Editorial: Women in psychiatry 2022: child and adolescent psychiatry.

the field. Five articles are included, each featuring women scientists as first or senior author.Three papers contribute to understanding some parental characteristics that promote improvement of symptom profile and well-being in children and adolescents with various neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders.In the study by Flores-Buils and Andrés-Roqueta "Factors influencing resilience of parents with children with neurodevelopmental disorders: The role of structural language, social cognition, and social support" the authors investigated the resilience of parents of children with different neurodevelopmental disorder (i.e. autism spectrum disorders (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, developmental language disorder), and examined which individual factors of the child and which contextual factors of the family support the parental resilience. The authors detected an inverse correlation between parental resilience and the severity of social cognition as well as structural language difficulties of children with ASD. Moreover, formal support from professionals and family association predicted the resilience of the parents of children with any type of NDD.