Stephen P Becker, Aaron J Vaughn, Allison K Zoromski, G Leonard Burns, Amori Yee Mikami, Joseph W Fredrick, Jeffery N Epstein, James L Peugh, Leanne Tamm
{"title":"A Multi-Method Examination of Peer Functioning in Children with and without Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome.","authors":"Stephen P Becker, Aaron J Vaughn, Allison K Zoromski, G Leonard Burns, Amori Yee Mikami, Joseph W Fredrick, Jeffery N Epstein, James L Peugh, Leanne Tamm","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2024.2301771","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15374416.2024.2301771","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) includes excessive daydreaming, mental confusion, and hypoactive behaviors that are distinct from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder inattentive (ADHD-IN) symptoms. A growing number of studies indicate that CDS symptoms may be associated with ratings of social withdrawal. However, it is important to examine this association in children specifically recruited for the presence or absence of CDS, and to incorporate multiple methods including direct observations of peer interactions. The current study builds on previous research by recruiting children with and without clinically elevated CDS symptoms and using a multi-method, multi-informant design including recess observations and parent, teacher, and child rating scales.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants were 207 children in grades 2-5 (63.3% male), including 103 with CDS and 104 without CDS, closely matched on grade and sex.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Controlling for family income, medication status, internalizing symptoms, and ADHD-IN severity, children with CDS were observed during recess to spend more time alone or engaging in parallel play, as well as less time involved in direct social interactions, than children without CDS. Children with CDS were also rated by teachers as being more asocial, shy, and socially disinterested than children without CDS. Although children with and without CDS did not differ on parent- or self-report ratings of shyness or social disinterest, children with CDS rated themselves as lonelier than children without CDS.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings indicate that children with CDS have a distinct profile of peer functioning and point to the potential importance of targeting withdrawal in interventions for youth with elevated CDS symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"389-404"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11231062/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139404773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joshua A Langfus, Yen-Ling Chen, Jessica A Janos, Jennifer K Youngstrom, Robert L Findling, Eric A Youngstrom
{"title":"Psychometric Properties and Clinical Utility of CBCL and P-GBI Sleep Items in Children and Adolescents.","authors":"Joshua A Langfus, Yen-Ling Chen, Jessica A Janos, Jennifer K Youngstrom, Robert L Findling, Eric A Youngstrom","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2023.2272965","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15374416.2023.2272965","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Sleep is crucial to overall health, playing a complex role in a wide range of mental health concerns in children and adults. Nevertheless, clinicians may not routinely assess sleep problems due to lack of awareness or limitations such as cost or time. Scoring sleep-related items embedded on broader scales may help clinicians get more out of tools they are already using. The current study explores evidence of reliability, validity, and clinical utility of sleep-related items embedded on two caregiver-report tools: the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Parent General Behavior Inventory (P-GBI).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Youth aged 5-18 years and their parents were recruited from both an academic medical center (<i>N</i> = 759) and an urban community health center (<i>N</i> = 618). Caregivers completed the CBCL and P-GBI as part of a more comprehensive outpatient evaluation. Exploratory factor analyses, multi-group confirmatory factor analyses, and graded response models evaluated dimensionality, reliability, and invariance across samples. Correlations and receiver operating characteristic curve analyses probed associations with diagnostic and demographic variables.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Two subscales emerged for each itemset. Across both samples, P-GBI sleep subscales were more reliable and consistent than CBCL sleep subscales, showed greater coverage of sleepiness and insomnia constructs, were better at discriminating individuals within a wider range of sleep complaints, and showed significant correlation with mood disorder diagnoses.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The P-GBI sleep items provide a brief, reliable measure for assessing distinct dimensions of sleep complaints and detecting mood symptoms or diagnoses related to the youth's sleep functioning, making them a useful addition to clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"328-345"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11096265/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136399775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G Leonard Burns, Juan José Montaño, Stephen P Becker, Mateu Servera
{"title":"Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome Symptoms from Early Childhood to Adolescence in a Nationally Representative Spanish Sample.","authors":"G Leonard Burns, Juan José Montaño, Stephen P Becker, Mateu Servera","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2023.2272944","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15374416.2023.2272944","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The identification of a common set of symptoms for assessing cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS, formerly sluggish cognitive tempo) for early childhood (ages 5-8), middle childhood (ages 9-12), and adolescence (ages 13-16) is needed to advance research on the developmental psychopathology of CDS (i.e. a common symptom set with comparable internal and external validity for each age group).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Parents of a nationally representative sample of 5,525 Spanish children and adolescents (ages 5 to 16, 56.1% boys) completed measures of CDS, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder-inattention (ADHD-IN), and other measures.