E R Laukkanen

..study compared characteristics and changes in cognitive functioning, self image and psychosocial functioning among 13 to 18 year-old adolescent psychiatric inpatients with suicide attempts (n = 16) and with no suicidality (n = 39)..

..The objective was to study factors associated with psychiatric diagnosis among adolescents (n = 164) seeking psychiatric care for mental symptoms...

..Because suicidal ideation frequently occurs without formal psychiatric diagnosis it should be assessed separately. Special attention should be paid to adolescents' negative self-perception...

..In addition to developing adequate resources, the quality of care should also be guaranteed by training and by competent long-term planning of psychiatric service systems...

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..To investigate social, psychological, and environmental factors related to heavy drinking by 15-year-old Finnish school pupils...

..The development of a vicious circle might be prevented through early intervention at school, by offering pupils guidance, counselling and treatment...

..Psychosomatic symptoms in adolescence might be important signals of mental health and this should be taken seriously in school health and in general primary care...

..13). The specific effects of MDD on the adolescents were restricted to the emotional area and were expressed as a broad deterioration in psychosocial functioning...

..In Finland, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health required all medical specialities to create a priority-rating tool for elective patients, preferably giving a numerical rating ranging 0-100, with 50 as an entry threshold...

..Self-mutilation should be raised by healthcare professionals and discussed in health promotion or in parents' meetings at schools...

..Our results are encouraging and indicate only minor neuropsychological consequences due to very preterm birth...

..In nursing practice and education, self-mutilation should be discussed based on existing knowledge to make nurses more familiar with it. Nurses should understand this phenomenon as a challenge for developing effective nursing practices...

..Deliberate self-harm has become more prevalent among adolescents...

..These results indicate that a high level of dissociation is an independent risk factor for self-harm behavior in adolescents, and may have value both in clinical work and further research...

..The purpose of this study is to describe help from the viewpoint of self-mutilating Finnish adolescents...

..Self-cutting as a form of self-harm is common in general population adolescents. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of mental disorders and associated factors among self-cutting community-dwelling adolescents...

..The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore parental views on how to help adolescents who self-mutilate...

..Thus, dissociation and alexithymia can be considered distinctive but overlapping phenomena...

..The results suggest a good outcome, measured by school grade scores at 16 years of age, of the subjects born very preterm...

..A high level of dissociation was associated with an age of 15 or less, daily smoking, frequent use of alcohol, abuse of legal drugs, cannabis use, social isolation, and poor school performance in mathematics...

..To improve an early intervention (EI) triggered by the Adolescents' Substance Use Measurement (ADSUME) as a method to prevent substance abuse among adolescents. We assessed how ADSUME and EI work in practice and how EI could be improved...

..Mental health services should still have the capability of offering long-term residential care for adolescents with the most severe mental disturbance...

..The aim of our study was to examine the role of brain activity related to orienting in distractibility...

..The aim of our study was to examine the role of brain activity related to stimulus evaluation processes in distractibility by analyzing the P3 event-related potential...

..Maternal education level was not associated with naming skills. Thus, the consequences of preterm birth seem to be minor in relation to linguistic skills during school age and diminish by adolescence...

..The aim of our study was to assess seizures in prematurely born children from birth up to 16 years and to evaluate the contribution of different seizures, and of neurological dysfunction to the seizure outcome...

..Multivariate analysis revealed that a better quality of working alliance and a greater number of therapy sessions were significantly associated with positive change in cognitive performance during treatment...

..Earlier studies have indicated associations between parental psychiatric problems, such as depression, and substance abuse and adolescent problems...

..Our findings indicate that these adolescents are at high risk of mental disorders and require treatment interventions...

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