06.23.2021 Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Randomized Clinical Trial of Neurofeedback for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder With 13-Month Follow-up: JAACAP July 2021 JAACAP July 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Jung W. Kim interviews Drs. L. Eugene Arnold and Roger deBeus on if theta/beta-ratio (TBR) electroencephalographic biofeedback (neurofeedback [NF]) has a specific effect on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) beyond nonspecific benefit.
06.03.2021 Genetic Studies of Mental Illness: Are Children Being Left Behind? : JAACAP June 2021 JAACAP June 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Aviva Olsavsky interviews Dr. Jonathan Posner on understanding the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders and how this knowledge can inform strategies for identifying high-risk individuals, early intervention, and development of personalized treatment approaches. Genetic ...
04.29.2021 Development, Psychopathology, and Ethnicity II: Psychiatric Disorders Among Young Adults: JAACAP May 2021 JAACAP May 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Carol Vidal interviews Dr. Cristiane S. Duarte on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and their continuity since childhood among young adults from the same ethnic group living in 2 low-income contexts. Development, Psychopathology, and ...
03.26.2021 Changes in Intrinsic Brain Connectivity in Family-Focused Therapy Versus Standard Psychoeducation Among Youths at High Risk for Bipolar Disorder: JAACAP April 2021 JAACAP April 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Desiree Shapiro interviews Dr. Manpreet K. Singh on the comparison of intrinsic network connectivity in symptomatic youths at high risk for bipolar disorder and healthy comparison youths.
02.23.2021 Training Community Therapists to Deliver an Individualized Mental Health Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Changes in Caregiver Outcomes and Mediating Role on Child Outcomes : JAACAP March 20 JAACAP March 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Alastair J. McKean interviews Dr. Lauren Brookman-Frazee on the impact of training therapists to deliver AIM HI, an individualized mental health intervention for children with ASD and challenging behaviors.
01.26.2021 One Size Does Not Fit All: Making Suicide Prevention and Interventions Equitable for Our Increasingly Diverse Communities: JAACAP February 2021 JAACAP February 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Nicole King Cotton interviews Dr. Jocelyn I. Meza on 6 specific recommendations regarding research and clinical practices that can advance clinical science around suicide prevention and intervention for minoritized youths.
12.18.2020 Coloring Outside the Lines: Making Black and Brown Lives Matter in the Prevention of Youth Suicide: JAACAP January 2021 JAACAP January 2021: Contributing Editor Dr. Jung W. Kim and Dr. Eraka Bath discuss understudied but increasing suicide in African American youths, and the need for child and adolescent psychiatrists to develop work groups to address the problem from prevention, ...
11.30.2020 Trajectories in Symptoms of Autism and Cognitive Ability in Autism From Childhood to Adult Life: Findings From a Longitudinal Epidemiological Cohort: JAACAP December 2020 JAACAP December 2020: Contributing Editor Jerome H. Taylor interviews Dr. Emily Simonoff on first-time use of a longitudinal population-based autism cohort to chart the trajectories of cognition and autism symptoms from childhood to early adulthood and identify features that predict ...
10.27.2020 Rapid Systematic Review: The Impact of Social Isolation and Loneliness on the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in the Context of COVID-19: JAACAP November 2020 JAACAP November 2020: Contributing Editor Dr. Gerrit van Schalkwyk interviews Dr. Maria Elizabeth Loades to discuss and assess existing research that has looked at social isolation and loneliness in young people.
09.25.2020 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Anxiety Disorders: JAACAP October 2020 JAACAP October 2020: Contributing Editor Dr. Kara Bagot interviews Drs. Heather J. Walter and A. Reese Abright on on the first in a new series of AACAP Clinical Practice Guidelines that addresses the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders in ...
08.27.2020 Advancing Research in Child Suicide: A Call to Action: JAACAP September 2020 JAACAP September 2020: Dr. John Erik Leikauf interviews Dr. Lynsay Ayer on the problem of child suicide and provides recommendations with ethical considerations for future research and practice.
