Brian Allen, Rachel Wamser, Lauren Ferrer-Pistone, Claudia L Campbell
{"title":"Problematic Sexual Behavior Among Children: A Meta-Analysis of Demographic and Clinical Correlates.","authors":"Brian Allen, Rachel Wamser, Lauren Ferrer-Pistone, Claudia L Campbell","doi":"10.1007/s10802-025-01300-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10802-025-01300-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Problematic sexual behavior (PSB) are behaviors that involve sexual body parts and that are developmentally inappropriate or potentially harmful among children ages 12 and younger. PSB has been associated with different types of maltreatment as well as clinical difficulties, albeit inconsistently. The aim of this meta-analysis was to summarize the current research on correlates of PSB, specifically child demographic factors (i.e., gender, age), maltreatment history (i.e., childhood sexual abuse [CSA], childhood physical abuse [CPA]), and comorbid clinical symptoms (i.e., externalizing and internalizing problems). A total of 47 samples (n = 15,562 children) were included. Males and younger children were slightly more likely to exhibit PSB (g = .12 and -.21, respectively). CSA was associated with PSB (g = .71); however, the strength of this relationship differed by caregiver gender and publication year. CPA was also related to PSB (g = .32), but was more strongly associated when PSB was limited to the interpersonally intrusive subtype of PSB (g = .46). Externalizing (g = .95) and internalizing (g = .63) symptoms were also linked with PSB, with externalizing difficulties evincing the strongest association of all of the correlates. These results are discussed in the context of advancing research on PSB, specifically addressing several limitations in the current literature. These include inconsistent assessment of PSB and CSA, as well as the pressing need to develop a more robust measure of PSB. Finally, a more comprehensive assessment of the correlates of PSB is needed to address significant common method variance.</p>","PeriodicalId":36218,"journal":{"name":"Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"831-847"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143469406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bidirectional Relationship Between Language Ability and Internalising/Externalising Behaviour from Early to Late Childhood: Findings from a Chilean Cohort.","authors":"Ricardo Mellado","doi":"10.1007/s10802-025-01302-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10802-025-01302-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Language skills, along with emotional (internalising) and behavioural (externalising) problems, are known to independently influence long-term outcomes. However, the bidirectional relationship between these factors over time, particularly during childhood and early adolescence, remains underexplored. This study used a sample of 3,772 children from the Chilean Longitudinal Survey of Early Childhood to assess bidirectional effects between these domains at ages 2-4, 4-6, and 10-12. Externalising and internalising problems were assessed using the Child Behaviour Checklist, and language ability was measured with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. Structural Equation Modelling, specifically the Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Model, revealed: (a) bidirectional effects between externalising behaviour and language skills, with stronger effects of externalising behaviour on language; (b) externalising symptoms predicted increased internalising symptoms across all periods; (c) internalising symptoms at ages 4-6 predicted lower levels of externalising behaviour at ages 10-12, suggesting a protective role; and (d) gender-specific patterns, with males showing bidirectional effects between externalising symptoms and receptive language, while females showed stronger unidirectional effects of early externalising behaviour on later internalising behaviour. These findings highlight the importance of early monitoring of externalising symptoms and language challenges to mitigate future issues.</p>","PeriodicalId":36218,"journal":{"name":"Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"921-935"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12137427/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143597948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anne-Marie R Iselin, Jamie DeCoster, Laura DiGiunta, Jennifer E Lansford, Kenneth A Dodge, Nancy Eisenberg, Concetta Pastorelli, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Dario Bacchini
{"title":"Rumination Mediates the Relation of Hostile Attribution to Psychological Maladjustment Among Adolescents from Three Countries.","authors":"Anne-Marie R Iselin, Jamie DeCoster, Laura DiGiunta, Jennifer E Lansford, Kenneth A Dodge, Nancy Eisenberg, Concetta Pastorelli, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Dario Bacchini","doi":"10.1007/s10802-025-01288-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10802-025-01288-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Addressing global concerns about youth mental health requires understanding longitudinal pathways to psychological maladjustment among diverse youth. Hostile attribution bias (HAB) and hostile rumination (HR) are cognitive vulnerabilities associated with multiple forms of psychological maladjustment among diverse youth. This study longitudinally examined whether HR mediates the relation of HAB to aggression, anxiety, and depression symptoms