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Bo Vinnerljung

Bo Vinnerljung

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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42
Citations
6980
World Ranking
4779
National Ranking
55

Overview

Bo Vinnerljung is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden, focusing on research that intersects social sciences and psychology. Their scholarly activity mainly addresses issues related to child welfare and adoption, child abuse and trauma, and suicide and self-harm studies. The research also extends into intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, homelessness and social issues, migration, health and trauma, as well as prenatal substance exposure effects.

Their recent publications showcase investigations on the long-term outcomes and social implications connected with out-of-home care and adoption. The following papers highlight key contributions:

  • Outcomes in Adulthood After Long-Term Foster Care: A Sibling Approach, 2020, Child Maltreatment
  • Association of Child Placement in Out-of-Home Care With Trajectories of Hospitalization Because of Suicide Attempts From Early to Late Adulthood, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Inequalities in educational outcomes in individuals with childhood experience of out-of-home care: What are driving the differences?, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Increased risk of suicidal behaviour in non-European international adoptees decreases with age - A Swedish national cohort study, 2020, EClinicalMedicine
  • Intergenerational transmission of placement in out-of-home care: Mediation and interaction by educational attainment, 2021, Child Abuse & Neglect

Their frequent coauthors include Anders Hjern, Lars Brännström, Ylva B. Almquist, Jesús Palacios, and Hélio Manhica, reflecting a collaborative approach across topics related to clinical psychology and safety research. Publications appear in a range of academic journals, notably:

  • Child Maltreatment
  • JAMA Network Open
  • EClinicalMedicine
  • PLoS ONE
  • Psychological Medicine

Bo Vinnerljung's research spans several subfields, integrating clinical psychology, safety research, sociology and political science, general health professions, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. This multidisciplinary orientation supports the exploration of complex social and health-related issues within vulnerable populations, particularly focusing on the experiences and outcomes for children in foster care or adopted out-of-home.

Best Publications

  • Suicide, psychiatric illness, and social maladjustment in intercountry adoptees in Sweden: a cohort study.

    Anders Hjern;Frank Lindblad;Bo Vinnerljung

  • Into adulthood: a follow-up study of 718 young people who were placed in out-of-home care during their teens

    Bo Vinnerljung;Marie Sallnäs

  • School performance in primary school and psychosocial problems in young adulthood among care leavers from long term foster care

    Marie Berlin;Bo Vinnerljung;Anders Hjern

  • Suicide Attempts and Severe Psychiatric Morbidity among Former Child Welfare Clients--A National Cohort Study.

    Bo Vinnerljung;Bo Vinnerljung;Anders Hjern;Anders Hjern;Frank Lindblad

  • Educational attainments of former child welfare clients – a Swedish national cohort study

    Bo Vinnerljung;Maria Öman;Thomas Gunnarson

  • Breakdown of teenage placements in Swedish foster and residential care

    Marie Sallnäs;Bo Vinnerljung;Pia Kyhle Westermark

  • Interventions aiming to improve school achievements of children in out-of-home care: A scoping review

    Hilma Forsman;Bo Vinnerljung;Bo Vinnerljung

  • Outcomes of family group conferencing in Sweden. A 3-year follow-up.

    Knut Sundell;Bo Vinnerljung

  • Intercountry adopted children as young adults--a Swedish cohort study.

    Frank Lindblad;Anders Hjern;B. Vinnerljung

  • Cognitive, educational and self-support outcomes of long-term foster care versus adoption : A Swedish national cohort study

    Bo Vinnerljung;Bo Vinnerljung;Anders Hjern

  • The Epidemiology of Out-of-Home Care for Children and Youth: A National Cohort Study

    Eva Franzén;Bo Vinnerljung;Anders Hjern

  • Avoidable mortality among child welfare recipients and intercountry adoptees: a national cohort study

    A Hjern;B Vinnerljung;F Lindblad

  • Fosterbarn som vuxna

    Bo Vinnerljung

  • Does poor school performance cause later psychosocial problems among children in foster care? Evidence from national longitudinal registry data

    Hilma Forsman;Lars Brännström;Bo Vinnerljung;Anders Hjern

  • Psychosocial outcomes of fetal alcohol syndrome in adulthood.

    Jenny Rangmar;Anders Hjern;Bo Vinnerljung;Kerstin Strömland

  • Improving Foster Children's School Achievements: Promising Results from a Swedish pilot study

    Eva Tideman;Bo Vinnerljung;Kristin Hintze;Anna Aldenius Isaksson

  • Teenage Parenthood among Child Welfare Clients: A Swedish National Cohort Study of Prevalence and Odds.

    Bo Vinnerljung;Eva Franzén;Maria Danielsson

  • Child welfare in Sweden - an overview

    Sven Hessle;Bo Vinnerljung

  • Skolbetyg, utbildning och risker för ogynnsam utveckling hos barn

    B Vinnerljung;M Berlin;A Hjern

  • Childhood socio-economic status, school failure and drug abuse: a Swedish national cohort study

    Karl Gauffin;Bo Vinnerljung;Bo Vinnerljung;Mats Fridell;Mats Fridell;Morten Hesse

Frequent Co-Authors

Mikael Rostila
Mikael Rostila Stockholm University
Bo Burström
Bo Burström Karolinska Institute
Leslie L. Roos
Leslie L. Roos University of Manitoba
Catherine Tuvblad
Catherine Tuvblad Örebro University
Morten Hesse
Morten Hesse Aarhus University
Luis Rajmil
Luis Rajmil Government of Catalonia
Anne R. Pebley
Anne R. Pebley University of California, Los Angeles

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