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Overview

Ask Elklit is affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark in Denmark. Their primary field of study is Psychology, with a strong emphasis on Clinical Psychology. Additional areas of research include General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Health.

Their research extensively covers topics related to trauma, mental health, and social factors affecting psychological well-being. Main topics of their work include:

  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Homelessness and Social Issues

Ask Elklit has published numerous studies, contributing across several prominent journals. Frequent publication venues with multiple contributions include:

  • European journal of psychotraumatology
  • European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
  • Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

Among their recent papers are:

  • "The psychological subtype of intimate partner violence and its effect on mental health: a systematic review with meta-analyses" (2022, Systematic Reviews)
  • "Compassion Protects Mental Health and Social Safeness During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across 21 Countries" (2022, Mindfulness)
  • "Traumatic experiences, ICD-11 PTSD, ICD-11 complex PTSD, and the overlap with ICD-10 diagnoses" (2020, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica)
  • "The role of social connection on the experience of COVID-19 related post-traumatic growth and stress" (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • "Adverse childhood experience is associated with an increased risk of reporting chronic pain in adulthood: a stystematic review and meta-analysis" (2023, European journal of psychotraumatology)

Collaborations form an important part of their research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Maria Louison Vang (25 coauthored papers)
  • Jesper Pihl-Thingvad (15 coauthored papers)
  • Sille Schandorph Løkkegaard (14 coauthored papers)
  • Paulo Ferrajão (13 coauthored papers)
  • Sarah Bøgelund Dokkedahl (8 coauthored papers)

Best Publications

  • Loneliness, Depressive Symptomatology, and Suicide Ideation in Adolescence: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses

    Mathias Lasgaard;Louis Goossens;Ask Elklit

  • PTSD-8: A Short PTSD Inventory.

    Maj Hansen;Tonny Elmose Andersen;Cherie Armour;Ask Elklit

  • Victimization and PTSD in a Danish National Youth Probability Sample

    Ask Elklit

  • The combined effect of gender and age on post traumatic stress disorder: do men and women show differences in the lifespan distribution of the disorder?

    Daniel N Ditlevsen;Ask Elklit

  • Variation in post-traumatic response: the role of trauma type in predicting ICD-11 PTSD and CPTSD symptoms

    Philip Hyland;Philip Hyland;Jamie Murphy;Mark Shevlin;Frédérique Vallières

  • Evidence of symptom profiles consistent with posttraumatic stress disorder and complex posttraumatic stress disorder in different trauma samples

    Ask Elklit;Philip Hyland;Mark Shevlin

  • Attachment styles, traumatic events, and PTSD: a cross-sectional investigation of adult attachment and trauma

    Maja O'Connor;Ask Elklit

  • Psychological reactions in Icelandic earthquake survivors.

    Iris Bödvarsdóttir;Ask Elklit

  • Exercise addiction: A study of eating disorder symptoms, quality of life, personality traits and attachment styles

    Mia Beck Lichtenstein;Erik Christiansen;Ask Elklit;Niels Bilenberg

  • Psychosocial treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder in adult refugees: A systematic review of prospective treatment outcome studies and a critique

    Sabina Palic;Ask Elklit

  • The Crisis Support Scale: Psychometric qualities and further validation.

    Ask Elklit;Susanne Schmidt Pedersen;Lise Jind

  • Gender, trauma type, and PTSD prevalence: a re-analysis of 18 nordic convenience samples

    Daniel N Ditlevsen;Ask Elklit

  • Different sources of loneliness are associated with different forms of psychopathology in adolescence

    Mathias Lasgaard;Luc Goossens;Rikke Holm Bramsen;Tea Trillingsgaard

  • A recovery program to improve quality of life, sense of coherence and psychological health in ICU survivors: a multicenter randomized controlled trial, the RAPIT study

    Janet Froulund Jensen;Ingrid Egerod;Morten H Bestle;Doris F Christensen

  • An Assessment of the Construct Validity of the ICD-11 proposals for Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Philip Hyland;Mark Shevlin;Ask Elklit;Jamie Murphy

  • The structure of PTSD symptoms: A test of alternative models using confirmatory factor analysis

    Ask Elklit;Mark Shevlin

  • World Assumptions and Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

    Rachel Dekel;Zahava Solomon;Ask Elklit;Karni Ginzburg

  • A review of psychological factors related to bullying victimization in schools.

    Tine Bitsch Hansen;Lone Majlund Steenberg;Sabina Palic;Ask Elklit

  • A latent class analysis of childhood maltreatment: Identifying abuse typologies

    Cherie Armour;Ask Elklit;Mogens Nygaard Christoffersen

  • ASD and PTSD in Rape Victims

    Ask Elklit;Dorte M Christiansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Shevlin
Mark Shevlin University of Ulster
Cherie Armour
Cherie Armour Queen's University Belfast
Philip Hyland
Philip Hyland National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Jon D. Elhai
Jon D. Elhai University of Toledo
Erik Simonsen
Erik Simonsen University of Copenhagen
Hans M. Koot
Hans M. Koot Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Zahava Solomon
Zahava Solomon Tel Aviv University
Erik Lykke Mortensen
Erik Lykke Mortensen University of Copenhagen
Mary P. Koss
Mary P. Koss University of Arizona
Miranda Olff
Miranda Olff University of Amsterdam

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