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>First, the 15 CDS symptoms showed convergent and discriminant validity relative to the ADHD-IN symptoms within each age group. Second, CDS showed stronger first-order and unique associations than ADHD-IN with anxiety, depression, somatization, daytime sleep-related impairment, and nighttime sleep disturbance, whereas ADHD-IN showed stronger first-order and unique associations than CDS with ADHD-hyperactivity/impulsivity, oppositional defiant disorder, and academic impairment. Third, CDS showed stronger first-order and unique associations than ADHD-IN with a history of having an anxiety, depression, or bipolar disorder diagnosis, whereas ADHD-IN showed stronger first-order and unique associations with having an ADHD diagnosis.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The identification of a common set of CDS symptoms spanning early childhood to adolescence allows for the advancement of research on CDS, with a particular need now for longitudinal studies and examination of CDS with other functional outcomes and across other cultural contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"374-388"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71487606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristina Conroy, Anya E Urcuyo, Elena Schiavone, Averill Obee, Stacy L Frazier, Elizabeth Cramer, Jonathan S Comer
{"title":"Understanding Signs and Sources of Anxiety in Urban Elementary Schools Serving Predominately Ethnically/Racially Minoritized Children.","authors":"Kristina Conroy, Anya E Urcuyo, Elena Schiavone, Averill Obee, Stacy L Frazier, Elizabeth Cramer, Jonathan S Comer","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2024.2361731","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15374416.2024.2361731","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This mixed-methods study examined teachers' perceptions of student anxiety in urban elementary schools serving predominantly low-income and ethnically/racially minoritized youth.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Most participating teachers were female (87.7%) and from minoritized backgrounds themselves (89.2%), teaching in schools serving predominantly Black/African American (40%) or Hispanic (60%) students, and in which > 70% of students are eligible for free meals. Teachers were asked in surveys (<i>N</i> = 82) and interviews (<i>n</i> = 12) about the nature of student anxiety, and cultural/contextual considerations that influence anxiety.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, teachers reported prevalence and signs of student anxiety that were consistent with the literature, but they reported higher levels of impairment than in previous community samples. Regressions revealed that greater levels of student exposure to community violence and higher proportions of Black students were associated with higher teacher-perceived prevalence and concern about student anxiety, respectively. Moreover, greater emotional exhaustion in teachers was associated with higher reports of anxiety-related impairment in students. Thematic coding of interviews emphasized how teachers perceived 1) most student anxieties to be proportional responses to realistic threats and stress in students' lives (e.g. resource insecurity), 2) systems-level problems (e.g. pressure to perform on standardized tests) contribute to student anxiety, and 3) school-based anxiety sources often interact with traumas and stressors students experience outside of school (e.g. immigration experiences).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Relative to the predominant literature that has focused on biological, cognitive, and other intraindividual factors as sources of anxiety, the present work underscores the importance of considering how broader economic and systems-level influences exacerbate anxiety in marginalized youth.</p>","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"358-373"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141477749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Grace S Woodard, Elizabeth Lane, Jill Ehrenreich-May, Golda S Ginsburg, Amanda Jensen-Doss
{"title":"Adolescent Client and Clinician Predictors of Measurement-Based Care Fidelity in Community Mental Health Settings.","authors":"Grace S Woodard, Elizabeth Lane, Jill Ehrenreich-May, Golda S Ginsburg, Amanda Jensen-Doss","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2024.2426123","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15374416.2024.2426123","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Regularly administering outcome measures, measurement-based care (MBC), informs clinical decision-making and improves youth mental health. Understanding predictors of high-fidelity MBC delivery helps ensure all youth can benefit from this evidence-based practice. Research on client and clinician predictors of MBC fidelity has mixed findings.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants included 53 clinicians and 115 adolescents from a randomized controlled effectiveness trial with MBC only and MBC + Unified Protocol for the Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Adolescents (UPA) conditions. Clients and clinicians reported demographic information. Clinicians completed broad- and narrow-band attitude measures. MBC fidelity was operationalized using the implementation index, combining rates of administering and viewing questionnaires, using objective MBC data.</p><p><strong>Results and discussion: </strong>The average MBC fidelity was 56.75% (<i>SD</i> = 30.36) and was significantly higher in the MBC only condition (<i>M</i> = 67.46%, <i>SD</i> = 27.63%) than in MBC + UPA condition (<i>M</i> = 46.58%, <i>SD</i> = 29.52%; <i>p</i> = .012). Clients identifying as White received significantly higher MBC fidelity than youth not identifying as White. Youth ethnicity, family income, age, severity, and number of sessions did not significantly predict MBC fidelity. Clinicians with less experience at their agency, less confidence, and who found manualized treatments less appealing, had significantly <i>higher</i> MBC fidelity than other clinicians. These results can inform future efforts to increase fidelity and <i>equity</i> in MBC delivery.</p>","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"346-357"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12040587/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas M Achenbach, Masha Y Ivanova, Lori V Turner, Hannah Ritz, Fredrik Almqvist, Niels Bilenberg, Hector Bird, Myriam Chahed, Manfred Döpfner, Nese Erol, Helga Hannesdottir, Yasuko Kanbayashi, Michael C Lambert, Patrick W L Leung, Jianghong Liu, Asghar Minaei, Torunn Stene Novik, Kyung-Ja Oh, Djaouida Petot, Jean-Michel Petot, Rolando Pomalima, Adrian Raine, Michael Sawyer, Zeynep Simsek, Hans-Christoph Steinhausen, Jan van der Ende, Tomasz Wolanczyk, Rita Zukauskiene, Frank C Verhulst
