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Detecting suicidality among adolescent outpatients: evaluation of trained clinicians' suicidality assessment against a structured diagnostic assessment made by trained ratersMatti Mikael Holi
Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
BMC Psychiatry 8:97. 2008..Accurate assessment of suicidality is of major importance. We aimed to evaluate trained clinicians' ability to assess suicidality against a structured assessment made by trained raters...- Improvement in cognitive and psychosocial functioning and self image among adolescent inpatient suicide attemptersUlla Hintikka
University of Kuopio and Kuopio University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Kuopio, Finland
BMC Psychiatry 6:58. 2006..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).. - Psychometric properties and clinical utility of the Scale for Suicidal Ideation (SSI) in adolescentsMatti M Holi
Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
BMC Psychiatry 5:8. 2005..The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability and validity, and to test an appropriate cutoff threshold for the SSI in a depressed adolescent outpatient population and controls... 
Adolescent adjustment disorder: precipitant stressors and distress symptoms of 89 outpatientsMirjami Pelkonen
National Public Health Institute, Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, Helsinki, Finland
Eur Psychiatry 22:288-95. 2007..Furthermore, we explored precipitant stressors, distress symptoms and behavioral problems among males and females with AD...- Adolescent outpatients with depressive disorders: clinical characteristics and treatment receivedMirjami Pelkonen
Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Nord J Psychiatry 59:127-33. 2005..Adolescents with different diagnoses of depression have specific psychosocial impairments that have to be taken into account in developing psychiatric treatments for them... - Suicidality in adjustment disorder--clinical characteristics of adolescent outpatientsMirjami Pelkonen
Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, National Public Health Institute, Mannerheimintie 166, 00300 Helsinki, Finland
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 14:174-80. 2005..We examined background, psychopathology and treatment-related factors among suicidal adolescent AD outpatients... - Factors associated with early dropout from adolescent psychiatric outpatient treatmentM Pelkonen
Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 39:329-36. 2000..To examine background factors, psychopathology, and psychosocial impairment among adolescents complying with or dropping out early from outpatient psychiatric treatment... - Risk for depression: a 6-year follow-up of Finnish adolescentsMirjami Pelkonen
Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, National Public Health Institute, Mannerheimintie 166, FIN 00300 Helsinki, Finland
J Affect Disord 77:41-51. 2003..Mid-adolescence is a critical developmental phase for studying vulnerability to depression due to high incidence and prevalence of depression... - Child and adolescent suicide: epidemiology, risk factors, and approaches to preventionMirjami Pelkonen
Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Paediatr Drugs 5:243-65. 2003..Developing efficacious treatments for suicidal children and adolescents would offer better possibilities to prevent suicides... - Psychometric properties of the defense style questionnaire (DSQ-40) in adolescentsTitta Ruuttu
Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
J Nerv Ment Dis 194:98-105. 2006..The DSQ-40 appears to be a reliable and valid instrument for adolescents... - Differences in the clinical characteristics of adolescent depressive disordersLinnea Karlsson
The National Public Health Institute, Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, Helsinki, Finland
Depress Anxiety 24:421-32. 2007..Identification of bipolarity and the subgroup with DD seems especially warranted. First episode MDD should be considered as severe a disorder as recurring MDD... - Current comorbidity among consecutive adolescent psychiatric outpatients with DSM-IV mood disordersLinnea Karlsson
The National Public Health Institute, Dept of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, Helsinki, Finland
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 15:220-31. 2006..To compare selected characteristics (age, sex, age of onset for depression, impairment, severity of depression, somatic comorbidity, and treatment status) of adolescents with currently comorbid and non-comorbid depression... - Suicidal ideation, deliberate self-harm behaviour and suicide attempts among adolescent outpatients with depressive mood disorders and comorbid axis I disordersVirpi Tuisku
Dept of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, National Public Health Institute, Mannerheimintie 166, 00300 Helsinki, Finland
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 15:199-206. 2006.... 
Adolescent risk factors for excessive alcohol use at age 32 years. A 16-year prospective follow-up studyTaina Huurre
Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P O Box 30, 00271, Helsinki, Finland
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 45:125-34. 2010..To examine which socioeconomic, family, personal and lifestyle risk factors in adolescence were the strongest independent predictors of excessive alcohol use in adulthood...- Factors associated with deliberate self-harm behaviour among depressed adolescent outpatientsVirpi Tuisku
National Public Health Institute, Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, Mannerheimintie 166, FIN 00300 Helsinki
J Adolesc 32:1125-36. 2009..Adolescents with severe internalizing distress symptoms are at risk not only for DSH, but also additional suicidal behaviour. Family interventions may be needed in the treatment of depressed adolescents with DSH... - Adolescent risk factors for episodic and persistent depression in adulthood. A 16-year prospective follow-up study of adolescentsMirjami Pelkonen
National Public Health Institute, Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, Mannerheimintie 166, FIN 00300 Helsinki, Finland
J Affect Disord 106:123-31. 2008..We examined mid-adolescent psychosocial problems as risk factors for subsequent depression up to adulthood proper, and differences in these for episodic and persistent depression... - One-year course and predictors of outcome of adolescent depression: a case-control study in FinlandLinnea Karlsson
Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
J Clin Psychiatry 69:844-53. 2008..Clinical studies on the outcome of adolescent depression beyond treatment trials are scarce... - Brief Report: Excessive alcohol use negatively affects the course of adolescent depression: one year naturalistic follow-up studyEsa Meririnne
National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
J Adolesc 33:221-6. 2010..Weekly drunkenness seems to be of predictive value and this can be examined with a few simple questions. Means of reducing alcohol consumption among depressed adolescents are worth further investigations... - Age and gender differences in social anxiety symptoms during adolescence: the Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) as a measureKlaus Ranta
School of Public Health, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
Psychiatry Res 153:261-70. 2007..Some support was gained for both factor structures. Our results indicate that symptoms of social phobia may increase in mid-adolescence. The SPIN appears to be a reliable self-report instrument among adolescents... - Continuity, comorbidity and longitudinal associations between depression and antisocial behaviour in middle adolescence: a 2-year prospective follow-up studyMinna Ritakallio
University of Tampere, Tampere School of Public Health, Tampere, Finland
J Adolesc 31:355-70. 2008..Among boys history of depression seemed to protect from subsequent antisocial behaviour. Gender differences in longitudinal associations are discussed... - Perceived financial difficulties and maladjustment outcomes in adolescenceSari Fröjd
Tampere School of Public Health, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
Eur J Public Health 16:542-8. 2006..The present study aimed to find out whether there is an association between adolescent perceived financial difficulties of the family and adolescent maladjustment, and to explore the possible sex differences in this association... - Adult and peer involvement in help-seeking for depression in adolescent population: a two-year follow-up in FinlandSari Fröjd
Tampere School of Public Health, University of Tampere, Tampere, 33014, Finland
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 42:945-52. 2007.... - Clinical recovery in cognitive functioning and self-image among adolescents with major depressive disorder and conduct disorder during psychiatric inpatient careUlla Hintikka
Department of Psychiatry, Kuopio University Hospital, Finland
Am J Orthopsychiatry 73:212-22. 2003..Mental health services should still have the capability of offering long-term residential care for adolescents with the most severe mental disturbance... - [How to prevent conduct disorders in adolescents?]Minna Ritakallio
TAYS n nuorisopsykiatrian klinikka 33380 Pitkäniemi
Duodecim 119:1752-60. 2003