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Einar Heiervang

Einar Heiervang

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Psychology

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39
Citations
6707
World Ranking
8552
National Ranking
78

Overview

Einar Heiervang is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway, focusing primarily on Psychology and Social Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Education.

The main topics addressed in Heiervang's work cover a range of issues related to child and adolescent development and mental health. These topics include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access

Heiervang has published research in various academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Heiervang demonstrate continued engagement with youth anxiety, psychiatric disorders in children, and cognitive behavioral therapy outcomes. Notable papers include:

  • "Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in Norwegian 10-14-year-olds: Results from a cross-sectional study" (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • "School-based targeted prevention compared to specialist mental health treatment for youth anxiety" (2020, Child and Adolescent Mental Health)
  • "Adherence, Competence, and Alliance as Predictors of Long-term Outcomes of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety Disorders" (2023, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology)
  • "Parental internalizing symptoms as predictors of anxiety symptoms in clinic-referred children" (2020, Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology)
  • "Patterns of sub-optimal change following CBT for childhood anxiety" (2024, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)

Heiervang frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Gro Janne Wergeland, Krister W. Fjermestad, Arne Kodal, Jon Fauskanger Bjaastad, and Bente Storm Mowatt Haugland. These collaborations reflect a network of research activity concentrated on child and adolescent mental health topics.

Best Publications

  • Multicultural assessment of child and adolescent psychopathology with ASEBA and SDQ instruments : research findings, applications, and future directions

    Thomas M. Achenbach;Andreas Becker;Manfred Döpfner;Einar Heiervang

  • Psychiatric disorders in Norwegian 8- to 10-year-olds: an epidemiological survey of prevalence, risk factors, and service use.

    Einar Heiervang;Kjell M. Stormark;Astri J. Lundervold;Mikael Heimann

  • Socioeconomic Status and Child Mental Health: The Role of Parental Emotional Well-Being and Parenting Practices

    Tormod Bøe;Børge Sivertsen;Børge Sivertsen;Einar Heiervang;Robert Goodman

  • Mental disorders in foster children: a study of prevalence, comorbidity and risk factors

    Stine Lehmann;Odd E Havik;Toril Havik;Einar R Heiervang

  • Advantages and limitations of web-based surveys: evidence from a child mental health survey.

    Einar Heiervang;Robert Goodman

  • The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in the Nordic countries

    Carsten Obel;Einar Heiervang;Alina Rodriguez;Sonja Heyerdahl

  • Subthreshold depression in children and adolescents – a systematic review

    Rikke Wesselhoeft;Merete J. Sørensen;Einar R. Heiervang;Niels Bilenberg

  • The ‘DAWBA bands’ as an ordered-categorical measure of child mental health: description and validation in British and Norwegian samples

    Anna Goodman;Einar Heiervang;Stephan Collishaw;Robert Goodman

  • The Nordic advantage in child mental health: separating health differences from reporting style in a cross-cultural comparison of psychopathology.

    Einar Heiervang;Anna Goodman;Robert Goodman

  • An effectiveness study of individual vs. group cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders in youth.

    Gro Janne H. Wergeland;Gro Janne H. Wergeland;Krister W. Fjermestad;Carla E. Marin;Bente Storm-Mowatt Haugland

  • Less developed corpus callosum in dyslexic subjects--a structural MRI study.

    Kerstin von Plessen;Arvid Lundervold;Nicolae Duta;Einar Heiervang

  • Clinical Predictors of Response to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders: The Genes for Treatment (GxT) Study

    Jennifer L. Hudson;Robert Keers;Susanna Roberts;Jonathan R.I. Coleman

  • A Genome-Wide Test of the Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis Reveals a Genetic Predictor of Differential Response to Psychological Treatments for Child Anxiety Disorders.

    Robert Keers;Robert Keers;Jonathan Coleman;Kathryn Jane Lester;Kathryn Jane Lester;Susanna Louise Roberts

  • Planum temporale, planum parietale and dichotic listening in dyslexia

    Einar Heiervang;Kenneth Hugdahl;Helmuth Steinmetz;Alf Inge Smievoll

  • Long-term effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy for youth with anxiety disorders

    Arne Kodal;Arne Kodal;Krister Fjermestad;Ingvar Bjelland;Rolf Gjestad

  • Is maternal smoking during pregnancy a risk factor for Hyperkinetic disorder?—findings from a sibling design

    Carsten Obel;Jørn Olsen;Tine Brink Henriksen;Alina Rodriguez

  • Cross-national differences in questionnaires do not necessarily reflect comparable differences in disorder prevalence.

    Anna Goodman;Einar Heiervang;Bacy Fleitlich-Bilyk;Abdulla Alyahri

  • Predicting Nonresponse Bias from Teacher Ratings of Mental Health Problems in Primary School Children

    Kjell Morten Stormark;Einar Heiervang;Mikael Heimann;Mikael Heimann;Astri Lundervold

  • Behaviour problems in children with dyslexia.

    Einar Heiervang;Anders Lund;Jim Stevenson;Kenneth Hugdahl

  • Auditory processing in children with dyslexia

    Einar Heiervang;Jim Stevenson;Kenneth Hugdahl

  • Central auditory processing, MRI morphometry and brain laterality: applications to dyslexia.

    Kenneth Hugdahl;Einar Heiervang;Helge Nordby;Alf Inge Smievoll

Frequent Co-Authors

Odd E. Havik
Odd E. Havik University of Bergen
Wendy K. Silverman
Wendy K. Silverman Yale University
Kathryn J. Lester
Kathryn J. Lester University of Sussex
Kenneth Hugdahl
Kenneth Hugdahl University of Bergen
Thalia C. Eley
Thalia C. Eley King's College London
Robert Keers
Robert Keers Queen Mary University of London
Maaike H. Nauta
Maaike H. Nauta University of Groningen
Jennifer L. Hudson
Jennifer L. Hudson University of New South Wales
Cathy Creswell
Cathy Creswell University of Oxford
Susan M. Bögels
Susan M. Bögels University of Amsterdam

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