European child & adolescent psychiatry

01 17 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s00787-026-03214-0

Mental health-related service contact amongst young people with a possible eating problem in the English national child mental health surveys

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Benjamin Geers, Helen Bould, Tamsin Ford et al.

Objective: To describe patterns of service contact among young people screening positive for possible eating problems and their characteristics. Methods: Secondary analysis of the Mental Health of Children and Young People in England 201...

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02 16 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s00787-026-03224-y

Childhood facial emotion recognition: Associations with the parental emotional environment and child emotional and behavioral problems

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Ellie Mae Dorrans, Stephanie H.M. van Goozen

Impairments in negative facial emotion recognition (FER) are widely reported in children with internalizing and externalizing problems; however, it remains unclear whether these impairments reflect response biases or reduced discriminati...

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03 16 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s00787-026-03208-y

Cluster-derived profiles of parental reports of Autism and ADHD traits and their associations with diagnoses: EPINED study

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Sharanpreet Kaur, Josefa Canals-Sans, Paula Morales-Hidalgo et al.

04 16 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s00787-026-03222-0

Child and adolescent psychiatry in need of a firmer evidence-base to support professionals in war-affected regions

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Marinus H. van Ijzendoorn, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg

05 16 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s00787-026-03218-w

Health equity considerations in youth social prescribing

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Claire Sitz, Aarya Ghonasgi

06 16 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s00787-026-03201-5

Psychiatric and substance use disorder polygenic scores are associated with the exposome in youth

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I.-Tzu Hung, Nathaniel S. Thomas, David W. Sosnowski et al.

Gene-environment correlations (rGE) present challenges for accurately estimating the individual and joint contributions of genetic and environmental influences on risk for psychiatric and substance use disorders. The present study examin...

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07 14 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s00787-026-03154-9

Impaired visual-motor integration function in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: potential neural correlates from resting-state fNIRS

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Wenchen Wang, Hong Qian, Min Dong et al.

08 14 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s00787-026-03219-9

Context-dependent gaze patterns in children with social anxiety disorder during repeated peer-evaluative stress: A naturalistic eye-tracking study

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Nadine Vietmeier, Nik Dietze, Brunna Tuschen-Caffier et al.

Childhood social anxiety disorder (SAD) has been linked to altered attention to socially relevant cues, but findings on gaze behavior in youth remain mixed, particularly in naturalistic social-evaluative contexts. We examined whether chi...

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09 14 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s00787-026-03216-y

Understanding mental health and help-seeking among adolescents in Europe: a focus group-based participatory study to inform preventive interventions

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Gwendolyn Mayer, Nelli Tschobur, Aggeliki Michael et al.

Background: This multi-centre, qualitative study aimed to identify dimensions of mental health and possible determining factors of help-seeking among young people in Europe. Based on adolescent experiences, key risk factors for their men...

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10 14 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s00787-026-03213-1

Voice features in paediatric ADHD: baseline group differences and longitudinal change under methylphenidate

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Rachel Bamberger, Gianna Kuhles, Leon D. Lotter et al.

Diagnosis and treatment monitoring of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) largely rely on subjective assessments, highlighting the need for objective markers. Voice features and speech embeddings represent promising candidate...

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