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Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Author: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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© 2025 Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Each month JAACAP highlights a selected article found within the pages of the Journal by providing a podcast interview with the author. Tune in regularly to this feature of JAACAP, where we strive for a relaxed 'fireside chat' atmosphere in which authors can share aspects of their science that we are less often privy to. Podcasts are typically 15 to 20 minutes in length.
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October 2025: Contributing Editor Janet Charoensook interviews Paul E. Croarkin on an examination of 2 different doses (1 Hz and 10 Hz) of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) treatment for adolescents with depression and if a brain chemical called glutamate could assist in guiding the TMS treatment in adolescents with depression.
JAACAP September 2025: Contributing Editor Aarya K. Rajalakshmi interviews Alex Wright-Hughes and David Cottrell on a meta-analysis of 33 randomized controlled trials involving 4,146 adolescents that found therapeutic interventions were no more effective than standard care at preventing repeat self-harm at 12 months.
JAACAP August 2025: Contributing Editor Shinnyi Chou interviews Alison Athey on a nationally representative study that used more than 30 years of mortality data maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to evaluate the association between a firearm storage policy and youth suicide mortality.
JAACAP July 2025: Contributing Editor Narpinder Kaur Malhi interviews Katherine E. Venturo-Conerly on a 5-group randomized controlled trial that investigated effects of the full Shamiri intervention and its components with adolescents from Kenyan high schools.
JAACAP June 2025: Contributing Editor Dorothy Chyung interviews Connie Kasari on a randomized clinical trial comparing interventions to improve spoken language
JAACAP May 2025: Contributing Editor Dr. Janet Charoensook interviews Dr. Tina R. Goldstein on a randomized clinical trial that examines the efficacy of brief intervention and/or a safety plan phone application for suicide prevention after discharge.
JAACAP April 2025: Contributing Editor Dr. Jesse Hinckley interviews Dr. Julia O. Linke on how access to neighborhood resources shapes the behavioral and neurobiological responses to negatively biased environments in youth.
JAACAP March 2025: Contributing Editor Dr. Shinnyi Chou interviews Dr. Alessio Bellato on a review of 93 systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials examining non-medication sleep interventions for children and adolescents.
JAACAP February 2025: Contributing Editor Dr. Narpinder Kaur Malhi interviews Dr. Andrea Danese and Dr. Bennett L. Leventhal on limited evidence for the use of digital mental health interventions for children and adolescents affected by war.
JAACAP January 2025: Contributing Editor Dr. Apurva Bhatt interviews Dr. Anne E. de Leeuw on a study that found women with a migration background reported more stress during pregnancy and more autistic traits in their children six years later than mothers without a migration background.
JAACAP December 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Janet Charoensook interviews Dr. Julia O. Linke on the utility of a bifactor approach parsing common and unique aspectsof irritability, inattention, and hyperactivity to advance the etiological understanding of these 3 common forms of pediatric psychopathology.
JAACAP November 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Jesse Hinckley interviews Dr. Margarita Alegría on the powerful methods of combining yearly and daily time data toinvestigate how and for whom discrimination-related stressors lead to adverse outcomes.
JAACAP October 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Rana Elmaghraby interviews Dr. Gregory A. Aarons about measurement-based care (MBC), which collects session-by-session symptom data from patients and provides clinicians with feedback on treatment response.
JAACAP September 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Narpinder Malhi interviews Dr. Michele S. Berk about a study evaluating rates of remission, recovery, relapse, and recurrence insuicidal youth who participated in a clinical trial comparing Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Individual and Group Supportive Therapy (IGST).
JAACAP August 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Apurva Bhatt interviews Dr. Joel T. Nigg on a systematic review and meta-analysis that included 13 studies and found that white/pink noise improved cognitive performance for children and young adults with ADHD or high ADHD symptoms.
JAACAP July 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Rana Elmaghraby interviews Dr. Jordan A. Freeman on a Hybrid Type-II Implementation-Effectiveness trial conducted in Sierra Leone where researchers tested a Collaborative Team Approach (CTA) for delivering an evidence-based mental health intervention, the Youth Readiness Intervention (YRI), within a youth entrepreneurship program.
JAACAP June 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Jesse Hinckley interviews Dr. James D. Lock about a study investigating the addition of 3 sessions of intensive parentalcoaching intervention to family-based treatment among youth with anorexia who did not gain adequate weight early in treatment, a predictor ofrecovery by the end of treatment.
JAACAP May 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Aarya K. Rajalakshmi interviews Dr. Mariko Hosozawa on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent mental health, and a comparison of depressive symptoms among 16-year-olds surveyed, at a fourth wave, before or during the pandemic, while accounting for expected trajectories of within-person change based on 3 prior waves.
JAACAP April 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Jack L. Turban interviews Ms. Maria Jose Luna, MS, and Linda A. Teplin, PhD, on a prospective longitudinal study usingdata from the Northwestern Juvenile Project that examines whether youth with mental health disorders receive needed services after they left juveniledetention, up to median age 32 years.
JAACAP March 2024: Contributing Editor Dr. Apurva Bhatt interviews Dr. Christopher J. Hammond on the need to further study the public health effects of changing cannabis policies on youth and to consider evidence-informed legislative reforms to mitigate the risk for harm in vulnerable populations.