{"title":"<i>P</i>-Factor(s) for Youth Psychopathology Across Informants and Models in 24 Societies.","authors":"Thomas M Achenbach, Masha Y Ivanova, Lori V Turner, Hannah Ritz, Fredrik Almqvist, Niels Bilenberg, Hector Bird, Myriam Chahed, Manfred Döpfner, Nese Erol, Helga Hannesdottir, Yasuko Kanbayashi, Michael C Lambert, Patrick W L Leung, Jianghong Liu, Asghar Minaei, Torunn Stene Novik, Kyung-Ja Oh, Djaouida Petot, Jean-Michel Petot, Rolando Pomalima, Adrian Raine, Michael Sawyer, Zeynep Simsek, Hans-Christoph Steinhausen, Jan van der Ende, Tomasz Wolanczyk, Rita Zukauskiene, Frank C Verhulst","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2024.2344159","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15374416.2024.2344159","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Although the significance of the general factor of psychopathology (<i>p)</i> is being increasingly recognized, it remains unclear how to best operationalize and measure <i>p</i>. To test variations in the operationalizations of <i>p</i> and make practical recommendations for its assessment, we compared <i>p</i>-factor scores derived from four models.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We compared <i>p</i> scores derived from principal axis (Model 1), hierarchical factor (Model 2), and bifactor (Model 3) analyses, plus a Total Problem score (sum of unit-weighted ratings of all problem items; Model 4) for parent- and self-rated youth psychopathology from 24 societies. Separately for each sample, we fitted the models to parent-ratings on the Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 6-18 (CBCL/6-18) and self-ratings on the Youth Self-Report (YSR) for 25,643 11-18-year-olds. Separately for each sample, we computed correlations between <i>p-</i>scores obtained for each pair of models, cross-informant correlations between <i>p</i>-scores for each model, and <i>Q</i>-correlations between mean item x <i>p</i>-score correlations for each pair of models.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results were similar for all models, as indicated by correlations of .973-.994 between <i>p</i>-scores for Models 1-4, plus similar cross-informant correlations between CBCL/6-18 and YSR Model 1-4 <i>p</i>-scores. Item x <i>p</i> correlations had similar rank orders between Models 1-4, as indicated by <i>Q</i> correlations of .957-.993.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The similar results obtained for Models 1-4 argue for using the simplest model - the unit-weighted Total Problem score - to measure <i>p</i> for clinical and research assessment of youth psychopathology. Practical methods for measuring <i>p</i> may advance the field toward transdiagnostic patterns of problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"318-327"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141162490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leaders in the History of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Past Presidents Series: Jan Culbertson (1990).","authors":"Matthew Hagler","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2025.2491066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2025.2491066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":"54 3","pages":"292-295"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144025664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2022.2059297","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15374416.2022.2059297","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"288"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139906706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marieke W H van den Heuvel, Denise H M Bodden, Filip Smit, Yvonne A J Stikkelbroek, Rutger C M E Engels
{"title":"Evaluating Effect Moderators in Cognitive Versus Behavioral Based CBT-Modules and Sequences Towards Preventing Adolescent Depression.","authors":"Marieke W H van den Heuvel, Denise H M Bodden, Filip Smit, Yvonne A J Stikkelbroek, Rutger C M E Engels","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2023.2209181","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15374416.2023.2209181","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The aim of this study was to investigate age group, gender, and baseline depressive symptom severity as possible effect moderators in (1) cognitive versus behavioral based CBT-modules and (2) sequences of modules that started either with cognitive or behavioral modules in indicated depression prevention in adolescents.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We conducted a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial under four parallel conditions. Each condition consisted of four CBT-modules of three sessions (cognitive restructuring, problem solving, behavioral activation, relaxation), but the sequencing of modules differed. The CBT-modules and sequences were clustered into more cognitive versus more behavioral based approaches. The sample involved 282 Dutch adolescents with elevated depressive symptoms (Mage = 13.8; 55.7% girls, 92.9% Dutch). Assessments were conducted at baseline, after three sessions, at post-intervention and 6-month follow-up with self-reported depressive symptoms as the primary outcome.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found no evidence for substantial moderation effects. Age group, gender, and depressive symptom severity level at baseline did not moderate the effects of cognitive versus behavioral modules after three sessions. No evidence was also found that these characteristics moderated the effectiveness of sequences of modules that started either with cognitive or behavioral modules at post-intervention and 6-month follow-up.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Cognitive and behavioral based modules and sequences in the prevention of depression in adolescents might apply to a relatively wide range of adolescents in terms of age group, gender, and severity levels of depressive symptoms.<b>Abbreviation:</b> CDI-2:F: Children's Depression Inventory-2 Full-length version; CDI-2:S: Children's Depression Inventory-2 Short version; STARr: Solve, Think, Act, Relax, and repeat.</p>","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"229-239"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11956778/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9509656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2020.1733360","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15374416.2020.1733360","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"286"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37775804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}