Research in child and adolescent psychiatry: A multi-disciplinary, many-faceted endeavor

摘要

Recently, Sonuga-Barke [18] pondered on the spirit and purpose of editorials in child and adolescent psychiatry research. He described that editorials are typically inspired from the findings reported in a particular paper or a set of papers and their potential implications. Correspondingly, many previous editorials of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ECAP) found a 'golden thread' and presented a brief survey through the published findings. But for the current issue, such a 'linking theme' does not leap to the eye probably because the authors once again report about interesting and important studies using various methodological approaches and dealing with diverse topics of child and adolescent psychiatry. This reflects the multi-disciplinary, many-faceted nature of child and adolescent psychiatry at its best.