"Child psychopathology" from_date:2012

On the regulation and dysregulation of emotions in child psychopathology: commentary on Blader et al. (2025). Blader et al.'s (2025) recent annual review article makes an important contribution to the literature on emotion dysregulation in child and adolescent mental health. In addition to synthesizing the current evidence base, the authors put forth a cogent formalized view of emotion regulatory

Joint Effects of Indoor Air Pollution and Maternal Psychosocial Factors During Pregnancy on Trajectories of Early Childhood Psychopathology. Prenatal indoor air pollution and maternal psychosocial factors have been associated with adverse psychopathology. We used environmental exposure mixture methodology to investigate joint effects of both exposure classes on child behavior trajectories to environmental pollutants and psychosocial factors was associated with internalizing and externalizing child behavior trajectories. Understanding joint effects of adverse exposure mixtures will facilitate targeted interventions to prevent childhood psychopathology.

Multimodal neural correlates of childhood psychopathology. Complex structural and functional changes occurring in typical and atypical development necessitate multidimensional approaches to better understand the risk of developing psychopathology. Here, we simultaneously examined structural and functional brain network patterns in relation to dimensions of psychopathology in the Adolescent Brain

Atypical child-parent neural synchrony is linked to negative family emotional climate and children's psychopathological symptoms. Family emotional climate is fundamental to children's well-being and mental health. Family environments filled with negative emotions may lead to increased psychopathological symptoms in the child through dysfunctional child-parent interactions. Single-brain paradigms have uncovered changes in brain systems and networks related to negative family environments, but how the neurobiological reciprocity between child and parent brains is associated with children's psychopathological symptoms remains unknown. Here, we first investigated the relation between family emotional climate and children's psychopathological symptoms in 395 child-parent dyads. Using

Change in parent and child psychopathology following obesity treatment and maintenance: A secondary data analysis. General and eating disorder (ED) psychopathology are common among children and adults with overweight/obesity; few studies have examined their course of change throughout family-based behavioural obesity treatment (FBT) and maintenance. Examine: (1) the changes in the parent were observed from baseline to post-FBT in all forms of psychopathology; reductions were maintained from post-FBT to post-maintenance. There was no significant interaction between maintenance condition and time. Correlations between change in most forms of parent or child psychopathology and percent overweight were observed. Participation in FBT and maintenance was associated with improvements

Socioeconomic status and risk for child psychopathology: exploring gene-environment interaction in the presence of gene-environment correlation using extended families in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Birth Cohort Study. Low socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with increased risk for emotional and behavioural problems among children. Evidence from twin studies has shown that family

Editorial: In Utero Exposure to Maternal Affective Symptoms: Prenatal Programming of Child Psychopathology Is Independent of Shared Genes of Risk. The womb is an influential first home. This felicitous phrase is attributed to David Barker, often called the father of the late 20th century developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis, which asserts that maternal experiences during

Developmental deviation in delay discounting as a transdiagnostic indicator of risk for child psychopathology. The tendency to prefer smaller, immediate rewards over larger, delayed rewards is known as delay discounting (DD). Developmental deviations in DD may be key in characterizing psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. Recent work empirically supported DD as a transdiagnostic process

Functional Outcomes Among Young People With Trajectories of Persistent Childhood Psychopathology. Understanding which children in the general population are at greatest risk of poor functional outcomes could improve early screening and intervention strategies. To investigate the odds of poor outcomes in emerging adulthood (ages 17 to 20 years) for children with different mental health psychopathology, 1025 (19.9%) as having persistent externalizing psychopathology, 243 (4.7%) as having persistent internalizing psychopathology, and 147 (2.9%) as having persistent high psychopathology. Having any childhood psychopathology was associated with poorer functional outcomes in emerging adulthood. The internalizing group had elevated odds of most outcomes except for heavy substance use (range of odds

The quality of father-child feeding interactions mediates the effect of maternal depression on children's psychopathological symptoms. Research has shown that Postnatal maternal depression (PND) is associated with children's emotional and behavioral problems during infancy, but the possible effect of father-child relationship quality on this association is yet to be thoroughly investigated. We

