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Paul L. Plener is affiliated with the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a particular focus on Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their work addresses several key subfields including Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science. The main topics tackled by their research are diverse and concentrate heavily on mental health challenges affecting young populations. These topics include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Paul L. Plener has contributed frequently to several publication venues. The most common of these include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Neuropsychiatrie
  • Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie

The scientist has collaborated extensively with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Oswald D. Kothgassner
  • Jörg M. Fegert
  • Michael Kaess
  • Andreas Goreis
  • Tobias Banaschewski

Among recent notable publications are:

  • Challenges and burden of the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic for child and adolescent mental health: a narrative review to highlight clinical and research needs in the acute phase and the long return to normality, 2020, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy for adolescent self-harm and suicidal ideation: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents With Psychiatric Disorders. A Narrative Review, 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and adolescent psychiatric services after 1 year (February/March 2021): ESCAP CovCAP survey, 2021, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Challenges and burden of the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic for child and adolescent mental health: A narrative review to highlight clinical and research needs in the acute phase and the long return to normality

    Jörg M. Fegert;Benedetto Vitiello;Paul L. Plener;Paul L. Plener;Vera Clemens

  • International prevalence of adolescent non-suicidal self-injury and deliberate self-harm

    Jennifer J. Muehlenkamp;Laurence Claes;L. Havertape;P.L. Plener

  • The longitudinal course of non-suicidal self-injury and deliberate self-harm: a systematic review of the literature.

    Paul L Plener;Teresa S Schumacher;Lara M Munz;Rebecca C Groschwitz

  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries.

    Jane Pirkis;Ann John;Sangsoo Shin;Marcos DelPozo-Banos

  • Non-suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescence

    Rebecca C. Brown;Paul L. Plener

  • An international comparison of adolescent non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicide attempts: Germany and the USA.

    Paul Lukas Plener;Gerhard Libal;Ferdinand Keller;Jörg Michael Fegert

  • Adverse childhood experiences and their impact on frequency, severity, and the individual function of nonsuicidal self-injury in youth

    Michael Kaess;Peter Parzer;Margarete Mattern;Paul L. Plener

  • Psychosocial risk factors for suicidality in children and adolescents

    J. J. Carballo;C. Llorente;L. Kehrmann;I. Flamarique

  • Child maltreatment in Germany: prevalence rates in the general population

    Andreas Witt;Rebecca C. Brown;Paul L. Plener;Elmar Brähler;Elmar Brähler

  • Virtual reality exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): a meta-analysis

    Oswald D. Kothgassner;Andreas Goreis;Johanna X. Kafka;Rahel L. Van Eickels

  • Psychosocial interventions for children and adolescents after man-made and natural disasters: a meta-analysis and systematic review.

    R. C. Brown;A. Witt;Jörg M. Fegert;F. Keller

  • Efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy for adolescent self-harm and suicidal ideation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Oswald D. Kothgassner;Andreas Goreis;Kealagh Robinson;Mercedes M. Huscsava

  • Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents With Psychiatric Disorders. A Narrative Review

    Frank W Paulus;Susanne Ohmann;Eva Möhler;Paul Plener

  • #cutting: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) on Instagram.

    R C Brown;T Fischer;A D Goldwich;F Keller

  • The German version of the self-injurious thoughts and behaviors interview (SITBI-G): a tool to assess non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behavior disorder

    Gloria Fischer;Nina Ameis;Peter Parzer;Paul L Plener

  • Why alternative teenagers self-harm: exploring the link between non-suicidal self-injury, attempted suicide and adolescent identity

    Robert Young;Nina Sproeber;Rebecca C Groschwitz;Marthe Preiss

  • Perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and adolescent psychiatric services after 1 year (February/March 2021): ESCAP CovCAP survey.

    Alexis Revet;Johannes Hebebrand;Dimitris Anagnostopoulos;Laura A. Kehoe

  • The Impact of Migration Status on Adolescents’ Mental Health during COVID-19

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  • Prone to excitement: Adolescent females with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) show altered cortical pattern to emotional and NSS-related material

    Paul L. Plener;Nikola Bubalo;Anne K. Fladung;Andrea G. Ludolph

  • The prevalence of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) in a representative sample of the German population

    Paul L. Plener;Marc Allroggen;Nestor D. Kapusta;Elmar Brähler;Elmar Brähler

  • Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents.

    Paul L. Plener;Michael Kaess;Christian Schmahl;Stefan Pollak

  • Clinical diagnoses, characteristics of risk behaviour, differences between suicidal and non-suicidal subgroups of Hungarian adolescent outpatients practising self-injury.

    Janos Csorba;Elek Dinya;Paul Plener;Edit Nagy

  • Hilfebedarf und Hilfsangebote in der Versorgung von unbegleiteten minderjährigen Flüchtlingen

    Andreas Witt;Miriam Rassenhofer;Jörg M. Fegert;Paul L. Plener

  • The association of non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behavior according to DSM-5 in adolescent psychiatric inpatients.

    Rebecca C. Groschwitz;Michael Kaess;Gloria Fischer;Nina Ameis

Frequent Co-Authors

Jörg M. Fegert
Jörg M. Fegert University of Ulm
Elmar Brähler
Elmar Brähler Leipzig University
Michael Kaess
Michael Kaess University of Bern
Romuald Brunner
Romuald Brunner Heidelberg University
Lutz Goldbeck
Lutz Goldbeck University of Ulm
Rita Rosner
Rita Rosner Catholic University of America
Christian Schmahl
Christian Schmahl Heidelberg University
Franz Resch
Franz Resch Heidelberg University
Luise Poustka
Luise Poustka University of Göttingen
Jennifer J. Muehlenkamp
Jennifer J. Muehlenkamp University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire

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