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Characterization and Prediction of Anxiety in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Longitudinal Study.
Abstract Anxiety is one of the most common comorbidities in youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The current study's aims were: To examine the frequency of elevated anxiety symptoms in adolescents diagnosed with ASD in toddlerhood; To explore the impact of comorbid anxiety in adolescents on clinical presentation; To evaluate variables in toddlerhood that associate with anxiety symptom severity in adolescence. The study included 61 adolescents (mean age = 13:8y) diagnosed with ASD in toddlerhood (T1). Participants underwent a comprehensive assessment of cognitive ability, adaptive skills and autis...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 1, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ben-Itzchak E, Koller J, Zachor DA Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Moderating the Risk for Attention Deficits in Children with Pre-Adoptive Adversity: The Protective Role of Shorter Duration of out of Home Placement and Children's Enhanced Error Monitoring.
Abstract Early institutional-deprivation has been found to increase risk for inattention/hyperactivity (ADHD). Notably, studies suggest that children with a history of adversity evidencing an enhanced ERP (the error-related-negativity; ERN) may be protected against attention problems. However, such protective effects of the ERN have been studied in children whom typically experienced residential instability. It is unknown whether error-monitoring is similarly protective for children with stable post-deprivation placements. The present study examined the protective effect of the ERN in a sample of children ...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - June 29, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Frenkel TI, Donzella B, Frenn KA, Rousseau S, Fox NA, Gunnar MR Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Risk Taking by Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): a Behavioral and Psychophysiological Investigation of Peer Influence.
Abstract Adolescents with ADHD demonstrate increased risk-taking behavior (RTB) like substance abuse and dangerous traffic conduct. RTB in adolescence is more likely under peer influence. The current investigation (1) tests the hypothesis that adolescents with ADHD are particularly susceptible to such influence and (2) tests whether groups differed in autonomic reactivity to peer influence. Adolescent boys between 12 and 19 years with (n = 81) and without (n = 99) ADHD performed the Balloon Analogue Risk Task twice. In the peer condition, a highly credible virtual peer manipulation that encouraged...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - June 29, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dekkers TJ, Popma A, Sonuga-Barke EJS, Oldenhof H, Bexkens A, Jansen BRJ, Huizenga HM Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

The Interactive Effects of Child Maltreatment and Adolescent Pregnancy on Late-Adolescent Depressive Symptoms.
Abstract Adolescent females are disproportionately at risk for depression, which is expected to represent the leading cause of disability in 2030 (National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH] 2019). Although prior research has suggested that both child maltreatment and adolescent pregnancy increase the risk for depressive symptoms, less is known about how these two interact to influence depression in late adolescence. The present study tested the unique and interactive effects of adolescent pregnancy and child maltreatment on late-adolescent depressive symptomatology (N = 186) with a prospective, longitu...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - June 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Russotti J, Handley ED, Rogosch FA, Toth SL, Cicchetti D Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Psychological Distress amid Change: Role Disruption in Girls during the Adolescent Transition.
Abstract The present study investigates the underlying cognitive, social, and behavioral tendencies that may explain why some girls are more likely to perceive the adolescent transition as disrupting and difficult, otherwise characterized as role disruption. It was hypothesized that individual differences in rumination, rejection sensitivity, peer problems, and pubertal status would contribute to why some girls perceived more role disruption during the transition from childhood to adolescence, and that girls who reported more role disruption would be at increased risk for subsequent depression. N = 188...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - June 23, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Koch MK, Mendle J, Beam C Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Executive Functioning and Activity in Children: a Multimethod Examination of Working Memory, Inhibition, and Hyperactivity.
Abstract Two primary methods of quantifying executive functioning include self- or other-reports (i.e., questionnaire-based EF) and cognitive test performance (i.e., task-based EF). Despite their lack of concordance with one another and relatively inconsistent associations with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, both approaches have been utilized in attempts to advance our understanding of the role of EF in symptoms of ADHD. The current study is the first to incorporate a direct assessment of behavior (i.e., actigraphy) to further clarify the relation between EF and hyperactivity usi...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - June 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Smith JN, Raiker JS, Fosco WD, Jusko ML, Campez M, Little K, Mattfeld A, Espinal K, Sanchez G, Merrill B, Musser ED, Gnagy E, Greiner A, Coles E, Pelham WE Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Callous-Unemotional Traits and Antisocial Behavior in South Korean Children: Links with Academic Motivation, School Engagement, and Teachers' Use of Reward and Discipline.
Abstract Callous-unemotional (CU) traits have been associated with atypical responses to reward and punishment cues, with evidence suggesting that such traits may shape caregiver use of reward and punishment practices over time. To date, research has predominantly focused on parental rewards and discipline, with far less attention paid to teacher behavior management strategies. The first aim of the current study was to investigate the potential moderating effect of CU traits on the relationship between teacher classroom management strategies (rewards and discipline) and two important school-related outcome...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - June 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hwang S, Waller R, Hawes DJ, Allen JL Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Neurocognitive Correlates of Rumination Risk in Children: Comparing Competing Model Predictions in a Clinically Heterogeneous Sample.
