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Paul Plener
Univ. Prof. Dr. Paul Plener, MHBAHead of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Position: Professor

ORCID: 0000-0003-4333-1494
T +43 1 40400 30760
paul.plener@meduniwien.ac.at

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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.