{"title":"Leaders in the History of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Past Presidents Series: Zanwil Sperber (1967-1968).","authors":"Qiyue Cai","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2025.2466149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2025.2466149","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":"54 2","pages":"181-183"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143701812","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}
Dominique A Phillips, Golda S Ginsburg, Jill Ehrenreich-May, Amanda Jensen-Doss
{"title":"Treatment Engagement in Adolescents: The Associations of Sociodemographic Characteristics, Caregiver Perceived Barriers, and Clinical Impairment.","authors":"Dominique A Phillips, Golda S Ginsburg, Jill Ehrenreich-May, Amanda Jensen-Doss","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2023.2222387","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15374416.2023.2222387","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To examine the associations between sociodemographic characteristics, perceived barriers to treatment, clinical impairment, and youth treatment engagement.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants included 196 families (youth: ages 12 to 18; 64.3% cis-gender female; 23.5% Black, 60.7% White, and 12.2% Mixed/Other race; 41.3% Hispanic or Latinx ethnicity) recruited as part of a comparative effectiveness trial for adolescent anxiety and depression. Self-report measures of sociodemographic characteristics and caregiver perceived barriers were completed at intake. Youth clinical impairment was assessed at baseline via clinical interview. Measures of engagement were collected throughout treatment, including initiation status, session attendance, and termination status. Relationships were examined using analyses of variances and hierarchal linear and logistic modeling.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Perceived barriers did not differ by sociodemographic characteristics. Greater perceived stressors and obstacles predicted fewer sessions attended and a lower likelihood of successful termination. Youth of caregivers with an advanced degree and those with caregivers who were employed part time attended more sessions and were more likely to initiate and terminate treatment successfully compared to youth with caregivers of a lower education level or student or unemployed status. At higher levels of youth clinical impairment, greater perceived treatment demands and issues predicted reduced likelihood of treatment initiation.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Perceived barriers, sociodemographic characteristics, and clinical impairment were all associated with levels of engagement in the treatment process. Baseline and continued assessment of perceived and experienced barriers to treatment may promote individualized strategies for families identified as at-risk for reduced engagement.</p>","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"272-285"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10739653/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9680363","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}
Aaron Hogue, Alexandra MacLean, Molly Bobek, Sean Dunnsue, Nicole Porter, Amanda Jensen-Doss, Craig E Henderson
{"title":"Training Community Therapists in Core Elements of CBT and Family Therapy for Adolescent Externalizing Problems.","authors":"Aaron Hogue, Alexandra MacLean, Molly Bobek, Sean Dunnsue, Nicole Porter, Amanda Jensen-Doss, Craig E Henderson","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2023.2222405","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15374416.2023.2222405","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This pilot study tested pragmatic methods for training therapists in core techniques of two evidence-based interventions (EBIs) for adolescent externalizing problems: cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or family therapy (FT). Training methods were designed to help therapists accurately self-monitor their use of EBIs and increase delivery of EBIs with current clients. The study compared coder training only versus coder training plus fidelity-focused consultation.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Therapists (<i>N</i> = 42) from seven behavioral health clinics reported on 65 youth clients; four clinics elected to train in CBT and three in FT. Therapists were randomized to either coder training only, consisting of a 25-week observational coder training course (didactic instruction and mock session coding exercises in core EBI techniques); or coder training plus fidelity-focused consultation, consisting of direct-to-therapist fidelity measurement feedback along with fidelity-focused expert consultation. During the 25 weeks of training, therapists submitted self-report data on EBI use along with companion session audiotapes subsequently coded by observational raters.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Compared to coder training only, coder training plus fidelity-focused consultation produced superior effects in therapist ability to judge the extensiveness of EBI techniques in online coding sessions, as well as therapist ability to self-rate use of EBI techniques with their own cases. In both conditions, therapists who trained in CBT showed a significant, though modest, increase in real-world delivery of core CBT techniques; this did not occur for FT.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Pragmatic training and consultation methods show promise as viable and effective options for enhancing EBI fidelity monitoring and, for CBT, increasing EBI delivery.