in a sample of adolescents from three countries. Participants included 532 mothers, 384 fathers, and 566 youth (50% female) from Colombia, Italy (Naples and Rome), and the U.S. (White, Black, and Latinx). Structural equation modeling indicated that youth-reported HR at Time 2 (mean age = 12.58 years) significantly mediated the relation of youth-reported HAB at Time 1 (mean age = 10.89 years) to parent-reported aggression and anxiety symptoms at Time 3 (mean age = 13.71 years; aggression: b = 0.05, 95% bootstrap CI = [0.006, 0.14]; anxiety: b = 0.06, 95% bootstrap CI = [0.01, 0.16]); but not to parent-reported depression symptoms at Time 3 (b = 0.02, 95% bootstrap CI = [-0.04, 0.08]). A reverse model indicated HAB at Time 3 significantly mediated the relation of HR at Time 2 to anxiety symptoms at Time 4 (mean age = 14.99 years; b = -0.01, 95% bootstrap CI = [-0.04, -0.001]), but not to aggression or depression symptoms at Time 4. Multi-group analyses indicated focal mediational paths did not vary significantly across national, regional, and racial subgroups or gender. Findings support the Integrative Cognitive Model of Aggression, providing evidence that HAB and HR may be vulnerability factors for aggression and anxiety among diverse youth.</p>","PeriodicalId":36218,"journal":{"name":"Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"861-876"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12137534/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143068390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transactional Relations between Study Habits and Behavioral Problem during Middle Childhood: an Actor-Partner analysis in Chinese Friendship Dyads.","authors":"Xinyu Zhao, Xiaorui He, Xiaopei Xing, Jianshe Zhao","doi":"10.1007/s10802-025-01305-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10802-025-01305-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This longitudinal study examined the transactional relations between study habits and behavioral problems within and between children and the potential gender differences in the above relations during middle childhood in China. The participants were 260 children, drawn from 157 stable friendship dyads, who were initially in third and fourth grades (T1 M<sub>age</sub> = 9.84 years). Parents completed internalizing and externalizing problem measures, children completed internalizing/externalizing problem and peer nomination measures and teacher reported study habits at two time points one year apart. The actor-partner analysis revealed that children's internalizing problems negatively predicted their friends' study habits one year later, and their externalizing problems negatively predicted their own and their friends' study habits one year later. However, only girls' study habits negatively and marginally predicted their friends' externalizing problems. The results suggest that instructions integrating study habits and behavioral problems among peers may be an important avenue for enhancing children's academic and social-emotion development in China, but these interventions should be distinct for boys and girls.</p>","PeriodicalId":36218,"journal":{"name":"Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"951-967"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Perniciousness and Promise of School-Based Mental Health Service Delivery for Youth.","authors":"Christopher A Kearney","doi":"10.1007/s10802-024-01253-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10802-024-01253-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rates of child and adolescent mental disorder have risen sharply while access to community-based mental health care options continues to be elusive for many families. Substantial and persistent barriers to community-based mental health care have prompted multiple stakeholders to pursue an approach that emphasizes health promotion and intervention practices within the context of ecologically valid and more accessible environments. The most prominent of these environments has been schools that can serve as local and centralized access points to various services, including mental health care. The rapid expansion of school-based mental health service delivery systems, however, carries both risk of perniciousness as well as significant promise with respect to effective and equitable care. This article summarizes key concerns surrounding school-based mental health service delivery systems, including non-beneficence and harm, support disparities, unsustainable implementation, oppressive school climate, and linkage to punitive and discriminatory practices. Broad-based recommendations to help realize the promise of effective and equitable care for students with mental health and behavioral challenges are also presented vis-à-vis each of these concerns. At the same time, natural tensions between various mandates assigned to schools as well as between schools and their surrounding communities will need to be addressed to reach the full potential of school-based mental health service delivery systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":36218,"journal":{"name":"Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"609-624"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142355723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alison Salloum, Peter Boedeker, Cleo Morris, Eric A Storch
