JAACAP openDecember 1, 2025Tram N B Nguyen, Benjamin A Ely, Aria Vitale et al.
Youth with depression use cannabis at high rates, and exposure to cannabinoids in adolescence has been shown to deleteriously alter the reward system. However, there has been sparse research on the link between adolescent cannabis use and anhedonia, a core symptom of depression and clinical manifestation of reward dysfunction. Here, in a sample of adolescents presenting predominantly with mood...
Objective: To test the feasibility and effectiveness of a mindfulness-based intervention in rural-to-urban migrant Chinese children using trained community volunteers. Method: Migrant students ages 9 to 16 from 5 schools in Shanghai (N = 653) were randomly assigned to a mindfulness only group (n = 167), a mindfulness plus life skills group (n = 118), or a waitlist control group (n = 368). The...