</p>","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"255-271"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10719425/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9624665","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":"Leaders in the History of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Past Presidents Series: Gertrude J. Williams (1975-1976)<sup />.","authors":"Ronald T Brown","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2025.2466150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2025.2466150","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":"54 2","pages":"184-187"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143701808","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 President Series: Herbert C. Quay (1985).","authors":"Radhika Srivastava","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2025.2466154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2025.2466154","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":"54 2","pages":"188-193"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143701806","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}
Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Meital Orbach, Michal Malka, Eli R Lebowitz
{"title":"Oxytocin as a Biomarker of Differential Effects to SPACE vs. CBT Treatment of Child Anxiety Disorders.","authors":"Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Meital Orbach, Michal Malka, Eli R Lebowitz","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2023.2188557","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15374416.2023.2188557","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Two lines of research, on outcome moderators and on novel treatment targets, seek to improve the overall efficacy of child anxiety treatment, with mixed results. We propose that an integration of both lines of research can lead to improved treatment efficacy. In a first proof of concept of this approach, we studied whether the interaction between baseline levels and targeted changes in peripheral oxytocin (OT) can predict differential responses to two childhood anxiety treatments.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A total of 124 mother-child dyads participated in the study. Children's salivary OT levels were measured at baseline and again, immediately after an experimental dyadic interaction in the lab. Dyads were subsequently randomized to receive one of two treatments, differing in their targets: SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) and CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy). Treatment outcomes were assessed using the Childhood Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders scale, reported by both mother and child.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings suggest that in SPACE, where the mother is the main agent of change, higher baseline levels of child OT, coupled with increases in OT following a positive mother-child interaction, predicted greater treatment efficacy. By contrast, in CBT, where the child is the main agent of change, higher baseline levels of child OT, coupled with a decrease in OT following the interaction, predicted greater treatment efficacy.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings highlight the importance of the integration between moderators and targets of treatments for progress toward improving treatment efficacy through precision medicine.</p>","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"220-228"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10638466/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9796954","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}
Emily M Cohodes, Sarah McCauley, David A Preece, James J Gross, Dylan G Gee
{"title":"Parental Assistance with Emotion Regulation Moderates Link Between COVID-19 Stress and Child Mental Health.","authors":"Emily M Cohodes, Sarah McCauley, David A Preece, James J Gross, Dylan G Gee","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2022.2140431","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15374416.2022.2140431","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted children's mental health. All children have not been affected equally, however, and whether parental emotion socialization might buffer or exacerbate the impact of COVID-19 on children's mental health remains an important question.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>During the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. <i>N</i> = 200 parents of children ages 0-17 (52.5% female) completed questionnaires related to parental assistance with children's emotion regulation, symptomatology, and exposure to COVID-19-related stress. Parents were 74% Non-Hispanic/Latino/a White, 13% Asian, 4.5% Hispanic/Latino/a, 4% Black/African American, 2.5% Native American, and 1.5% bi/multiracial; 0.5% of participants preferred not to state their race/ethnicity. In a series of linear regression analyses, we examined whether parental assistance with children's execution of emotion regulation strategies - across a variety of prototypically-adaptive and -maladaptive strategies - moderates the association between children's exposure to COVID-19-related stress and symptomatology.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results suggest that parental assistance with the execution of prototypically-adaptive strategies (i.e., acceptance, problem solving, behavioral disengagement) and prototypically-maladaptive strategies (i.e., suppression, rumination) may buffer or exacerbate, respectively, the impact of COVID-19-related stress on youth mental health.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Though interpretation of findings is constrained by limitations inherent in collecting data during a pandemic, results highlight the importance of supporting parents - who play a critical role of supporting children - during public health emergencies that affect family life. Interventions designed to improve child wellbeing during the ongoing pandemic may benefit from training parents to assist their children with specific emotion regulation strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"202-219"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10192455/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9482209","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":"10.1080/15374416.2020.1771952","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15374416.2020.1771952","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"287"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38041224","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}
