Mental health problems are the leading health problems that Canadian children currently
face after infancy. At any given time, 14% of children aged 4 to 17 years (over 800 000 in …

Importance Symptom severity and adaptive functioning are fundamental domains of the autism
spectrum disorder (ASD) phenotype. To date, the longitudinal association between these …

Epidemiological studies have characterized the high burden of suffering that child psychiatric
disorders cause—14% of children (1.1 million in Canada) have clinically important …

Objective: To critically assess the scientific evidence for associating creativity with mental
illness. Method: MEDLINE and secondary literature searches identified 29 studies and 34 …

This report summarizes recent high-quality research evidence—on the prevalence of the
major mental disorders affecting children and youth and on effective prevention and treatment …

Most research regarding youth with autism spectrum disorder has not focused on their first-person
perspectives providing limited insight into methodologies best suited to eliciting their …

Question Mental disorders typically start in childhood and persist, causing high individual
and collective burdens. To inform policymaking to address children’s mental health in high-…

Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by notable phenotypic
heterogeneity, which is often viewed as an obstacle to the study of its etiology, diagnosis, treatment…

Path analysis within a structural equation modeling framework was employed to examine
the relationships between two types of parent stress and children’s externalizing and …

This study examined the longitudinal associations between child behavior problems, coping
strategies, social resources, and parenting stress in mothers of young children with autism …