Adolescent Psychiatry - Volume 14, Issue 1, 2024

Background: Systemic racism and health inequality for Children and Adolescents of Color (CAoC) and their families need to be acknowledged and addressed in the provision of mental health treatment by child and adolescent psychiatrists. The lack of parity for behavioral health drives the lack of integration of “mental” health with overall health and the lack of funding, policy, planning, and practices to support the social and em Read More

The onset of common mental illnesses, such as mood and anxiety disorders, often begins in adolescence and young adulthood. While traditional clinical care focuses on reducing psychiatric symptoms, it is important to simultaneously promote positive psychological states (i.e., flourishing). In this brief review, we synthesize the published literature on flourishing among adolescents and young adults with mood and anxiety disor Read More

COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, began in late 2019. On March 11th, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the virus a pandemic, and by March 13th, 2020, the United States (US) government declared the pandemic a national emergency and, subsequently, a global pandemic. Since then, the world has experienced an upheaval affecting every age group in almost every aspect of life. This was particul Read More

Objective: The existing literature on the contribution of substance use and psychosocial risk factors in the development of suicidal ideation in the Turkish youth provides limited information. This study aims to compare the relative association of substance use and psychosocial risk factors with suicidal ideation in a sample of high school students in Istanbul. Methods: High school students were administered a survey of 66 questio Read More

Background: At present, there is little data on the factor structure of ADHD symptoms in adolescents, especially as they are organized in the International Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10) or the recently proposed ADHD S-1 bifactor model. This study aimed to analyze how mother and adolescent self-ratings of ADHD symptoms align with these models. Methods: This study utilized confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) on a Read More