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.

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Department of Allied Health Professionals, Midwifery and Social Work, School of Health and Social Wo, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
Interests: qualitative research; mixed methods research, ethics, cultural and ethnicity issues; child protection; mental health; trauma-informed services; adolescents; youth offending; interpersonal violence
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Child Neurology and Psychiatry Unit, System Medicine Department, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Interests: autism; child development; ADHD; developmental disabilities; neurodevelopmental disorders; early childhood education
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Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University/IWK Health Centre, 5850 University Ave., Halifax, NS B3K 6R8, Canada
Interests: children’s health; caregiver well-being; PTSD in children and caregivers

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1. Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
2. Pediatric Chronic Pain Program, McMaster Children's Hospital, Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z53, Canada
Interests: pediatric pain (acute, chronic); medical procedure related fear; pediatric psychology; family influences on children's pain; evidence-based assessment and treatment of pediatric procedural pain and needle fear


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Adelson School of Medicine, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel
Interests: the intersection of neuropsychiatric disorders (ADHD, dementia, depression); various chronic somatic; infectious diseases

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Mailman Center for Child Development, Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA
Interests: child development; behavioral health issues; infant mental health; obesity prevention

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1. University Research Center in Psychology (CUIP), 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
2. Department of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Interests: at-risk family context assessment; family preservation; positive parenting; evidence-based interventions; well-being in children and adolescence
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Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
Interests: socio-emotional abilities; typical and atypical development; autism spectrum disorder
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Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Federico II University, 80138 Naples, Italy
Interests: child and adolescent psychopharmacology and psychophatology

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Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Interests: parenting behaviors; mothers’ adverse childhood experiences; patterns of insecure attachment
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Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
Interests: psychological assessment; personality assessment; psychopathology; mental illness; counseling; clinical assessment; treatment; psychotherapeutic processes; psychoeducation; psychological testing
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School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
Interests: psychology; childhood adversity; psychotic disorders

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Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Interests: child care; child development; adolescent health

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Penn Center for Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Interests: mental health; clinical psychology; racism; classism; sexism; transphobia; community-engaged

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William James Center for Research, ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: social development; peer relations; developmental psychology

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Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, TX 77030, USA
Interests: ADHD; bipolar disorder in children and adolescents; pediatric psychopharmacology; mood disorders

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School of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
Interests: educational psychology; clinical psychology; cognition; child development; psychology of adolescence; psychological assessment
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William James Center for Research, ISPA–Instituto Universitário, 1149-089 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: quality of attachment during infancy and childhood; social and emotional development; father/child interaction and relationship; child obesity and sleep
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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: pain management; intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment; psychological flexibility; parenting and family functioning for youth affected by medical conditions

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Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Interests: child and adolescent psychiatry
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1. Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
2. Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
3. Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Interests: pediatric behavior and development

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Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders, Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, TX, USA
Interests: attention deficit disorders; genetics; neuropsychology; neuroimaging; mood disorders; psychopharmacology; ADHD/ADD; autism; pediatric bipolar disorder; child general psychiatry; pediatric depression; pediatric second opinion
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