Silvia Exenberger

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• Researcher at Tirol Kliniken

There is a paucity of research exploring the potential positive changes in the aftermath of a crisis from the perspective of children. The present study sought to address this gap by examining posttraumatic growth (PTG) among North Tyrolean (Austria) and South Tyrolean (Northern Italy) children aged 8–12 at the final phase of the Covid COVID-19 cri...

Background Initial studies suggest that individuals with a history of traumatic life experiences, particularly childhood trauma, may be more susceptible to increased mental health problems in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods The present cross-sectional study compared the mental health status of three cohorts of university students before...

Cross-cultural research acknowledges culturally dependent ways of understanding, interpreting, and processing psychological trauma. Discourses about individual responses to traumatic events in low-income countries like crisis-ridden Sierra Leone ought to con- sider a person’s psychosocial background in a sociocultural, histor- ical, and political c...

Few high-quality instruments are available to comprehensively screen for multiple interpersonal traumatic childhood experiences differentiated by developmental stage. One instrument assessing various forms of childhood trauma is the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE-X, Teicher & Parigger, 2015), which allows for the assessment of...

Zusammenfassung: Theoretischer Hintergrund: Yoga gewinnt als vielversprechender Behandlungsansatz bei Essstörungen zunehmend an Bedeutung, dennoch fehlen spezifische Studien im stationären, jugendpsychiatrischen Setting. Fragestellung: Was sind die Herausforderungen, Wirkmechanismen und Empfehlungen für die Anwendung von Yoga bei dieser Patient_inn...

Die Tiroler COVID-19 Kinderstudie untersuchte die psychische Gesundheit der Nord- und Südtiroler Kindergartenkinder während der COVID-19-Pandemie aus der Sicht von Eltern und Elementarpädagog_innen. Diese Teilstudie wurde im Mixed-Methods Design durchgeführt. In einer quantitativen Online-Befragung wurden 743 Nord- und Südtiroler Eltern zu drei Mes...

Purpose This study aimed to compare the mental health outcomes of children in North Tyrol, Austria, and South Tyrol, Italy, during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, considering the sociocultural and contextual differences between the two regions. Methods The Tyrolean COVID-19 Children’s Study (TCCS: n = 401; June 2021 to July 2021)...

The aim of this study was to determine the predictive value of corona-specific variables and post-traumatic stress symptoms associated with the COVID-19-pandemic, considering sociodemographic data and health-related quality of life, on the affective well-being of preschool children and to identify predictors of positive and negative affect. A secon...

Background: The past 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic were stressful for most children and adolescents; some children may have experienced a high level of stress and trauma. To date, no study has examined self-reported stress and trauma levels due to COVID-19 in children. This study aimed to assess perceived threat, exposure and trauma symptoms in...

In the project "Resilient Children", a resilience promotion program for kindergartens and elementary schools was directly applied and evaluated during the COVID-19-crisis.The aim of the study was to strengthen the three sources of resilience according to Grotberg (1995) I HAVE, I AM and I CAN through targeted exercises and resilience-promoting comm...

Zusammenfassung: Theoretischer Hintergrund: Bei der COVID-19-Pandemie handelt es sich um eine globale Krise und internationale Studien zeigen Auswirkungen auf Kinder aus Sicht von Kindern und Eltern. Fragestellung: Da die COVID-19-Pandemie eine alle betreffende, neuartige Krisensituation darstellt, wurde in der vorliegenden qualitativen Teilstudie...

In diesem Buchkapitel geht es um die Resilienzförderung auf der Ebene von Einzelpersonen, Gruppen und Gemeinschaften.

Background The past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic were stressful to most children and adolescents, and some of the children may have experienced a high level of stress and trauma. To date, no study has examined differences in self-reported stress and trauma levels due to COVID-19 in children. This study aimed to assess the differences between...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying containment measures such as physical distancing and school closures led to major changes in children’s everyday lives. By means of a mixed-methods study, the “Tyrolean COVID-19 Children’s Study” investigated the effects of the pandemic and factors influencing mental health and health-related quality of li...

The Sierra Leonean population has faced severe collective traumata (e.g., civil war, Ebola). Although adversities have a devastating impact on people’s lives, there is strong evidence that the struggle with stressful life events can lead to positive changes, which is called posttraumatic growth (PTG). Across many cultures individuals experience PTG...

Aim: The Austrian Competence Level Catalogue for Medical Skills clearly states the importance of teaching communicative and social competence in the different subject areas of undergraduate medical and dental education. This paper aims to present an overview of the academic courses at the Medical University of Innsbruck that explicitly address the...

Although the Capability Approach (CA) has been applied in research about children, the extent of this is unclear. Developing knowledge about the CA applied to childhood is important to facilitate support that may benefit children’s well-being. To identify and synthesise the literature on this topic, we used a scoping review methodology with the gui...