Allowances), child psychopathology scales as dependent variables and demographic variables as covariates. Regression models showed a significant effect of maternal internalizing symptomatology on child externalizing behavioral problems; high levels of maternal pathology predicted high levels of children's psychopathology. A total mediating effect of parenting measures was found: high levels Relationship between parenting measures and parents and child psychopathological symptoms: a cross-sectional study. Increasing evidence suggests a complex role of family influences, such as the exposure to parent psychopathology through parenting behavior, in parent-to-child psychopathology transmission. Parenting behaviour could represent a relevant target of psychoeducative intervention. Given

Maternal Prenatal Mood, Pregnancy-Specific Worries, and Early Child Psychopathology: Findings From the DREAM BIG Consortium. Few studies have attempted to identify how distinct dimensions of maternal prenatal affective symptoms relate to offspring psychopathology. We defined latent dimensions of women's prenatal affective symptoms and pregnancy-specific worries to examine their association

Alterations of empathy in mothers with a history of early life maltreatment, depression, and borderline personality disorder and their effects on child psychopathology. Early life maltreatment (ELM), borderline personality disorder (BPD), and major depressive disorder (MDD) have been associated with empathy deficits in different domains. Lack of maternal empathy has also been related to child behavioral problems. As ELM, BPD, and MDD often co-occur, we aimed to identify dissociable effects on empathy due to these three factors. In addition, we aimed to investigate their indirect effects via empathy on child psychopathology. We included 251 mothers with and without MDD (in remission), BPD and ELM and their children, aged 5-12. We used the Interpersonal Reactivity Index as a measure of empathy

Tracing Effects of Parental Discipline on Child Psychopathology: The Devil's in the Detail. Parenting practices are a key target for researchers, clinicians, and policymakers concerned with decreasing child psychopathology. Parents' approaches to disciplining their children are of particular interest, because the form and amount of parental discipline are believed to play a critical role in the development of children's problem behavior. However, the relative merits of different discipline strategies for modifying children's mental health are not all that clear. In the current issue of the Journal, Rajyaguru et al. address this question by investigating associations between different parental discipline approaches and child psychopathology in more than 4,000 mother and child study members

Elective caesarean section on maternal request prior to 39 gestational weeks and childhood psychopathology: a birth cohort study in China. The recommendation of non-indicated caesarean section (CS) after 39 gestational weeks has been announced based on evidence of maternal and infant physiological effects. The potential psychological risks have not been acknowledged. This study aims

Offspring Personality Mediates the Association between Maternal Depression and Childhood Psychopathology. Offspring of mothers diagnosed with major depression are at increased risk for a wide range of psychological problems. Previous research has shown that individual differences in personality development can be informative for predicting risk and resilience to psychopathology, especially within

Coping in context: The effects of long-term relations between interparental conflict and coping on the development of child psychopathology following parental divorce. Exposure to high levels of postdivorce interparental conflict is a well-documented risk factor for the development of psychopathology, and there is strong evidence of a subpopulation of families for which conflict persists for many

Maternal depression impacts child psychopathology across the first decade of life: Oxytocin and synchrony as markers of resilience. While maternal depression is known to carry long-term negative consequences for offspring, very few studies followed children longitudinally to address markers of resilience in the context of maternal depression. We focused on oxytocin (OT) and mother-child for maternal sensitivity, child social engagement, and mother-child synchrony, children's OT assayed, and externalizing and internalizing problems reported. Exposure to maternal depression markedly increased child propensity to develop Axis-I disorder at 6 and 10 years. Child OT showed main effects for both maternal depression and child psychiatric disorder at 6 and 10 years, with maternal or child

Fathers, fathering and child psychopathology Fathers, fathering and child psychopathologyMenu * * Take your event #BeyondTheRoom * Training * #ElfHelp * Contact us * NewsSearch National Elf Service No bias. No misinformation. No spin. Just what you need! The Mental Elf * Home * About * Categories * Cost effectivenessEvaluation and impact assessmentFinancial managementFinancial a particularly important issue: how fathers and fathering may shape the development of child psychopathology. Child mental health problems are common, but their aetiology is poorly understood. Researching the influence of fathers and fathering on child psychopathology may be one path through which we can achieve a greater understanding of child mental health.What impact do fathers have on the mental wellness

Association between maternal childhood trauma and offspring childhood psychopathology: mediation analysis from the ALSPAC cohort. Studies have shown that a mother's history of childhood maltreatment is associated with her child's experience of internalising and externalising difficulties.To characterise the mediating pathways that underpin this association.Data on a mother's history of childhood