{"title":"Suicidal Ideation, Clinical Worsening and Outcomes among Child Participants in Trauma-Focused Treatment.","authors":"Alison Salloum, Peter Boedeker, Cleo Morris, Eric A Storch","doi":"10.1007/s10802-024-01242-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10802-024-01242-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on clinical trajectories of children with suicidal ideation (SI) and clinical worsening (CW) during cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for childhood trauma is limited. The current study utilized secondary data from a randomized clinical trial comparing Trauma-Focused CBT versus Stepped care CBT to examine (1) clinical profile and outcomes of children with SI, recurrent thoughts of death/dying, and past attempts; and (2) clinical worsening during treatment and difference in outcomes. Children (ages 4-12) and their parents (N = 183) participated and 132 completed treatment. Interviews assessing SI, thoughts of death/dying, past attempts, and number/type of trauma were conducted with children (ages 7-12) and parents. Outcome measures (baseline and post-treatment) completed by parents included child posttraumatic stress symptoms, impairment, and internalizing and externalizing problems and an independent evaluator rated overall severity. Children (ages 7-12), parents and therapists completed ratings during treatment that indicated CW. Results did not differ by treatment group; thus, the pooled sample was used. Children with SI at baseline had higher severity than children without. For completers, no children (n = 14) with SI at baseline had SI at post-treatment. Child (n = 3) and therapist (n = 5) ratings of CW were low. Eighteen children (13.64%) were rated as CW by parents. Most ratings occurred at the beginning of treatment. Children with therapist ratings of CW had higher internalizing problems. Findings suggest that children with SI and CW can improve from trauma-focused CBT. More research is needed on the clinical trajectory of children with SI and trauma, and on clinical tools to monitor CW. Clinical trial registration information: https://clinicaltrials.gov : NCT02537678.</p>","PeriodicalId":36218,"journal":{"name":"Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"687-700"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142355721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caitlin M Pinciotti, Claire E Cusack, Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, Ilana Seager van Dyk, M Paz Galupo
{"title":"Potential Harm in the Psychological Treatment of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth.","authors":"Caitlin M Pinciotti, Claire E Cusack, Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, Ilana Seager van Dyk, M Paz Galupo","doi":"10.1007/s10802-024-01268-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10802-024-01268-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals show disproportionately high rates of mental distress relative to their cisgender, heterosexual peers resulting from minority stress, or unique identity-related stressors. The majority of research on minority stress and mental health in SGM individuals has focused on adults, a notable gap given that SGM youth face unique developmental factors that intersect with identity development and availability of support resources. SGM youth therefore represent a critical population for the mental health workforce to serve competently. Mental health providers risk significant harm to their SGM youth clients if they do not understand the mechanisms underlying mental health disparities in this population. This article will review treatment practices that carry the potential for harm with SGM youth, including harms that are more overt and attempt to change SGM identities (i.e., so-called \"conversion therapies\"), and others that are more covert, such as neglecting to consider SGM identity in conceptualization and treatment (e.g., eating disorders), pathologizing SGM identity and behaviors (e.g., personality disorders, social anxiety), and reinforcing stigma related to SGM identities (e.g., obsessive-compulsive disorder). Accordingly, this article reviews each of these potential harms in detail and provides alternative recommendations for affirming and justice-based treatment for SGM youth.</p>","PeriodicalId":36218,"journal":{"name":"Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"715-727"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142792573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kaitlin M Sheerin, Cynthia E Brown, Suh Jung Park, Jenna Schopen
{"title":"Examining Practices for Youth Illegal Sexual Behaviors which May Warrant De-Implementation: Overview and Recommendations.","authors":"Kaitlin M Sheerin, Cynthia E Brown, Suh Jung Park, Jenna Schopen","doi":"10.1007/s10802-025-01301-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10802-025-01301-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Youth problem sexual behaviors (PSBs), and particularly youth illegal sexual behaviors, have deleterious consequences for youth who engage in them, including removal from the home, perpetration of non-sexual offenses, and chronic involvement with the child welfare and juvenile legal systems (Lussier, Juvenile sex offending through a developmental life course criminology perspective: An agenda for policy and research). Further, individuals who are victims of youth PSBs also experience poor mental and physical health outcomes, resulting in a significant public health expenditure (Hailes et al., Long-term outcomes of childhood sexual abuse: An umbrella review). Researchers and policymakers alike have therefore placed considerable focus on efforts to develop