The Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (The JCACAP) is the official journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. This open-access journal has no submission fees and no publication fees. Publishing 4 issues a year, The JCACAP contains original, previously unpublished, peer-reviewed scientific articles related to all aspects of child and adolescent psychiatry. The JCACAP is indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Scopus.
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Current Issue – Volume 30, Number 2, May 2021
EDITORIAL
Paying Attention to the Measures Used in Psychiatric Research and Services
John D. McLennan
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Study of Functional Impairment in Students of Elementary and Secondary Public Schools in Iran
Habib Hadianfard, Behnaz Kiani, Margaret D. Weiss
Reliability and Concurrent Validity of the GAIN Short Screener Among Youth Utilizing Integrated Health Services
Raymond Khanano, Skye Barbic, Joanna Henderson, Steve Mathias, Christopher G. Richardson
Characteristics and Service Needs of Maltreated Children Referred for Mental Health Services at a Child Advocacy Centre in Canada
Nicole Racine, Gina Dimitropoulos, Cailey Hartwick, Rachel Eirich, Logan van Roessel, Sheri Madigan
Cohort Profile: Multimorbidity in Children and Youth Across the Life-course (MY LIFE) Study
Mark A Ferro, Ellen L Lipman, Ryan J Van Lieshout, Brian Timmons, Lilly Shanahan, Jan Willem Gorter, Kathy Georgiades, Michael Boyle
COMMENTARY
Headspace, an Australian Youth Mental Health Network: Lessons for Canadian Mental Healthcare
Jeffrey C.L. Looi, Stephen Allison, Tarun Bastiampillai, Stephen R. Kisely
Recommendations for youth engagement in Canadian mental health research in the context of COVID-19
Brooke Allemang, Olivia Cullen, Kyleigh Schraeder, Karina Pintson, Gina Dimitropoulos
What’s race got to do with it? A proposed framework to address racism’s impacts on child and adolescentmental health in Canada
Amy Gajaria, Jaswant Guzder, Raj Rasasingham
RECOMMENDED ACADEMIC READING
Early Psychosis
Donald Addington, Christopher R. Bowie, Chiachen Cheng, Ashok Malla, Aristotle Voineskos
ARTS & LITERATURE AND NATURE (ALAN)
Ashley Pauls, John McLennan, Peter Braunberger
UPDATE FROM CACAP EXECUTIVE
Fostering community through advocacy, education and collaboration
Dr. Jordan Cohen
Promouvoir la communauté par la plaidoirie, l’éducation et la collaboration
Dr Jordan Cohen
Editor-in-Chief
John D. McLennan, MD, MPH, PhD, FRCPC
Clinician Investigator & Clinical Associate Professor
Departments of Psychiatry & Community Health Sciences
Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education
Cumming School of Medicine
University of Calgary
Associate Editors
Brendan Andrade, PhD., C.Psych.
Clinician-Scientist
Child, Youth and Emerging Adult Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth and Family Mental Health
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Peter Braunberger, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor, Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Staff Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
St. Joseph’s Care Group
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
Liaison with rural and remote communities, Tele-mental Health,
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Gina Dimitropoulos MSW, PhD., RSW, RMFT
Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work
Cross appointed to the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research
University of Calgary
Dean Elbe BSc(Pharm), PharmD, BCPP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, BC Children’s Hospital
Clinical Instructor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia
Associate Member, Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Dr. Elbe is also the Head of the Psychopharmacology Section of the JCACAP
John D. Haltigan, MA, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto
Research Scientist, Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative Centre for Addiction and Mental Health & Hospital for Sick Children
Editorial Assistant
Vicki Simmons, BA, MEd
Victoria, BC
For general information on the journal, email Vicki at VSimmons@shaw.ca.
Editorial Board Members
Paul Arnold, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Alberta Innovates Health Solutions (AIHS) Translational Health Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health Professor, Departments of Psychiatry & Medical Genetics
Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Kathryn Bennett, PhD
Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact
McMaster University
Member, Offord Centre for Child Studies
Khrista Boylan, MD, FRCPC, PhD
Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
Associate Professor, Offord Centre for Child Studies
McMaster Children’s Hospital
Alice Charach, MD, MSc FRCPC
Staff Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital of Sick Children
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Kristin Cleverly, RN, PhD
CAMH Chair in Mental Health Nursing Research
Assistant Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Jennifer Crosbie, PhD., C.Psych.
Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital for Sick Children
Susan J. Bradley Health Clinician Scientist
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Joshua Fogel, PhD
Professor, Department of Business Management
Murray Koppelman School of Business
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Nathalie Gingras, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Professeure, Département de psychiatrie et de neurosciences
Faculté de médecine
Université Laval
Rebecca Haines-Saah, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences
Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Laurence Y. Katz, MD, FRCPC
Professor of Psychiatry & Section Head, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Medical Director, Child and Adolescent Mental Health,
Health Sciences Centre Site, Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba
Faye Mishna, PhD
The Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Chair in Child and Family
Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Department of Psychiatry
University of Toronto
Amanda S. Newton, BScN, PhD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta
Dorothy Reddy, MD, FRCPC
Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry
University of British Columbia
Nico Trocmé, MSW, PhD
Director of the School of Social Work and the Philip Fisher Chair in Social Work
School of Social Work, McGill University
Previous Editors-in-Chief
Khrista Boylan, MD, PhD, FRCPC (2016-2019)
Abel Ickowicz, MD, FRCPC & Russell Schachar, MD, FRCPC (2013-2015)
Normand Carrey, MD, FRCPC (2008-2013)
Mary Kay Nixon, MD, FRCPC (2002-2008)(Founding Editor)