Cynthia Brown, Matthew Lerner, Jenna Stadheim, Connor Kerns, Lauren Moskowitz, Elizabeth Cohn, Amy Drahota, Latha Soorya, Allison Wainer
{"title":"Provider Self-Reported Use and Usefulness of Intervention Strategies for Externalizing Behaviors in Youths with ASD.","authors":"Cynthia Brown, Matthew Lerner, Jenna Stadheim, Connor Kerns, Lauren Moskowitz, Elizabeth Cohn, Amy Drahota, Latha Soorya, Allison Wainer","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2023.2251163","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15374416.2023.2251163","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To examine predictors of implementation and perceived usefulness of four empirically supported strategies for treating externalizing behavior in youths with ASD.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants were 557 providers in the United States with experience treating externalizing behavior in youths with ASD. Generalized estimating equations were used to determine whether self-reported use and usefulness of four empirically supported intervention strategies (functional communication training, functional behavior analysis, visual tools/supports, token economy) were predicted by key provider characteristics: professional discipline, experience, and practice specialization (across three indices) in ASD. Post-hoc contrasts were performed to identify provider groups reporting the greatest use and usefulness of the four strategies.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Strategies were most often used by providers with behavioral backgrounds, though perceived usefulness of strategies varied by providers' professional discipline. Compared to providers with more than 10 years of experience, less experienced providers endorsed the highest average use and usefulness of almost all strategies. Regarding ASD practice specialization, a lower volume of ASD cases, treating fewer youths with ASD over a 5-year period, and having a higher proportion of practice time working with youths with ASD reported were associated with greater use and usefulness of the strategies.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Empirically supported strategies are widely used by and perceived as useful by providers who treat youths with ASD and co-occurring externalizing behaviors. Use and usefulness varies based on provider discipline, experience, and ASD practice specialization.</p>","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"240-254"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10937329/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10236038","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}
Abigail L Hogan, Kayla Smith, Nicholas D Mian, Conner Black, Erin Hunt, Chandler Knott, Carly Moser, Jenna Smith, Kelly E Caravella, Kimberly Hills, Amanda Fairchild, Alice S Carter, Jane Roberts
{"title":"Utility of the Modified Anxiety Dimensional Observation Scale in Autistic Preschoolers with Varying Intellectual Functioning.","authors":"Abigail L Hogan, Kayla Smith, Nicholas D Mian, Conner Black, Erin Hunt, Chandler Knott, Carly Moser, Jenna Smith, Kelly E Caravella, Kimberly Hills, Amanda Fairchild, Alice S Carter, Jane Roberts","doi":"10.1080/15374416.2025.2454647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2025.2454647","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Co-occurring anxiety affects 40-80% of autistic individuals; however, little is understood about how anxiety manifests in young autistic children, especially those with intellectual disability (ID), partly due to the paucity of measures designed to assess anxiety symptoms in this population. The present study examined the utility of the Modified Anxiety Dimensional Observation Scale (M-Anx-DOS), an observational measure of anxiety-related behaviors, in preschool-aged autistic children with and without ID.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This study included 48 autistic children (Mean age = 43.96 months; 81.3% with ID) and 30 non-autistic (NA) controls (Mean age = 43.66 months). Anxiety-related behaviors were measured during the M-Anx-DOS. Parent-reported anxiety symptoms were assessed via the Preschool Anxiety Scale-Revised (PAS-R).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Groups exhibited comparable scores on both the M-Anx-DOS and PAS-R. Within the autism group, a subset of M-Anx-DOS scores were related to age, autistic features, or IQ. The M-Anx-DOS exhibited excellent inter-rater reliability and acceptable internal consistency. Convergent validity was promising, with specific M-Anx-DOS scores correlated with parent-reported social, separation, and overall anxiety symptoms. M-Anx-DOS scores were not correlated with parent-reported ADHD or externalizing symptoms, suggesting strong discriminant validity.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study provides preliminary evidence of the reliability and validity of the M-Anx-DOS. These findings are promising given the importance of observational measurement of anxiety and lack of existing measures for this critical developmental period. Given the sample size and the complexity of identifying prodromal signs of anxiety in young autistic preschoolers with ID, future longitudinal work is essential to replicate and extend this work.</p>","PeriodicalId":48350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494268","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}