effective evidence-based treatments for youth PSBs. To date, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for interventions targeting PSBs have yielded positive outcomes for both school-age children and adolescents. Despite this, untested practices or practices with limited empirical support (i.e., those unsupported by data from RCTs) predominate service delivery with this vulnerable clinical population. In the present article, we discuss treatment de-implementation models in the context of PSB treatment. Then, we cover two treatment modalities focused on youth illegal sexual behavior specifically and for each describe: (a) the clinical interventions, (b) the available research, and (c) whether they should be considered de-implementation. We conclude with future research directions and practical recommendations for future de-implementation evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":36218,"journal":{"name":"Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"761-770"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143597912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hyun Seon Park, Kimberly D Becker, Bruce F Chorpita
{"title":"Understanding How and When Therapists Misstep: Navigating Engagement Challenges in Youth Mental Health Services.","authors":"Hyun Seon Park, Kimberly D Becker, Bruce F Chorpita","doi":"10.1007/s10802-025-01297-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10802-025-01297-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Therapist \"missteps\" (i.e., inadvertent, less optimal, or noncollaborative therapist behaviors) have the potential to negatively impact youth and family engagement in community mental health services. The present study explores potential misstep occurrences and whether they varied across various distal and proximal factors related to treatment planning, preparation, and clinical context. Data were drawn from a multi-site cluster-randomized controlled trial focused on promoting therapist use of evidence-informed procedures to engage youth and families in urban and rural community mental health services. Audio recordings from 391 treatment sessions delivered by 92 therapists were transcribed and coded for missteps occurrences. Missteps were sporadic, but occurred in most sessions, frequently manifesting as advice giving, but taking a variety of other forms. Their occurrence appeared to be lower when supervision involved preparing a plan for engaging the client, when there was a single participant in the session, and when treatment sessions occurred soon after supervision. Engaging in preparatory activities in supervision and receiving timely supervision prior to treatment delivery may be more protective against therapist missteps than simply selecting a practice to deliver. Additionally, unique challenges of family sessions may increase the likelihood of missteps occurring, highlighting the importance of specialized training for conducting family sessions.</p>","PeriodicalId":36218,"journal":{"name":"Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"669-685"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12085316/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143606671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Primum non nocere: Toward a Greater Understanding of the Potential for Harm in Psychological Treatments for Youth.","authors":"Samuel D Spencer, Dean McKay","doi":"10.1007/s10802-025-01323-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10802-025-01323-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The field of clinical psychological science has made considerable progress over the years in developing, testing, and disseminating psychological interventions for youth mental health conditions. Despite these achievements, the question of whether certain treatments may actually be inert, or at worst, iatrogenic, has been relatively underexamined compared to affirmative questions of efficacy. Fortunately, interest in the topic of harm within psychological treatments is growing. However, much of this work has taken place from a general theoretical perspective and has primarily focused on adults, and adaptations to youth populations remain limited. Thus, this special issue fills an important gap in the literature in terms of furthering our understanding of the potential for harm in youth mental health treatment. The articles in this collection contain a balance of conceptual, methodological, and empirical research focused on better understanding the potential for harm in youth mental health treatment with regard to particular populations, settings, and psychological disorders. In this introductory article, we: (a) explicate a brief background review of previous conceptual and empirical knowledge development efforts concerning potential for harm in psychological treatments, (b) outline unique considerations for specifically addressing this topic in youth, and (c) provide an overview and synthesis of articles in the collection. This special issue raises awareness of the ways in which youth may inadvertently be adversely affected by psychological interventions. We hope this will lead to greater refinement of beneficial evidence-based interventions and more nuanced attention given to potential areas of pitfall in clinical practice with youth.</p>","PeriodicalId":36218,"journal":{"name":"Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"597-607"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144022544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}