
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Position: Professor
ORCID: 0000-0003-4333-1494
T +43 1 40400 30760
paul.plener@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
Adolescent Psychiatry; Biological Psychiatry; Psychotherapy; Self-Injurious Behavior; Suicide
Research interests
My research focus is on Nonsuicidal Self-injury (NSSI) and suicidal behavior in adolescents as well as on traumatic stress in childhood and adolescence.
Techniques, methods & infrastructure
- epidemiology
- fMRI
- psychological
Selected publications
- Otter, M. et al. (2024) ‘The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rates of adolescents receiving psychopharmacological medication in Austria’, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 18(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-023-00684-x.
- Czernin, K. et al. (2023) ‘Space for youth mental health—coercive measure use before and after architectural innovation at a department of child and adolescent psychiatry’, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 29(4), pp. 333–339. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12690.
- Robinson, K. et al. (2022) ‘Communicating distress: suicide threats/gestures among clinical and community youth’, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 32(8), pp. 1497–1506. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-022-01960-5.
- Pirkis, J. et al. (2021) ‘Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries’, The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(7), pp. 579–588. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(21)00091-2.
- Plener, P.L. et al. (2018) ‘Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents’, Deutsches Ärzteblatt international [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2018.0023.