OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to define the long-term psychiatric outcomes of adolescent internalizing disorder in the general population, using data collected over 40 years from a national birth cohort. METHOD A total of 3,279 members of the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development (the 1946 British birth cohort) underwent assessments of psychiatric symptoms, ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate sex and informant effects on comorbidity rates for anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and conduct-oppositional disorder (CD-ODD) in an adolescent community sample. METHOD The Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children-2.25 (DISC-2.25) was administered to 1201 adolescents and their mothers. RESULTS The highest co...

Few studies report treatment outcome for early childhood internalizing disorders following psychotherapy, especially psychodynamic techniques. We aimed to investigate effectiveness of a novel, developmentally appropriate, short-term psychodynamic treatment program for 4to 10-year-olds with anxiety disorders in an outpatient setting. We conducted a quasi-experimental wait-list controlled study. ...

Children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) are at high risk for adjustment problems, especially internalizing disorders. Few evidence-based interventions are available to address internalizing behavior problems in this population. An efficacy trial compared outcomes for 4-6 year old children randomly assigned to a program designed to address the effects of exposure to IPV with those al...

OBJECTIVE The role of religion in mental illness remains understudied. Most prior investigations of this relationship have used measures of religiosity that do not reflect its complexity and/or have examined a small number of psychiatric outcomes. This study used data from a general population sample to clarify the dimensions of religiosity and the relationships of these dimensions to risk for ...

Compared 2 groups of children with anxiety disorders: those treated in a university-based research clinic (RC) and those treated in community-based service clinics (SCs). A widely endorsed goal in intervention research is to disseminate evidence-based treatments from RCs to SCs. Attaining this goal requires an understanding of the similarities and differences between clients in these 2 settings...

Internalizing disorders refer to a range of anxious and depressive behaviors in which individuals direct their feelings and emotions inward. Nearly 10% of children meet the diagnostic criteria for at least one internalizing disorder by age 16. Given that symptoms of depression and anxiety in childhood are predictors of a full diagnosis of depression or anxiety disorders in adulthood, it is impo...

Reward-related decision making was examined within a longitudinal study of 221 11-year-old boys, 50 of whom had current internalizing disorders. Participants completed a behavioral decision-making task involving varying probability and magnitude of obtaining reward. Concurrent internalizing but not externalizing diagnoses were related to reduced frequency of choosing the reward option with a la...

Objectives: Internalizing disorders include disorders, such as major depressive disorder, dysthymia, and somatic disorders. In the diagnostic statistical manual of mental 5th edition (DSM-5), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is recognized a distinct group, but anxiety common symptom. This study aimed to investigate effectiveness play therapy programs based on social cognition in children w...

BACKGROUND Although numerous studies have examined the role of latent predispositions to internalizing and externalizing disorders in the structure of comorbidity among common mental disorders, none examined latent predispositions in predicting development of comorbidity. METHODS A novel method was used to study the role of latent variables in the development of comorbidity among lifetime DSM...