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Open AccessThe evaluation of a stepped care approach for early intervention of borderline personality disorder
The current study evaluated the stepped care approach applied in AtR!Sk; a specialized outpatient clinic for adolescents with BPD features that offers a brief psychotherapeutic intervention (Cutting Down Progr...
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Open AccessEffectiveness of home treatment in children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders—systematic review and meta-analysis
Home treatment in child and adolescent psychiatry offers an alternative to conventional inpatient treatment by involving the patient’s family, school, and peers more directly in therapy. Although several revie...
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Open AccessClinical profiles of adolescent personality pathology: a latent structure examination of the Semi-Structured Interview for Personality Functioning DSM-5 (STiP-5.1) in a help-seeking sample
Despite the introduction of dimensional conceptualisations of personality functioning in the latest classification systems, such as Criterion A of the Alternative Model of Personality Disorders in the DSM-5, hete...
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Open AccessDifferential outcomes of outpatient only versus combined inpatient/outpatient treatment in early intervention for adolescent borderline personality disorder
Clinical guidelines for adults with borderline personality disorder (BPD) recommend outpatient psychotherapy as first-line treatment. Little is known whether this recommendation is also applicable to adolescen...
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Open AccessDiurnal variation of cardiac autonomic activity in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury
Heart rate (HR) and vagally mediated heart rate variability (HRV) are two distinct biomarkers of cardiac autonomic activity. Decreased cardiac vagal activity (or decreased HRV) in particular has been linked wi...
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Open AccessPositive psychotic symptoms as a marker of clinical severity in a transdiagnostic sample of help-seeking adolescents
The present study aimed to examine the association between the presence, number, and type of positive psychotic symptoms (PPS) and clinical severity in adolescent patients. Five hundred-six patients aged 11–17...
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Open AccessHigher striatal glutamate in male youth with internet gaming disorder
Internet gaming disorder (IGD) was included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) as a research diagnosis, but little is known about its pathophysiology. Alterations in frontostr...
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Open AccessThe quest for a biological phenotype of adolescent non-suicidal self-injury: a machine-learning approach
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a transdiagnostic psychiatric symptom with high prevalence and relevance in child and adolescent psychiatry. Therefore, it is of great interest to identify a biological pheno...
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Open AccessChild temperament as a longitudinal predictor of mother–adolescent interaction quality: are effects independent of child and maternal mental health?
Adaptive parent–child interaction plays a major role in healthy child development. Caregiver mental health problems can negatively impact parent–child interaction. In turn, interactional quality is often studi...
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Open AccessRisk-taking and self-harm behaviors as markers of adolescent borderline personality disorder
Adolescence is a critical period for early identification and intervention of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Risk-taking and self-harm behaviors (RSB) have been identified as promising early markers of...
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Open AccessThe Bern Birth Cohort (BeBiCo) to study the development of the infant intestinal microbiota in a high-resource setting in Switzerland: rationale, design, and methods
Microbiota composition is fundamental to human health with the intestinal microbiota undergoing critical changes within the first two years of life. The develo** intestinal microbiota is shaped by maternal s...
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Open AccessResearch training in child and adolescent psychiatry: lack of motivation or a structural problem?
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Open AccessThe Importance of Implementation Fidelity for Teacher-Related Changes Within the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
Although teachers are key figures of a program’s effectiveness, most intervention studies to date have not explored how anti-bullying programs are associated with changes at teacher level. Moreover, teacher da...
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Open AccessThe impact of school-based screening on service use in adolescents at risk for mental health problems and risk-behaviour
Early detection and intervention can counteract mental disorders and risk behaviours among adolescents. However, help-seeking rates are low. School-based screenings are a promising tool to detect adolescents a...
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Open AccessMother–child interactions in adolescents with borderline personality disorder traits and the impact of early life maltreatment
Early detection and intervention of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in adolescence has become a public health priority. Theoretical models emphasize the role of social interactions and transgenerational ...
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Open AccessPrenatal stress and child externalizing behavior: effects of maternal perceived stress and cortisol are moderated by child sex
Externalizing behavior problems are related to social maladjustment. Evidence indicates associations between prenatal stress and child behavioral outcomes. It remains unclear how psychological distress vs. bio...
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Open AccessAssociations of state or trait dissociation with severity of psychopathology in young people with borderline personality disorder
State and trait dissociation are associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD) severity and severity of commonly co-occurring mental health symptoms. Although these distinct constructs do not consisten...
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Open AccessChild and adolescent psychiatry in the post-COVID era: lessons learned and consequences for the future
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Open AccessAdolescent borderline personality traits and dyadic behavior shape mother-adolescent cortisol synchrony
Associations between parent and child cortisol levels (“cortisol synchrony”) are often reported and positive synchrony may mark dyadic regulation on a physiological level. Although dyadic behavior during inter...
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Open AccessTreatment outcome of an intensive psychiatric home treatment for children and adolescents: a non-randomized controlled pilot evaluation
Home treatment (HT) may offer an effective and cost-efficient alternative to inpatient treatment for children and adolescents with acute mental disorders. This study introduces and evaluates a pilot HT project...
