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View article: Assessing Behavioral Threat Avoidance in Pediatric Anxiety With Naturalistic Games
Assessing Behavioral Threat Avoidance in Pediatric Anxiety With Naturalistic Games Open
Behavioral avoidance exacerbates anxiety symptoms. Capturing and identifying maladaptive avoidance patterns holds clinical utility. However, effective assessment tools which provide unique information on behavior beyond self‐report are nee…
View article: Sex and age as moderators in the expression of internalizing and externalizing behaviors: insights from the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
Sex and age as moderators in the expression of internalizing and externalizing behaviors: insights from the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) Open
View article: Tele-SPACE: group parent-based treatment for pediatric anxiety via telemedicine in a public health clinic
Tele-SPACE: group parent-based treatment for pediatric anxiety via telemedicine in a public health clinic Open
Introduction Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) is an evidence-based treatment for parents of children with anxiety disorders and/or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Given the many barriers to accessing such ev…
View article: Assessing Behavioral Threat Avoidance in Pediatric Anxiety with Naturalistic Games
Assessing Behavioral Threat Avoidance in Pediatric Anxiety with Naturalistic Games Open
Introduction: Behavioral avoidance exacerbates anxiety symptoms. Capturing and identifying maladaptive avoidance patterns holds clinical utility. However, effective assessment tools which provide unique information on behavior beyond self-…
View article: Using Cognitive Interviewing to Develop Rating Scales of Suicide Thoughts and Behaviors in Preadolescent Children
Using Cognitive Interviewing to Develop Rating Scales of Suicide Thoughts and Behaviors in Preadolescent Children Open
View article: Efficacy of a parent-based treatment for children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder: Protocol of a multiple baseline, single-case experimental design study
Efficacy of a parent-based treatment for children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder: Protocol of a multiple baseline, single-case experimental design study Open
Combining the innovative SPACE treatment with a SCED provides detailed insight into the relationship between OCD and FA over time. Studying this in clinical practice in complex cases that are normally understudied, helps to improve more pe…
View article: Chronotherapeutic intervention targeting emotion regulation brain circuitry, symptoms, and suicide risk in adolescents and young adults with bipolar disorder: a pilot randomised trial
Chronotherapeutic intervention targeting emotion regulation brain circuitry, symptoms, and suicide risk in adolescents and young adults with bipolar disorder: a pilot randomised trial Open
Background Mood episodes and high suicide risk of bipolar disorder (BD) are thought to derive from amygdala–ventral prefrontal cortex emotion regulation brain circuitry dysfunction and resulting emotion dysregulation, making these potentia…
View article: Brain functional connectivity and anatomical features as predictors of cognitive behavioral therapy outcome for anxiety in youths
Brain functional connectivity and anatomical features as predictors of cognitive behavioral therapy outcome for anxiety in youths Open
Background Because pediatric anxiety disorders precede the onset of many other problems, successful prediction of response to the first-line treatment, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), could have a major impact. This study evaluates whe…
View article: The association between salivary oxytocin, age, and puberty in children with and without OCD
The association between salivary oxytocin, age, and puberty in children with and without OCD Open
View article: Salivary oxytocin concentrations in children and adolescents with and without OCD
Salivary oxytocin concentrations in children and adolescents with and without OCD Open
Introduction: Oxytocin has been implicated as a biological mechanism within obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Few studies only involving adults have investigated this hypothesis and found inconsistent results. We investigated whether sa…
View article: Brain Functional Connectivity and Anatomical Features as Predictors of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Outcome for Anxiety in Youths
Brain Functional Connectivity and Anatomical Features as Predictors of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Outcome for Anxiety in Youths Open
Background Because pediatric anxiety disorders precede the onset of many other problems, successful prediction of response to the first-line treatment, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), could have major impact. However, existing clinical…
View article: Responding to threat: Associations between neural reactivity to and behavioral avoidance of threat in pediatric anxiety
Responding to threat: Associations between neural reactivity to and behavioral avoidance of threat in pediatric anxiety Open
View article: Family accommodation: a diagnostic feature of obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Family accommodation: a diagnostic feature of obsessive-compulsive disorder? Open
View article: Efficacy of a Parent-Based Treatment for Children and Adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Protocol of a Multiple Baseline, Single-Case Experimental Design Study
Efficacy of a Parent-Based Treatment for Children and Adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Protocol of a Multiple Baseline, Single-Case Experimental Design Study Open
View article: Social rhythm therapy and suicide propensity in adolescents and young adults with mood disorders
Social rhythm therapy and suicide propensity in adolescents and young adults with mood disorders Open
View article: Family Accommodation and Separation Anxiety: The Moderating Role of Child Attachment
Family Accommodation and Separation Anxiety: The Moderating Role of Child Attachment Open
Family accommodation, or changes in parental behavior aimed at avoiding or alleviating child anxiety-related distress, contributes to the severity of anxiety symptoms, and is most strongly associated with separation anxiety symptoms. This …
View article: Transactional associations of child irritability and anxiety with parent psychological control in Taiwanese school‐aged children
Transactional associations of child irritability and anxiety with parent psychological control in Taiwanese school‐aged children Open
Background 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 Wes…
View article: Oxytocin as a Biomarker of Differential Effects to SPACE vs. CBT Treatment of Child Anxiety Disorders
Oxytocin as a Biomarker of Differential Effects to SPACE vs. CBT Treatment of Child Anxiety Disorders Open
The findings highlight the importance of the integration between moderators and targets of treatments for progress toward improving treatment efficacy through precision medicine.
