Editorial: From risk prediction to action: leveraging electronic health records to improve pediatric population mental health

The identification of child, family, and other environmental factors that confer risk for poor developmental outcomes has long been a major theme in child and adolescent psychopathology research. Over the past 6 decades, the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry has seen an exponential increase in articles that have included the search term ‘risk prediction’, with 17 such works appearing in the 1960s and 930 occurring in the 2010s....