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Stephan Collishaw is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom, with a research focus primarily in the fields of Psychology and Medicine. Their work spans clinical psychology, health, toxicology, mutagenesis, public health, environmental and occupational health, and education. The main topics that characterize their research include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, health environment and cognitive aging, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, health disparities and outcomes, early childhood education and development, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and birth, development, and health.

Collishaw's recent publications illustrate these focal areas. Notable papers include:

  • Understanding why the COVID-19 pandemic-related lockdown increases mental health difficulties in vulnerable young children, 2021, JCPP Advances
  • The antecedents and outcomes of persistent and remitting adolescent depressive symptom trajectories: a longitudinal, population-based English study, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Validation of the short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire in young adulthood, 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Cross-cohort change in parent-reported emotional problem trajectories across childhood and adolescence in the UK, 2023, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Variable Emergence of Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms From Childhood to Early Adulthood, 2021, American Journal of Psychiatry

These publications are distributed across high-impact journals such as the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, JCPP Advances, The Lancet Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and the Journal of Affective Disorders, where Collishaw has multiple contributions.

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Anita Thapar
  • Frances Rice
  • Lucy Riglin
  • K. Langley
  • J. M. Armitage

Collishaw's research often intersects with broad issues in child and adolescent development, mental health trajectories throughout early life stages, and the influences of environmental and social factors on health outcomes. The mix of clinical psychology and public health expertise supports a multidisciplinary approach in their investigations.

Best Publications

  • Depression in adolescence

    Anita Thapar;Stephan Collishaw;Daniel S. Pine;Ajay Kumar Thapar

  • Resilience to adult psychopathology following childhood maltreatment: Evidence from a community sample

    Stephan Collishaw;Andrew Pickles;Julie Messer;Michael Rutter

  • Time trends in adolescent mental health.

    Stephan Collishaw;Barbara Maughan;Robert Goodman;Andrew Pickles

  • Child Abuse and Neglect in the UK Today

    Lorraine Radford;Susana Corral;Christine Bradley;Helen Fisher

  • Annual Research Review: Secular trends in child and adolescent mental health

    Stephan Collishaw

  • Trends in adolescent emotional problems in England: a comparison of two national cohorts twenty years apart.

    Stephan Collishaw;Barbara Maughan;Lucy Natarajan;Andrew Pickles

  • Depression in childhood and adolescence.

    Barbara Maughan;Stephan Collishaw;Argyris Stringaris

  • Featural and configurational processes in the recognition of faces of different familiarity

    Stephan M Collishaw;Graham J Hole

  • Validity of the Malaise Inventory in general population samples.

    B. Rodgers;A. Pickles;C. Power;Stephan Collishaw

  • The ‘DAWBA bands’ as an ordered-categorical measure of child mental health: description and validation in British and Norwegian samples

    Anna Goodman;Einar Heiervang;Stephan Collishaw;Robert Goodman

  • Mental health resilience in the adolescent offspring of parents with depression: a prospective longitudinal study

    Stephan Collishaw;Gemma Hammerton;Liam Mahedy;Ruth Sellers;Ruth Sellers

  • Predictors of suicidality across the life span: the Isle of Wight study.

    A. Pickles;A. Aglan;Stephan Collishaw;J. Messer

  • How far are associations between child, family and community factors and child psychopathology informant-specific and informant-general?

    Stephan Collishaw;Robert Goodman;Tamsin Ford;Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

  • Persistence of literacy problems: spelling in adolescence and at mid-life

    Barbara Maughan;J Messer;Stephan Collishaw;A Pickles

  • Maternal childhood abuse and offspring adjustment over time

    Stephan Collishaw;Judy Dunn;Thomas G. O'Connor;Jean Golding

  • Association of Genetic Risk Variants With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Trajectories in the General Population

    Lucy Riglin;Stephan Collishaw;Ajay K. Thapar;Søren Dalsgaard

  • Schizophrenia risk alleles and neurodevelopmental outcomes in childhood: a population-based cohort study

    Lucy Riglin;Stephan Collishaw;Alexander Richards;Ajay Thapar

  • Investigating environmental links between parent depression and child depressive/anxiety symptoms using an assisted conception design.

    Gemma Lewis;Frances Rice;Gordon Thomas Harold;Stephan Collishaw

  • Role of Featural and Configural Information in Familiar and Unfamiliar Face Recognition

    Adrian Schwaninger;Janek S. Lobmaier;Stephan M. Collishaw

  • A prospective study of childhood psychopathology: independent predictors of change over three years.

    Tamsin Ford;Stephan Collishaw;Howard Meltzer;Robert Goodman

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara Maughan
Barbara Maughan King's College London
Frances Rice
Frances Rice Cardiff University
Lucy Riglin
Lucy Riglin Cardiff University
Gordon Thomas Harold
Gordon Thomas Harold University of Cambridge
Andrew Pickles
Andrew Pickles King's College London
Michael Conlon O'Donovan
Michael Conlon O'Donovan Cardiff University
Nicholas John Craddock
Nicholas John Craddock Cardiff University
Frances Gardner
Frances Gardner University of Oxford
Argyris Stringaris
Argyris Stringaris National Institutes of Health
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health

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