This study aimed to (a) extend current conceptual models of rumination to youth, (b) clarify disparate model predictions regarding working memory updating ("updating"), inhibition, and shifting abilities, and (c) examine differential neurocognitive predictions between two forms of rumination, sadness and anger. One hundred and fifty-nine youths oversampled for ADHD and other forms of child psychopathology associated with executive dysfunction (aged 8-13; 53.5% male; 59.1% Caucasian) completed a battery of assessments, including self-report measures of rumination and computerized neurocognitive tasks. Multiple regression an...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - June 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Harmon SL, Kistner JA, Kofler MJ Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Internet-Delivered Parent Training for Preschoolers with Conduct Problems: Do Callous-Unemotional Traits Moderate Efficacy and Engagement?
Abstract Recent efforts to improve access to evidence-based parent training programs using online delivery have largely neglected findings that young children with callous-unemotional (CU)-type conduct problems receive less benefit from parent training than children with conduct problems alone. The current study aimed to examine the moderating effect of child CU traits on efficacy and engagement outcomes associated with Internet-delivered Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (iPCIT) versus standard, clinic-based PCIT. Forty families (57.6% non-Hispanic Caucasian) with a 3-5 year-old (M = 3.95 years, SD�...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - June 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fleming GE, Kimonis ER, Furr JM, Comer JS Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Empathic Accuracy in Female Adolescents with Conduct Disorder and Sex Differences in the Relationship Between Conduct Disorder and Empathy.
This study demonstrates that females with CD show relatively specific impairments in affective empathy on an ecologically-valid task, whereas males with CD display more global empathic difficulties. PMID: 32488571 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology)
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - June 1, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Martin-Key NA, Allison G, Fairchild G Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Comorbid anxiety and irritability symptoms and their association with cognitive functioning in children with ADHD.
This study aims to investigate whether irritability and anxiety are uniquely associated with performance on measures of cognitive functioning in children with ADHD and whether these associations hold when accounting for confounding variables. Baseline data was used from a randomised controlled trial of cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety in children with ADHD (N = 219, 8-13 years). Anxiety was assessed using the child- and parent-reported Spence Children's Anxiety Scale, while irritability was assessed using the parent-reported Affective Reactivity Index. Children completed the National Institutes of Health Tool...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - May 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Read N, Mulraney M, McGillivray J, Sciberras E Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Lived Experiences of Diagnostic Shifts in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Contexts: a Qualitative Interview Study with Young People and Parents.
Abstract Psychiatric diagnoses are important resources in helping young people and families make sense of emotional or behavioural difficulties. However, the poor reliability of diagnoses in childhood means many young service-users experience their diagnosis being removed, revised or supplemented over time. No previous research has investigated how young service-users experience, understand or respond to alteration of their original diagnosis. The current study adopted a qualitative approach to explore the lived experience of diagnostic shifts in youth mental health contexts. Narrative interviews were cond...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - May 22, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: O'Connor C, McNicholas F Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Attentional Bias for Cues Signaling Punishment and Reward in Adolescents: Cross-Sectional and Prognostic Associations with Symptoms of Anxiety and Behavioral Disorders.
Abstract Heightened reward sensitivity has been proposed as a risk factor for developing behavioral disorders whereas heightened punishment sensitivity has been related to the development of anxiety disorders in youth. Combining a cross-sectional (n = 696, mean age = 16.14) and prospective (n = 598, mean age = 20.20) approach, this study tested the hypotheses that an attentional bias for punishing cues is involved in the development of anxiety disorders and an attentional bias for rewarding cues in the development of behavioral disorders. A spatial orientation task was used to examine the r...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - May 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kreuze LJ, Jonker NC, Hartman CA, Nauta MH, de Jong PJ Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Clarifying ADHD and Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Item Relations with Impairment: A Network Analysis.
Abstract Despite the pervasive nature of various forms of impairment associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the precise nature of their associations with ADHD and related sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT), particularly at the heterogeneous item level, remains ambiguous. Using innovative network analysis techniques, we sought to identify and examine the concurrent validity of ADHD and SCT bridge items (i.e., those demonstrating the most robust relations with various forms of impairment) with respect to Overall, Home-School, and Community-Leisure impairment domains. Parents of a nation...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - May 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Goh PK, Martel MM, Barkley RA Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Emotion Regulation among Children in Foster Care Versus Birth Parent Care: Differential Effects of an Early Home-Visiting Intervention.
Abstract Children involved with Child Protective Services (CPS) often show worse emotion regulation than non-involved children, with downstream effects on adaptive functioning. The current study uses two randomized control trials, one conducted with foster caregivers and one conducted with birth parents, to investigate the longitudinal effects of caregiver type (foster versus birth parent) and a home-visiting parenting intervention on emotion regulation among young children referred to CPS. Participants were 211 children referred to CPS during infancy or toddlerhood, of whom 120 remained with their birth p...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - May 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Labella MH, Lind T, Sellers T, Roben CKP, Dozier M Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research