Transdiagnostic Profiles of Behaviour and Communication: Academic and Socioemotional Functioning and Neural White Matter Organisation

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.24540
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Silvana Mareva discusses her JCPP paper ‘Transdiagnostic profiles of behaviour and communication relate to academic and socioemotional functioning and neural white matter organisation’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13685). Silvana is the first author of the paper.
There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include:

• An insight into CALM (the Centre for Attention, Learning, and Memory), including its aims and transdiagnostic approach.
• Co-morbidity as one of the main challenges to the current diagnostic system.
• The sub-groups identified through grouping children with similar behavioural profiles, irrespective of their diagnostic status.
• The importance of focusing on neural white matter organisation.
• Implications for child and adolescent mental health professionals and those working in education.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.