Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The research group in child and adolescent psychiatry studies how mental disorders develop, how they should be diagnosed and treated.
Description of our research
The research is based on a bio-psycho-social model where biological, psychological and social factors interact in the development of child psychiatric symptoms.
Risk and protective factors for mental disorders are investigated in both clinical and epidemiological studies. Psychological and biological mechanisms are studied, partly for the development of psychiatric symptoms, partly for the effect of treatment. The consequences of early-onset child psychiatric symptoms are investigated in long-term follow-ups. The research group works with development of diagnostic instruments and psychometrically evaluates these. We perform clinical trials and evaluate the effect of different treatments. The research is conducted in both international and national collaboration with other research groups.
Senior researchers within the group are Johan Isaksson, Ulf Jonsson, Vendela Zetterqvist, Matilda Frick, Vladislav Ruchkin and Mia Ramklint.
The group's research projects are presented based on relation to field of knowledge.
Group members
Publications
Trajectories of sickness absence and disability pension in young working-age adults in Sweden
Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
- DOI for Trajectories of sickness absence and disability pension in young working-age adults in Sweden
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Part of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, p. 1-17, 2025
Part of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, p. 1649-1659, 2025
- DOI for Adult mental health outcomes of adolescent depression and co-occurring alcohol use disorder: a longitudinal cohort study
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Part of Läkartidningen, 2025
Does Mind-Wandering Explain ADHD-Related Impairment in Adolescents?
Part of Child Psychiatry and Human Development, p. 346-357, 2025
- DOI for Does Mind-Wandering Explain ADHD-Related Impairment in Adolescents?
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Part of Journal of Psychiatric Research, p. 248-253, 2025
- DOI for Are adolescent males or females more proficient self-raters of symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder?
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Part of Journal of Attention Disorders, p. 541-553, 2025
- DOI for ADHD and Identity Formation: Adolescents' Experiences From the Healthcare System and Peer Relationships
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Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2025
- DOI for Identity work among girls with ADHD: struggling with Me and I, impression management, and social camouflaging in school
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Part of Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2025
Part of Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2025
- DOI for Challenges with shifting, regardless of disengagement: attention mechanisms and eye movements in Williams syndrome
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Neurodevelopmental conditions and adaptive functioning - a co-twin control study.
Part of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2025
Part of Child Psychiatry and Human Development, p. 595-604, 2025
- DOI for Community Violence Exposure and Eating Disorder Symptoms among Belgian, Russian and US Adolescents: Cross-Country and Gender Perspectives
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Anger and Aggression in Russian Adolescents
Part of JAACAP Open, p. 126-136, 2025
- DOI for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Anger and Aggression in Russian Adolescents
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2025
Part of Nordic Social Work Research, p. 17-28, 2025
- DOI for Me & my family: a programme for children and parents in families with parental substance use problems – an outcome study
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Part of BMC Psychiatry, 2025
- DOI for Low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for adolescent treatment resistant depression - a feasibility study
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2025
- DOI for 'Navigating a lonely road to adulthood with an ever-changing map'; a framework and case study protocol exploring the transition to adulthood, mental health literacy and occupational balance among Swedish young adults
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Part of Journal of Adolescent Health, p. 105-114, 2025
- DOI for Pathways From Early Life Adversities to Youth Marginalization: A Longitudinal Study of Youth Not in Education, Employment, or Training
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Part of Psychiatry Research, 2025
- DOI for Psychotic-like experiences in young offenders: Prevalence, psychiatric comorbidity and personality traits
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, p. 399-410, 2025
- DOI for The Path to Loneliness for Psychiatric Patients: A Qualitative Study of a Journey Marked by Pain, Hopelessness, Prosocial Signaling Deficits, and Coping Strategies That Are Not Effective
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Part of Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, p. 1-8, 2025
Part of Psychiatry Research, 2025
- DOI for The implementation of internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy for adolescents with insomnia comorbid to psychiatric conditions at two child and adolescent psychiatry clinics.
