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
Part of Läkartidningen, 2025
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 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 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 Disability and Rehabilitation, p. 1-14, 2025
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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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
- DOI for Fear extinction retention in children, adolescents, and adults
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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 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 European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2024
Part of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, p. 2253-2266, 2024
- DOI for Pervasive versus situational childhood ADHD: latent classes and their clinical characteristics, based on parent and teacher ratings in a large longitudinal population sample
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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
Beyond Symptoms - A Cross-Sectional Study Exploring Functioning in Psychiatric Outpatients
Part of Psychiatry, p. 353-371, 2024
- DOI for Beyond Symptoms - A Cross-Sectional Study Exploring Functioning in Psychiatric Outpatients
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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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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Anger and Aggression in Russian Adolescents
Part of JAACAP Open, 2024
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
- DOI for Enuresis in young offenders: a study on prevalence and mental health comorbidity
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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
- DOI for Motor Development of Children in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Parent Survey
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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. Child, p. 137-145, 2024
- DOI for Memory training with the method of loci for children and adolescents with ADHD-A feasibility study
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Correlations between personality traits, personality disorders, and immunometabolic markers
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
- DOI for Correlations between personality traits, personality disorders, and immunometabolic markers
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Part of Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 2024
- DOI for Parental satisfaction with hospital care for children with non-syndromic craniosynostosis: A mixed-method study
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Loneliness and posttraumatic stress in U.S. adolescents: A longitudinal study
Part of Journal of Affective Disorders, p. 113-119, 2024
Mental disorders in former street-working boys
Part of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, p. 1783-1792, 2024
- DOI for Mental disorders in former street-working boys
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Part of Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, p. 382-391, 2024
- DOI for The WHO Adult ADHD self-report Scale used in a clinical sample of patients with overlapping symptoms - psychometric properties of and scoring methods for the Swedish translation
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Part of Developmental Psychobiology, 2024
- DOI for The influence of anterior cingulate GABA+ and glutamate on emotion regulation and reactivity in adolescents and adults
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Part of BMC Public Health, 2024
- DOI for The role of familial factors and neuroticism in the association between exposure to offensive behaviors at work and long-term sickness absence due to common mental disorders - a prospective twin study
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Part of Journal of Affective Disorders, p. 271-279, 2023
- DOI for Longitudinal trajectories of sickness absence among young adults with a history of depression and anxiety symptoms in Sweden
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Part of JAMA Network Open, 2023
- DOI for Associations of Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Childhood and Adolescence With Adult Labor Market Marginalization
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Part of Molecular Psychiatry, p. 1159-1169, 2023
- DOI for In vivo white matter microstructure in adolescents with early-onset psychosis: a multi-site mega-analysis
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Part of Journal of clinical medicine, 2023
- DOI for Associations between Elemental Metabolic Dynamics and Default Mode Network Functional Connectivity Are Altered in Autism.
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Part of iScience, 2023
- DOI for Deciduous tooth biomarkers reveal atypical fetal inflammatory regulation in autism spectrum disorder.
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Part of Journal of Eating Disorders, 2023
- DOI for The relationship between self-control and symptoms of anxiety and depression in patients with eating disorders: a cross-sectional study including exploratory longitudinal data
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The Role of Comorbid Symptoms in Perceived Stress and Sleep Problems in Adolescent ADHD
Part of Child Psychiatry and Human Development, p. 1141-1151, 2023
- DOI for The Role of Comorbid Symptoms in Perceived Stress and Sleep Problems in Adolescent ADHD
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Part of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, p. 1-17, 2023
- DOI for Examining predictors of treatment effect in digital Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for chronic pain
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Part of Behavioural Brain Research, 2023
- DOI for Pupil dilation during negative prediction errors is related to brain choline concentration and depressive symptoms in adolescents
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Part of Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2023
Evaluation of Birth Weight and Neurodevelopmental Conditions Among Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins.
Part of JAMA Network Open, 2023
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Bulimia symptoms and anger and aggression among adolescents
Part of BMC Public Health, 2023
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Part of Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, p. 747-753, 2023
- DOI for Changes in patterns of alcohol consumption in young psychiatric outpatients: two comparable samples assessed with 10 years apart
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Williams syndrome: reduced orienting to other's eyes in a hypersocial phenotype
Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 2786-2797, 2023
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