Editorial Board for section 'Pediatric Mental Health'

Please see the section webpage for more information on this section.

Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Interests: strengthening family-focused mental health services; addressing disparities; mental health services; intervention development and evaluation; parent peer support
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Department of Social, Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
Interests: developmental and educational psychology
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The Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Interests: stress; PTSD; psychology

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1. Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
2. College of Arts, Sciences & Education, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Interests: child and youth mental health
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Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Modena, via Campi 287, 41125 Modena, Italy
Interests: neurodevelopmental disorders; children and adolescents with chronic pain and chronic or severe medical conditions; trauma in infants and toddlers; trauma informed care; psychosocial aspects; behavioral and cognitive outcomes; integration of digital health in surveillance and long-term follow-up of symptoms assessment and quality of life; network analysis as dynamic approach to symptom analysis; role of biomarkers in early detection and disease prevention; woman’s and child’s health

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Psychiatric Research Unit, Psychiatry Region Zealand, Slagelse, Denmark
Interests: personality disorder in children; psychotherapy in children
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Department of Psychiatry of the University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, 80138 Naples, Italy
Interests: neuropsychological correlates of main psychiatric disorders; biological correlates of negative symptoms of schizophrenia; cognitive remediation in schizophrenia; factors influencing schizophrenia real-life functioning

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Department of Educational, Psychological and Communication Sciences, Suor Orsola Benincasa University, 80120 Naples, Italy
Interests: childhood bullying; psychosis; epidemiology; developmental mental health; eating disorders in childhood

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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Society and Communication Sciences, Universitas Mercatorum—University of Italian Chambers of Commerce, Piazza Mattei, 10, 00186 Rome, Italy
Interests: social and emotional learning; school mental health; teachers' training

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Department of Psychology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Interests: adolescent development; child development; psychology of adolescence; school psychology; longitudinal studies

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Child & Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, University of Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Interests: anxiety disorders; depressive disorders; assessment tools in neuropsychiatry

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Division of Developmental & Behavioral Health, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
Interests: pediatric psychology; pain; migraine and headache; digital health; health psychology/behavioral medicine; nonpharmacological therapies; adjustment to chronic illness
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Department of Social Sciences, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Nicosia, 2417 Nicosia, Cyprus
Interests: clinical and forensic pediatric neuropsychology; pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders

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Department of Family Medicine, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
Interests: pediatric psychology; pain; anxiety; cognitive behavioral therapy
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3C Institute, Durham, NC, USA
Interests: child development; developmental psychopathology

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Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd., Galveston, Texas 77555-0188, USA
Interests: childhood psychiatric disorders

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Center for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, Psychiatric Research Unit, Psychiatry Region Zealand, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark
Interests: neuropsychiatry; evidence based medicine; children and adolescent psychiatry; neuropathophysiology

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Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Via Verdi 10, Torino, Italy
Interests: adolescent mental health; attachment; sexual behaviors; aggressive behaviors; PTSD; bullying and cyberbullying; student–teacher relationships; school psychology; child abuse and neglect
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Faculty of Psychology, University of Oviedo, 33003 Oviedo, Spain
Interests: methodology of the behavioral sciences; body image and adolescence; parenting and co-parenting; learning difficulties; mild cognitive Impairment; clinical psychology
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School of Psychology, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
Interests: positive development; adolescence; well-being; clinical and developmental approaches; psychological intervention; sychotherapeutic processes; cognitive behavioral therapy; social psychology; clinical psychology; adolescent development; psychological resilience; psychology of adolescence

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Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
Interests: chronic pain; parental responses to pediatric pain; medical education; pediatric psychology; psychiatry

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1. Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
2. Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Interests: obsessive-compulsive disorder; children and adolescents; neuropsychology; cognitive behaviour therapy

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Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #311280, Denton, TX 76203-5017, USA
Interests: childhood maltreatment; resilience; family relationship quality (especially attachment relationships between parents and children, siblings, & custodial grandparents and their grandchildren); caregiver-child relationships; complex PTSD & PTSD; body image; disordered eating; ADHD; giftedness and learning differences; coping; intersectionality; minority stress; shame; self-compassion; sexual and gender minorities; multi-dimensional self-concept; relational child therapy; child-centered play therapy; parent therapy; parent-child interaction assessment; parent training; family therapy; psychological assessment across the lifespan

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Department of Educational Sciences, University of Catania, 95100 Catania, Italy
Interests: developmental psychology; educational psychology; life cycle psychology; development in adolescence; attachment relationships; family; learning and quality of educational settings
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Faculty of Nursing and Cumming School of Medicine (Pediatrics, Psychiatry & Community Health Sciences), University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Interests: parent–infant/child relationships; perinatal mental health; infant mental health; vulnerable children; parent–child interventions; social support; domestic abuse; toxic stress; adverse childhood experiences; child development and health; biological sensitivity; genetics; epigenetics
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1. The Emili Sagol Research Center for Creative Arts Therapies, Faculty of Social and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
2. The Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Treatment and Research, Shamir Medical Center, Beer Yaakov, Israel
3. Department of Social Work, Tel Hai Academic College, Kiryat Shmona, Israel
Interests: child abuse; sexual abuse; physical abuse; emotional abuse; self-figure drawing

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Tel-Hai College, Shamir Research Institute, University of Haifa, 1220800 Upper Galilee, Israel
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Mental Health; Applied Artificial Intelligence; Large Language Models; Stress; Health
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School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Interests: autism; ADHD; suicide; gene; emotion regulation
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Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Interests: epilepsy; infants; neuropsychologie; child development; cognitive neuroscience; neuroimaging; brain and learning; pathological development; acquired lesions; developmental lesions
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