Although irritability is among the most common reasons that children and adolescents are
brought for psychiatric care, there are few effective treatments. Developmentally sensitive …

Irritability is a common and impairing clinical presentation in children and adolescents.
Despite its significant public health impact, irritability remains an elusive construct. Chronic …

Rationale A dimensional approach in psychiatry aims to identify core mechanisms of mental
disorders across nosological boundaries. Objectives We compared anticipation of reward …

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology is a comprehensive introduction to the field. It
covers theoretical and methodological foundations and examines the characteristics …

Executive function (EF) refers to the set of cognitive processes involved in the self-regulation
of emotion and goal-directed behavior. These skills and the brain systems that support them …

Manual of Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C) with Externalizing
Behaviors: A Psychodynamic Approach offers a new, short term psychotherapeutic …

Psychiatric disorders have traditionally been classified using a static, categorical approach.
However, this approach falls short in facilitating understanding of the development, common …

Importance Bipolar disorder (BD) is highly familial and characterized by deficits in reward
processing. It is not known, however, whether these deficits precede illness onset or are a …

The past 2 decades have seen a rapid increase in the amount of research on bipolar
disorder in children and adolescents, including studies that look at the accuracy of symptom …

Abstract The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) adopts a dimensional approach for
examining pathophysiological processes underlying categorically defined psychiatric …