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The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry is widely recognised to be the leading international journal covering both child and adolescent psychology and psychiatry. With a large and expanding global readership, its coverage includes studies on pediatric epidemiology, diagnosis, psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological treatments, behaviour, cognition, neuroscience, neurobiology, and genetic aspects of childhood disorders. We bring together empirical research, clinical studies, and reviews of high quality that arise from different points of view, different theoretical perspectives, and different disciplines.
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Annual Research Review 2024
“Time may change me”: Developmental change across multiple time scales
Editorial by Sara R. Jaffee
"Two years ago, the title of my editorial (with thanks to Edmund Sonuga-Barke and Bob Dylan) was ‘The times they are a-changin’. This title was meant to highlight the paradigm shifts in the field reflected in the papers included in that year's Annual Research Review. This year's editorial is instead titled ‘The people, they are a-changin’. This is because, overwhelmingly, the papers in the 2024 Annual Research Review describe how people and systems change each other, how people change over developmental and historical time, and how environments characterized by change impact human development."
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CME for Reviewers
The Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) with Wiley now offers continuing medical education (CME) credit for peer review of manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Read more information about CME for Reviewers.Articles
Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US population over the past 75 years
-  4 December 2024
Associations of socioeconomic status with cognitive function, language ability, and academic achievement in youth: a systematic review of mechanisms and protective factors
-  3 December 2024
Neural correlates of children with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder symptoms: large‐scale neuroanatomical analysis of a paediatric population
-  2 December 2024
Daily fluctuations in adolescents' sleep predict next-day attention, sleepiness, and fatigue: an ecological momentary assessment study over 28 days
-  1 December 2024
No associations between neuroborreliosis in children and psychiatric neurodevelopmental disorders: a nationwide, population‐based, matched cohort study
-  1 December 2024
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A Research Note
-  581-586
-  7 December 2006
Annual Research Review: A meta‐analysis of the worldwide prevalence of mental disorders in children and adolescents
-  345-365
-  3 February 2015
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The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test Revised Version: A Study with Normal Adults, and Adults with Asperger Syndrome or High‐functioning Autism
-  241-251
-  7 October 2003
Cyberbullying: its nature and impact in secondary school pupils
-  376-385
-  19 March 2008