07.28.2020 Translating Discoveries in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Genomics to an Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Cohort: JAACAP August 2020 JAACAP August 2020: Translating Discoveries in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Genomics to an Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Cohort
06.25.2020 Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Outcomes of Routine Specialist Mental Health Care for Young People With Depression and/or Anxiety: JAACAP July 2020 JAACAP July 2020: Dr. Marika Inga Wrzosek interviews Dr. Holly Alice Bear to discuss outcomes of routine treatment for anxiety and depression in youth.
05.26.2020 Stigma and Acceptance of Sierra Leone's Child Soldiers: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Adult Mental Health and Social Functioning: JAACAP June 2020 JAACAP June 2020: Contributing Editor Dr. Jerome H. Taylor interviews Dr. Theresa S. Betancourt on the associations of war and postconflict factors with mental health among Sierra Leone's former child soldiers as adults.
04.24.2020 Behavior Modification Is Associated With Reduced Psychotropic Medication Use in Children With Aggression in Inpatient Treatment: A Retrospective Cohort Study: JAACAP May 2020 JAACAP May 2020: Associate Editor Dr. Robert R. Althoff interviews AACAP President Dr. Gabrielle A. Carlson on changes in PRN psychotropic medication use to manage severe aggression on a children's psychiatric inpatient unit.
03.24.2020 Call for Improvements to Federal Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Workforce Projection Methods: JAACAP April 2020 JAACAP April 2020: Contributing Editor Dr. Kara Bagot interviews Mss. Ilango and McManus on the unmet need for mental and behavioral health services among children, adolescents, and young adults in the US.
02.20.2020 A Double-Blind Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial of Citalopram Adjunctive to Stimulant Medication in Youth With Chronic Severe Irritability.: JAACAP March 2020 JAACAP March 2020: Contributing Editor Dr. John Erik Leikauf interviews Dr. Kenneth Towbin on the effects of adding citalopram to methylphenidate in the treatment of chronic severe irritability in youth using a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled design.
01.23.2020 Association Between the Release of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why and Suicide Rates in the United States: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis: JAACAP February 2020 JAACAP February 2020: Contributing Editor Dr. Christopher Hammond interviews Dr. Jeffrey A. Bridge on the association between the release of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why and suicide rates in the United States.
12.30.2019 Meta-Analysis: 13-Year Follow-up of Psychotherapy Effects on Youth Depression: JAACAP January 2020 JAACAP January 2020: Contributing Editor Dr. Gerrit van Schalkwyk interviews Dr. Dikla Eckshtain on the need for treatment development and research to improve both immediate and longer-term benefits in depressed youths.
11.20.2019 Early Pubertal Timing and Testosterone Associated With Higher Levels of Adolescent Depression in Girls: JAACAP December 2019 JAACAP December 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Jerome H. Taylor interviews Dr. William E. Copeland on the relative contributions of pubertal timing, pubertal status, and sex hormones on the increases in female depression.
10.24.2019 Brain Development and Stochastic Processes During Prenatal and Early Life: You Can't Lose It if You've Never Had It; But It's Better to Have It and Lose It, Than Never to Have Had It at All: JAACAP No JAACAP Contributing Editor Dr. Gerrit van Schalkwyk interviews Dr. Tonya J.H. White on her In Context article, which discusses the role of stochastic, or chance, events that take place during neurodevelopment. 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Gerrit van Schalkwyk interviews Dr. ...
09.26.2019 Growing Up With an Undocumented Parent in America: Psychosocial Adversity in Domestically Residing Immigrant Children: JAACAP October 2019 JAACAP October 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Kara Bagot interviews Dr. Shawn S. Sidhu on his Clinical Perspectives article, which discusses how child and adolescent psychiatrists can effectively help children and families with an undocumented parent.
08.21.2019 A Multisite Randomized Controlled Two-Phase Trial of the Early Start Denver Model Compared to Treatment as Usual: JAACAP September 2019 JAACAP September 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. John Erik Leikauf interviews Dr. Sally J. Rogers on a randomized treatment study of the effects of 27 months of an intervention for early autism (ages 14-27 months), compared to 2 years of community ...