View article: Parent Accommodation Contemporaneously Mediates the Association Between Youth Irritability and Youth Anxiety Treatment Outcome
Parent Accommodation Contemporaneously Mediates the Association Between Youth Irritability and Youth Anxiety Treatment Outcome Open
View article: The Role of Family-Level Factors in Childhood Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Role of Family-Level Factors in Childhood Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused pervasive disruptions to family life. In light of the established role of parent-child dynamics in the maintenance of pediatric anxiety, we conducted a multilevel, multimodal study to examine how family-lev…
View article: Maternal FGF2 levels associated with child anxiety and depression symptoms through child FGF2 levels
Maternal FGF2 levels associated with child anxiety and depression symptoms through child FGF2 levels Open
View article: Do School-Based Accommodations Mitigate Anxiety-Related School Impairment for Socially Anxious Youth?
Do School-Based Accommodations Mitigate Anxiety-Related School Impairment for Socially Anxious Youth? Open
In the United States, legislation ensures that schools provide accommodations to students with disabilities and conditions that impair their functioning. Students with social anxiety, who face many challenges in the school context, often r…
View article: Transactional associations of child irritability and anxiety with parent psychological control and parent depressed mood
Transactional associations of child irritability and anxiety with parent psychological control and parent depressed mood Open
BackgroundChild irritability and anxiety are associated with parent psychological control and parent depressed mood; yet their transactional associations over time are not well-characterized at the between- and within-person levels, and re…
View article: Attention Training as a Low-Intensity Treatment for Concerning Anxiety in Clinic-Referred Youth
Attention Training as a Low-Intensity Treatment for Concerning Anxiety in Clinic-Referred Youth Open
View article: Family Accommodation Scale for Sensory Over-Responsivity: A Measure Development Study
Family Accommodation Scale for Sensory Over-Responsivity: A Measure Development Study Open
Family accommodation refers to the attempt of family members (most often parents) to prevent their child’s distress related to psychopathology. Family accommodation can limit meaningful participation in personal and social routines and act…
View article: Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety: Relations with avoidance and self-efficacy
Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety: Relations with avoidance and self-efficacy Open
View article: Whole‐exome DNA sequencing in childhood anxiety disorders identifies rare de novo damaging coding variants
Whole‐exome DNA sequencing in childhood anxiety disorders identifies rare de novo damaging coding variants Open
These findings provide a path for identifying risk genes and promising biologic pathways in childhood anxiety disorders by de novo genetic variant detection. Our results suggest the discovery potential of applying this approach in larger a…
View article: Clinical Update: The Role of Family Accommodation in Youth Anxiety Treatment Outcomes
Clinical Update: The Role of Family Accommodation in Youth Anxiety Treatment Outcomes Open
Over the past several years, family accommodation (FA) has gained increasing recognition for its role in child and adolescent anxiety disorders. Recent clinical trials highlight the importance of assessing and addressing FA within t…
View article: Telehealth Social Rhythm Therapy to Reduce Mood Symptoms and Suicide Risk Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Bipolar Disorder
Telehealth Social Rhythm Therapy to Reduce Mood Symptoms and Suicide Risk Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Bipolar Disorder Open
These preliminary results indicate that SRT delivered largely by telemedicine is feasible and acceptable. The intervention appeared to reduce mood symptoms, and suicide propensity independent of mood symptoms, among adolescents and young a…
View article: Rates of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Gestational Age at Birth in a Danish Population
Rates of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Gestational Age at Birth in a Danish Population Open
Higher incidences of all major neuropsychiatric disorders were observed across the spectrum of preterm births. Early term and late or postterm births might not share a homogeneous low risk with individuals born at term. These findings sugg…