ReviewClinical child and family psychology review2023
Interventions for Young Children's Mental Health: A Review of Reviews.
Review in Clinical child and family psychology review, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- Universal interventions to improve young children's mental well-being: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological bulletin · 2026Pooled it
- Updates on digital mental health interventions for children and young people: systematic overview of reviews.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- What is fidelity? A systematic review of provider fidelity and its associations with engagement and outcomes in parenting programs.Clinical psychology review · 2025Pooled it
- ¿Está disponible en español? A Systematic Review of Preventive Parenting Interventions Delivered in a Language Other Than English in the United States.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Pooled it
- "All Children in Focus": Effects of a Universal Parenting Program at a 6-Month Follow-Up in a Randomized Controlled Trial in Sweden.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Trial
- Practitioners' Use and Acceptability of Time-Out.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Transdiagnostic child mental health trajectories in Japan: protocol for a nationwide web‑based open cohort study.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Where are all the Services: Mapping Community-Based Services for Canadian Autistic Youth with Co-occurring Mental Health Conditions.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- School entry health examinations by school nurses for early detection of psychiatric disorders: a prospective cohort study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of a video-feedback intervention based on the SPIRE happiness model for promoting family parenting among preschool migrant children: a pilot randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Creative expressive therapy in schools to address childhood trauma: a mixed methods study of a whole school trauma-informed approach.Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children With Emotion Dysregulation.Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026Article
- Psychologists' Perspectives on Behavioral Versus Attachment- and Emotion-Focused Parenting Interventions.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Mental health of children in high-altitude regions: a bibliometric study and visualization analysis from 1979 to 2024.Annals of general psychiatry · 2025Article
- Healthy Lifestyle Matters: A Network Analysis of Urban Chinese Pre-School Children's Adiposity, Sleep Health, Mental Health, Child Functioning and Health Behaviours.Child: care, health and development · 2025Article
- Rural Community-Based Interventions to Improve the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People: A Rapid Scoping Review of the Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence.Journal of community psychology · 2025Article
- Pediatric Applications of Digital Therapeutics: Clinical Evidence and Implementation Landscape.Cureus · 2025Review
- Understanding Selective Mutism in Very Young Children.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The impact of universal mental health screening on stigma in primary schools.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
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12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
To determine the efficacy of intervention programs for young children (4-9 years) with emerging mental health needs, we conducted a review of meta-analytic and systematic reviews of the intervention literature. Of 41,061 abstracts identified and 15,076 screened, 152 review articles met the inclusion criteria. We reviewed interventions across multiple disciplines targeting: (1) general mental health concerns; (2) internalizing symptoms; (3) externalizing symptoms; (4) anxiety; (5) depression; (6) trauma; (7) symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; and (8) mental health concerns associated with autism spectrum disorder. Substantial evidence was found for the efficacy of behavioral and cognitive behavioral interventions for general mental health concerns, externalizing symptoms (generally, as well as ADHD, conduct, and other behavioral symptoms) and internalizing symptoms (generally, as well as anxiety) aged 4-9 years. Emerging evidence was identified for interventions targeting trauma symptoms, depression symptoms, and social, emotional and behavioral symptoms in autism spectrum disorder in children aged 4-9 years. Currently there is only limited emerging evidence regarding non-behavioral or non-cognitive behavioral interventions for programs targeting children ages 4-9 years where the aim is to deliver an evidence-based program to improve child social, emotional and/or behavioral functioning. Given the recent rises in mental health needs reported in children, targeted behavioral-and/or cognitive behavior therapy-based interventions should be made widely available to children (and their families) who experience elevated symptoms.
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