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Part of Journal of Interprofessional Care, p. 479-486, 2025
- DOI for Navigating consensus, interprofessional collaboration between nurses and psychiatrists in hospital care for patients with deliberate self-harm
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Part of Disability and Rehabilitation, p. 1-14, 2025
Part of BMC Psychiatry, 2025
- DOI for Sociodemographic predictors of mental health service utilization among young adults with support in daily living in Sweden: a register-based study
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Psychometric Evaluation of the Swedish Version of the Child Behaviour Check List (CBCL) 1.5-5
Part of Acta Paediatrica, p. 1926-1934, 2025
- DOI for Psychometric Evaluation of the Swedish Version of the Child Behaviour Check List (CBCL) 1.5-5
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A registry study on nonsyndromic craniosynostosis: Long-term associations with academic achievement
Part of Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, p. 104-111, 2025
- DOI for A registry study on nonsyndromic craniosynostosis: Long-term associations with academic achievement
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Part of Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2025
- DOI for Differential susceptibility effects of the 5-HTTLPR and MAOA genotypes on decision making under risk in the Iowa gambling task
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Food Insecurity and Loneliness in the Former Soviet Countries
Part of International Journal of Public Health, 2025
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Part of International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2025
- DOI for Attitudes and ethical beliefs of Russian psychiatrists towards the use of coercive treatment practices
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Part of Journal of Pain Research, p. 1545-1561, 2025
- DOI for Day-to-Day Risk and Resilience Factors in the Context of Pediatric Post-Surgical Recovery - A Network Analysis of Intensive Longitudinal Data From Adolescents Undergoing Spinal Fusion Surgery and Their Parents
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Part of World Neurosurgery, 2025
- DOI for Preliminary Validation of a Diary Approach to Monitor Daily Adolescent and Parental Predictors of Postoperative Recovery-A Longitudinal Diary Study in Adolescents Undergoing Spinal Fusion Surgery
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Fear extinction retention in children, adolescents, and adults
Part of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2025
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Part of BMC Psychology, 2025
- DOI for I've really struggled but it does not seem to work: adolescents' experiences of living with ADHD - a thematic analysis
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Part of Molecular autism, p. 59, 2025
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
- DOI for Caudate nucleus volume in medicated and unmedicated patients with early- and adult-onset schizophrenia
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Part of Youth & society, p. 579-596, 2024
- DOI for Direct and Indirect Effects of Adolescent Peer Victimization and Mental Health on Academic Achievement in Early Adulthood: A 6-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study
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Part of Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, p. 100725, 2024
- DOI for Exploring psychological flexibility as in-treatment behaviour during internet-delivered acceptance and commitment therapy for paediatric chronic pain: Occurrence and relation to outcome
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Part of International Journal of Behavioral Development, p. 398-410, 2024
- DOI for Predicting emotion regulation in typically developing toddlers: Insights into the joint and unique influences of various contextual predictors
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Beyond Symptoms - A Cross-Sectional Study Exploring Functioning in Psychiatric Outpatients
Part of Psychiatry, p. 353-371, 2024
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Part of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2024
- DOI for The severity of perceived stress associated with community violence exposure and its role in future posttraumatic stress: findings from a longitudinal study of U.S. adolescents
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Part of Journal of Eating Disorders, 2024
- DOI for Longitudinal associations between community violence exposure, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and eating disorder symptoms
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Enuresis in young offenders: a study on prevalence and mental health comorbidity
Part of Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2024
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Part of Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, p. 79-86, 2024
- DOI for Temperament, but not childhood trauma, distinguishes borderline personality disorder from bipolar disorder and ADHD
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Part of Human Brain Mapping, 2024
- DOI for Large-scale analysis of structural brain asymmetries during neurodevelopment: Associations with age and sex in 4265 children and adolescents
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Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 3043-3058, 2024
- DOI for Support in Daily Living for Young Adults with Neurodevelopmental Conditions in Sweden: A Qualitative Description of Current Practice
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Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2024
- DOI for 'If I Don't Have My Support Worker in the Room…': A Multi-perspective Mixed Methods Study of Remote Daily Living Support for Neurodivergent Young Adults
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Motor Development of Children in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Parent Survey
Part of Children, 2024
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Does Camouflaging Cause Reduced Quality of Life? A Co-Twin Control Study.
Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2024
Memory training with the method of loci for children and adolescents with ADHD-A feasibility study
Part of Applied Neuropsychology, p. 137-145, 2024
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