Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Position: PHD Student
ORCID: 0000-0002-1959-1088
T +43 1 40400 30395
diana.klinger@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
Adolescent Psychiatry; Adolescent Psychology; Autistic Disorder; Child Abuse; Child Psychiatry; Child Psychology; Gender Identity; Health Services for Transgendered Persons; Psychological Tests; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; Transgendered Persons
Research group(s)
- Stress in Childhood and Adolescence (SCAR-Unit)
Head: Oswald D. Kothgassner
Research Area: Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychiatry, Stress Mechanisms, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Virtual Reality, Ecological Momentary Assessments, Neuroscience
Members:
Research interests
As a practicing clinical psychologist and board manager of the Gender Incongruence Board at the Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics (CCP), I provide health services, mainly psychological assessment for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria. My main research focus is also connected to this patient group, as the aim of my doctoral thesis is to offer insight into the mental health of transgender and gender diverse youth.
Gender dysphoric adolescents are significantly more likely to have mental health problems than their cisgender peers, thus expertise in psychiatric disorders, such as autism-spectrum-disorders and post-traumatic stress disorders is essential in this field. Furthermore, I focus on the development of psychological treatment methods for transgender adolescents.
Selected publications
- Klinger, D. et al. (2024) ‘Exploring the relationship between media use and depressive symptoms among gender diverse youth: findings of the Mental Health Days Study’, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 18(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-024-00797-x.
- Klinger, D. et al. (2023) ‘Mental Health of Transgender Youth: A Comparison of Assigned Female at Birth and Assigned Male at Birth Individuals’, Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12(14), p. 4710. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12144710.
- Knaus, S. et al. (2024) ‘Body Mass Index Distributions and Obesity Prevalence in a Transgender Youth Cohort – A Retrospective Analysis’, Journal of Adolescent Health, 75(1), pp. 127–132. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.03.005.
- Goreis, A. et al. (2024) ‘Attentional Biases and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Urges in Adolescents’, JAMA Network Open, 7(7), p. e2422892. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.22892.
- Goreis, A. et al. (2023) ‘Conspiracy beliefs and COVID-19 guideline adherence in adolescent psychiatric outpatients: the predictive role of adverse childhood experiences’, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 17(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-022-00554-y.