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Tilman Steinert

Tilman Steinert

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
41
Citations
5993
World Ranking
5117
National Ranking
139

Overview

Tilman Steinert is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany and has an extensive publication record primarily in the field of psychology. Their research spans multiple subfields, notably clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, philosophy, social psychology, and sociology and political science.

Their work touches on several key topics within these disciplines, including:

  • Psychiatric care and mental health services
  • Healthcare decision-making and restraints
  • Psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending
  • Mental health and psychiatry
  • Mental health treatment and access
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Criminal law and policy

Steinert has contributed to numerous publications in well-known academic venues. The most frequent publication sources for their work include:

  • Psychiatrische Praxis
  • Der Nervenarzt
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • PLoS ONE
  • The Lancet Regional Health - Europe

Notable papers authored or co-authored by Steinert cover a range of issues related to psychiatry and mental health. Selected recent publications are:

  • "Freedom Restrictive Coercive Measures in Forensic Psychiatry," 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "History of Childhood Trauma and Association With Borderline and Dissociative Features," 2020, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
  • "Victimization of People With Severe Mental Illness Outside and Within the Mental Health Care System: Results on Prevalence and Risk Factors From a Multicenter Study," 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "Increase in coercive measures in psychiatric hospitals in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2022, PLoS ONE
  • "Incidents of aggression in German psychiatric hospitals: Is there an increase?," 2021, PLoS ONE

Collaborative efforts have featured several frequent co-authors, indicating a network of ongoing research partnerships. These collaborators include:

  • Erich Flammer
  • Sophie Hirsch
  • Dorothea Sauter
  • Andreas Bechdolf
  • Lieselotte Mahler

Best Publications

  • Incidence of seclusion and restraint in psychiatric hospitals: a literature review and survey of international trends

    Tilman Steinert;Peter Lepping;Renate Bernhardsgrütter;Andreas Conca

  • Prediction of inpatient violence

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  • Aggressive Behavior Against Self and Others Among First-Admission Patients With Schizophrenia

    Tilman Steinert;Christian Wiebe;Ralf Peter Gebhardt

  • Legal provisions and practice in the management of violent patients. a case vignette study in 16 European countries.

    Tilman Steinert;Peter Lepping

  • Measurement of violence during in-patient treatment and association with psychopathology.

    T Steinert;M Wölfle;R P Gebhardt

  • Diagnosis-related frequency of compulsory measures in 10 German psychiatric hospitals and correlates with hospital characteristics

    Tilman Steinert;Veronika Martin;Manfred Baur;Ulrich Bohnet

  • Subjective Distress After Seclusion or Mechanical Restraint: One-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Study

    Tilman Steinert;Michael Birk;Erich Flammer;Jan Bergk

  • Physical Harm and Death in the Context of Coercive Measures in Psychiatric Patients: A Systematic Review.

    Xenia A. K. Kersting;Sophie Hirsch;Tilman Steinert

  • The use of mechanical restraint and seclusion in patients with schizophrenia: A comparison of the practice in Germany and Switzerland

    Veronika Martin;Renate Bernhardsgrütter;Rita Goebel;Tilman Steinert

  • A randomized controlled comparison of seclusion and mechanical restraint in inpatient settings.

    Jan Bergk;Beate Einsiedler;Erich Flammer;Tilman Steinert

  • Seclusion and restraint in patients with schizophrenia: Clinical and biographical correlates.

    Tilman Steinert;Gabriele Bergbauer;Peter Schmid;Ralf Peter Gebhardt

  • "Coercion Experience Scale" (CES) - validation of a questionnaire on coercive measures

    Jan Bergk;Erich Flammer;Tilman Steinert

  • The use of coercive interventions in mental health care in Germany and the Netherlands. A comparison of the developments in two neighboring countries.

    Tilman Steinert;Eric O. Noorthoorn;Cornelis L. Mulder

  • Prevalence of mental disorders among sexual offenders in forensic psychiatry and prison.

    Silke Harsch;Julia Emma Bergk;Tilman Steinert;Ferdinand Keller

  • Methodological issues in monitoring the use of coercive measures

    W.A. Janssen;R.R.W. van de Sande;E.O. Noorthoorn;H.L.I. Nijman

  • Attitudes of mental health professionals and lay-people towards involuntary admission and treatment in England and Germany—a questionnaire analysis

    Peter Lepping;Tilman Steinert;Ralf-Peter Gebhardt;Hanns Rüdiger Röttgers

  • Similarities and differences in borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia with voice hearing.

    Stefan Tschoeke;Tilman Steinert;Erich Flammer;Carmen Uhlmann

  • One-year incidence and prevalence of seclusion: Dutch findings in an international perspective

    Eric Noorthoorn;Peter Lepping;Wim Janssen;Adriaan Hoogendoorn

  • Effects of polypharmacy on outcome in patients with schizophrenia in routine psychiatric treatment

    G. Längle;T. Steinert;P. Weiser;W. Schepp

  • Measures to Avoid Coercion in Psychiatry and Their Efficacy.

    Sophie Hirsch;Tilman Steinert

  • SubjectiveDistressAfterSeclusionor MechanicalRestraint:One-YearFollow-Up ofaRandomizedControlledStudy

    Tilman Steinert;Michael Birk;Jan Bergk

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Becker
Thomas Becker Curtin University
Michael Siniatchkin
Michael Siniatchkin Kiel University
Ulrich Stephani
Ulrich Stephani Kiel University
Franz Petermann
Franz Petermann University of Bremen
Johannes Michalak
Johannes Michalak Witten/Herdecke University
Jürgen Margraf
Jürgen Margraf Ruhr University Bochum
Winfried Rief
Winfried Rief Philipp University of Marburg
Silvia Schneider
Silvia Schneider Ruhr University Bochum
Richard Whittington
Richard Whittington Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Sabine C. Herpertz
Sabine C. Herpertz Heidelberg University

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