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Scientific Programmes
Mental Disorders of the Child and Adolescent
COORDINATOR: DRA. JOSEFINA CASTRO FORNIELES (G04 - Hospital Clínic de Barcelona)
The Child and Adolescent Mental Disorder pro- gramme was created in 2010 and is made up of five groups of the CIBERSAM (G01, G04, G07, G08, G24). The main aim of the programme is to study the men- tal disorders starting in childhood and adolescence.
In 2015 the objectives set in our strategic plan 2014- 2016 have been met. There have thus been 65 pub- lications connected with the mental health of chil- dren and adolescents with 215 points in the impact factor. Over 75% of these publications have been made in first quartile journals and almost one third of them are in the first decile. Some of the journals in which the main results of our programme have been published are: Schizophrenia Bulletin, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psy- chiatry, BMC Medicine, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, or Human Brain Mapping. The programme facilitates and strength- ens cooperation between the different groups and, thanks to this, over half are cooperative publications. There has also been an increase in the number of citations of our publications as compared with 2014, which infers an increase in the visibility of the results stemming from our programme.
As regards research projects, 32 projects with public and private funding are linked with the area of mental disorders of the child and adolescent, which are in- vestigated in all the lines in our programme: psychot- ic disorders, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism spectrum disorder, effectiveness and safety of psychotropic drugs and other treat- ments, development and validation of evaluation in- struments, study of immune alterations in different psychiatric disorders and behavioural disorders. We should also point out that throughout 2015 there has been an increase in the number of clinical guide- lines published addressing the child and adolescent population. Some more prominent ones of these are the ones concerning the treatment and handling of attention deficit disorder, psychotic disorders or per- sonality disorders.
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