07.23.2019 Master Clinician Review: Parental Depression and Family Health and Wellness: What Clinicians Can Do and Reflections on Opportunities for the Future : JAACAP August 2019 JAACAP August 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Christopher Hammond interviews Dr. William R. Beardslee on the problem of depression in families and intervention approaches that address parental depression on its own and in the context of treating mental illness in children.
06.20.2019 LGBT Youth, Mental Health, and Spiritual Care: Psychiatric Collaboration With Health Care Chaplains: JAACAP July 2019 JAACAP July 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Marika Inga Wrzosek interviews Dr. Stewart Adelson on a how healthcare chaplains can collaborate with psychiatrists and other healthcare professionals to support mental and physical health among LGBT youth.
05.24.2019 Reducing Preschool Behavior Problems in an Urban Mental Health Clinic: A Pragmatic, Non-Inferiority Trial: JAACAP June 2019 JAACAP June 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Jerome H. Taylor interviews Dr. Deborah Gross on a randomized pragmatic trial comparing the effectiveness and cost of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy or the Chicago Parent Program to reduce child behavior problems.
04.25.2019 Mental Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: It's About Time: JAACAP May 2019 JAACAP May 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Gerrit van Schalkwyk interviews Dr. Jess P. Shatkin on the opportunity and responsibility to engage in mental health promotion and disease prevention.
03.27.2019 Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled, Pilot Study of Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: JAACAP April 2019 JAACAP April 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Kara S. Bagot interviews Dr. James J. McGough on trigeminal nerve stimulation, a potential new non-medication treatment for ADHD.
03.04.2019 Maternal Depression and Stress in the NICU: Associations with Mother-Child Interactions at Age 5 Years: JAACAP March 2019 JAACAP March 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. John Erik Leikauf interviews Dr. Emily D. Gerstein how maternal depression and stress in the NICU can have lasting impacts on multiple parenting behaviors.
02.07.2019 Meta-Analyses: Key Parenting Program Components for Disruptive Child Behavior : JAACAP February 2019 JAACAP February 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Christopher Hammond interviews Dr. Patty Leijten on identifying what parents need to be taught to reduce disruptive child behavior.
12.21.2018 Master Clinician Review: Saving Holden Caulfield: Suicide Prevention in Children and Adolescents: JAACAP January 2019 JAACAP January 2019: Contributing Editor Dr. Marika Inga Wrzosek interviews Dr. David A. Brent on his Master Clinician Review, which discusses reversing the decade-long increase in adolescent suicide.
12.04.2018 Networks of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms Across Development: JAACAP December 2018 JAACAP December 2018: Contributing Editor Dr. John Erik Leikauf interviews Dr. Eoin McElroy on strong interconnectivity of depression and anxiety symptoms from a very early age at the general population level.
11.02.2018 Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder After Age 5 in Children Evaluated Longitudinally Since Infancy: JAACAP November 2018 JAACAP November 2018: Contributing Editor Dr. Jerome H. Taylor interviews Dr. Lonnie Zwaigenbaum on diagnosing autism after age 5.
10.01.2018 A Risk Calculator to Predict the Individual Risk of Conversion From Subthreshold Bipolar Symptoms to Bipolar Disorder I or II in Youth. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiat JAACAP October 2018: Contributing Editor Dr. Gerrit van Schalkwyk interviews Dr. Boris Birmaher on the increased risk of conversion to bipolar disorder in youth with subthreshold mania.
09.07.2018 Child Abuse and Neglect: JAACAP September 2018 JAACAP September 2018: Contributing Editor Dr. Christopher Hammond interviews Dr. Charles H. Zeanah on various forms of neglect of children, assessing maltreated children, and the treatment of psychopathology associated with maltreatment.
07.31.2018 Parent Training for Preschool ADHD in Routine, Specialist Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial: JAACAP August 2018 JAACAP August 2018: Contributing Editor Dr. Kara S. Bagot interviews Dr. Anne-Mette Lange on a behavioral parent training program for preschool children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
06.28.2018 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children With Anxiety and Comorbid Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: JAACAP July 2018 JAACAP July 2018: Contributing Editor Dr. Marika Wrzosek interviews Dr. Jennifer L. Hudson and Dr. Karen L. Gould on suitability of manual-based group-based CBT for anxiety treatment in children with comorbid ADHD.
