Selected Publications

Aitken, M., Sagar, A., Courtney, D., & Szatmari, P. (2023). Development and preliminary effectiveness of a group intervention to improve parent-adolescent relationships in the context of adolescent depression, JCPP Advances, Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12168

Aitken, M., Perquier, F., Haltigan, J. D., Wang, L., Andrade, B. F., Battaglia, M., Szatmari, P., & Georgiades, K. (2023). Individual- and family-level associations between child psychopathology and parenting, Development and Psychopathology, Advance Online Publication doi.org/10.1017/S0954579423000202

Andrade, B. F., Aitken, M., Sawrikar, V., & Brodkin, S.* (2022). Multiple needs and multiple treatments: What’s a clinician to do? Update on the psychosocial treatment of disruptive behaviours in childhood (invited manuscript), Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 35(6), 409-416. doi.org/10.1097/YCO.0000000000000823

Krause, K. R.*, Courtney, D. B., Chan, B., Bonato, S., Relihan, J., Prebeg, M.,

Darnay, K., Aitken, M., Hawke, L. D., Watson, P., & Szatmari, P. (2021).

Problem-solving training as an active ingredient of treatment for youth depression: A scoping review and exploratory meta-analysis. BMC Psychiatry, 21, 397. doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03260-9

Aitken, M., & Andrade, B. F. (2021). Attention problems and restlessness as transdiagnostic markers of severity and treatment response in youth with internalizing problems, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 49, 1069–1082. doi.org/10.1007/s10802-021-00797-x

Haltigan, J. D., Olino, T. M., Aitken, M., & Andrade, B. F. (2020). The value of a dimensional nosology of psychiatric illness: current progress and new research. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 29(4), 253-255. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7595255

Aitken, M., Haltigan, J. D., Szatmari, P., Dubicka, B., Fonagy, P., Kelvin, R., Midgley, N., Reynolds, S., Wilkinson, P.O., & Goodyer, I. M. (2020). Toward precision therapeutics: General and specific factors differentiate symptom change in depressed adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61(9), 998-1008. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13194

Ngo, H.*, VanderLaan, D. P., & Aitken, M. (2020). Self-esteem, symptom severity, and treatment response in adolescents with internalizing problems. Journal of Affective Disorders, 273, 183-191. doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.04.045

Aitken, M., Battaglia, M., Marino, C., Mahendran, N.*, & Andrade, B. F. (2019). Clinical utility of the CBCL dysregulation profile in children with disruptive behavior. Journal of Affective Disorders, 253, 87-95. doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.04.034

Haltigan, J. D., Aitken, M., Skilling, T., Henderson, J., Hawke, L., Battaglia, M., Strauss, J., Szatmari, P., & Andrade, B. F. (2018). “P” and “DP”: examining symptom-level bifactor models of psychopathology in clinically referred children and adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 57(6), 384-396. doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2018.03.010

Aitken, M., Waxman, J. A.*, MacDonald, K., & Andrade, B. F. (2018). Effect of comorbid psychopathology and conduct problem severity on response to a multicomponent intervention for childhood disruptive behavior. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 49(6), 853-864. doi.org/10.1007/s10578-018-0800-1