06.27.2018 Criterion Validity and Utility of the General Factor of Psychopathology in Childhood: Predictive Associations With Independently Measured Severe Adverse Mental Health Outcomes in Adolescence: JAACAP J JAACAP June 2018: Contributing Editor Dr. Jerome Taylor interviews Dr. Erik Pettersson on how a general factor of psychopathology may predict severe adverse mental health outcomes in adolescence.
04.30.2018 The Epigenetic Clock at Birth: Associations With Maternal Antenatal Depression and Child Psychiatric Problems: JAACAP May 2018 JAACAP May 2018: Contributing Editor Dr. John Erik Leikauf interviews Dr. Marius Lahti-Pulkkinen about a novel biomarker of aging at birth, namely epigenetic gestational age (GA) based on fetal cord blood methylation data.
03.27.2018 The Impact of Antidepressant Dose and Class on Treatment Response in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders: A Meta-Analysis : JAACAP April 2018 JAACAP April 2018: Contributing Editor Dr. Gerrit Van Schalkwyk interviews Dr. Jeffrey Strawn on the trajectory and magnitude of antidepressant response and the effect of antidepressant class and dose on symptomatic improvement in pediatric anxiety disorders.
02.27.2018 Novel Loci Associated With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Are Revealed by Leveraging Polygenic Overlap With Educational Attainment: JAACAP February 2018 JAACAP February 2018: Contributing Editor Dr. Marika Wrzosek interviews Dr. Olav Smeland on the genetic risk architecture of ADHD and its relation to educational attainment.
02.27.2018 Working Memory and Vigilance as Multivariate Endophenotypes Related to Common Genetic Risk for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder : JAACAP March 2018 JAACAP March 2018: Contributing Editor Dr. Christopher Hammond interviews Dr. Joel Nigg on associations between different cognitive functions, polygenic risk scores, and ADHD diagnoses. Working Memory and Vigilance as Multivariate Endophenotypes Related to Common Genetic Risk for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
01.03.2018 Presidential Address: Depression Awareness and Screening in Children and Adolescents: JAACAP January 2018 JAACAP January 2018: Contributing Editor Dr. Kara Bagot interviews AACAP President Dr. Karen Dineen Wagner on her presidential initiative regarding depression in children and adolescents.
11.27.2017 Handoff: Editor's Annual Report-Volume 56, 2017: JAACAP December 2017 JAACAP December 2017: Editor-in-Chief Dr. Andres Martin interviews Editor-Elect Dr. Douglas K. Novins on the editorial transition and new Journal features coming in 2018.
10.31.2017 Thinking Across Generations: Unique Contributions of Maternal Early Life andPrenatal Stress to Infant Physiology: JAACAP November 2017 JAACAP November 2017: Contributing Editor Dr. Christian Kieling interviews Dr. Stacy Drury on the impact of maternal adverse childhood experiences on infants' later mental and physical health risk.
09.26.2017 Forward to the Future: Clinical Updates and Clinical Practice Guidelines: JAACAP October 2017 JAACAP October 2017: Contributing Editor Dr. Cynthia Rogers interviews Dr. Heather Walter on AACAP's new ClinicalUpdate and Clinical Practice Guideline series.
08.23.2017 'Dude-Me, Too!': The Importance of Wellness Mentorship From Day One.: JAACAP September 2017 JAACAP September 2017: Contributing Editor Dr. David Hong interviews Dr. Julie Chilton on physicians' mental health strugglesand promoting self-care.
07.21.2017 Concomitant Use of Atypical Antipsychotics With Other Psychotropic Medication Classes and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: JAACAP August 2017 JAACAP August 2017: Contributing Editor Dr. Danella M. Hafeman interviews Dr. Mehmet Burcu on polypharmacy and type 2 diabetes in youth treated with antipsychotics.
06.23.2017 Striatal Activation Predicts Differential Therapeutic Responses to Methylphenidateand Atomoxetine: JAACAP July 2017 JAACAP July 2017: Contributing Editor Dr. Craigan Usher interviews Dr. Jeffrey Newcorn on responses to different medications for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and future directions for ADHD research.

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