This preliminary study explores the perspectives of at-risk youths from different cultural backgrounds on their well-being. We propose that youths’ “well-being awareness” – i.e. what sources of well-being adolescents spontaneously become aware of when they are asked about – is strongly related to their socio-cultural context, their life experiences...

Background Psychological violence is a persistent issue in academic medicine and affects the health and safety of health care workers. This violence is also debated as part of medical culture. Third parties, persons learning about violations after it happened, may provide an understanding of the interplay between gender and psychological violence....

Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can have severe detrimental effects on physical and mental health. This study aimed to present prevalence rates of ACEs amongst a mixed sample of hospital patients. Methods In- and outpatients at seven departments of the University Hospital of Innsbruck (Austria) participated in the study. They compl...

Violence has many forms. One form of violence relates to auto-aggression, which includes suicide attempts and suicide itself. In this narrative review we focus on adolescent suicide and how school staff and students can be supported after such an event. Adolescent suicide endangers the wellbeing of all groups involved in a school context (teachers,...

Background: Few studies examine caregiver-child agreement on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in non-Western cultures. The present study investigated mother-child agreement for PTSD symptoms in a South Indian sample, which was affected by the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004. Methods: Data was collected four years post-disaster. In tota...

Background: Highly adverse events can shatter fundamental assumptions about one’s self and the expected course of life actuating a process of adjustment regarding new appraisals. This struggle in the aftermath of adversity might yield posttraumatic growth (PTG), which refers to positive transformation within the person. PTG is a concept that has be...

Zusammenfassung Peer Viktimisierung (PV) im Jugendalter kann mit psychischen Belastungen über die Lebensspanne hinweg einhergehen. Obwohl eine Vielzahl von Instrumenten zur Erfassung von PV entwickelt wurden, fehlen häufig Evidenzen für deren Einsatz. Besonders bei den Instrumenten zur Erfassung von Cybermobbing fehlen oft psychometrische Berechnun...

Background: Domestic violence (DV) is a widespread yet commonly underdetected problem with severe impact on physical and mental health. To date, only limited information is available on prevalence and detection-rates of victims of DV in hospital settings. Objective: The aim of this study was (a) to assess the prevalence and impact of DV on physica...

Few studies are planned to ‘give voice’ to children from different cultural backgrounds to explore their sources of happiness. To address this gap, the present study analysed focus group discussions with 42 South Indian and 48 European children aged 8 to 17 years. During the discussions, the children were asked about what makes them happy and sad a...

Objective: Previous research has shown a detrimental effect of child victimization (CV) on physical disease and mortality. Additionally, individuals with adverse experiences in childhood frequently face domestic violence (DV) in later life. As DV has also been observed to harm physical health, a potential cumulative effect has been proposed. Curre...

Objectives: The regulation of strong emotions is an essential skill for traumatized patients. The present instrument was developed for the measurement of the self-soothing ability in traumatized patients. Methods: The psychometric properties of the SBS were investigated in a clinical sample of patients with childhood trauma (N = 143). In additio...

Die negativen Effekte eines traumatischen Ereignisses sind bei Erwachsenen und auch bei Kindern und Jugendlichen wissenschaftlich gut belegt. Seit den 1990er Jahren zeigt die Traumaforschung immer mehr Interesse an möglichen positiven Folgen einer Traumatisierung. Posttraumatisches Wachstum wird als positive psychologische Veränderung durch die Aus...

Background Members of emergency teams are exposed to increased burdens during their operations. The difference between the role of officers in charge and members of emergency teams has not yet been considered. If there are differences in emotion regulation processes in those two groups, it should be concluded that different methods in aftercare are...

Few studies explore posttraumatic growth (PTG) in children from Eastern cultures. To help address this gap, the present study examined PTG among 177 South Indian children aged 8–17 years who were affected by the 2004 Tsunami. The study identifies the underlying factor structure of the Tamil version of the Revised Posttraumatic Growth Inventory for...

This paper examined the association of mothers’ and children’s posttraumatic stress reactions in the long-term aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami in South India. M 106 mothers gave answers for their 221 tsunami-affected children to the Traumatic Events Screening Inventory and the Parent Report of Child’s Reaction to Stress. The Impact of Event Scale and...

This book explores the broad view on child well-being and the quality of life research. It starts with a discussion of the origin of the s4ocial indicator movement and a review of literature on the concepts of quality of life, (subjective) well-being and resilience. It then discusses the force of culture on child development, and shows how two prot...

The southern state Tamil Nadu was the worst hit part of the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster in 2004. Mostly, fishing families were affected. The present study was one work-package of a larger research project with the acronym ‘post-Tsunami.’ The main purpose of the present study was to develop contextualized child well-being indicators. With other wo...

The force of culture on child development will be highlighted. Based on the literature, it will be shown how two prototypical environments (rural subsistence-based and urban Western environment) favor either the independent or interdependent self-model, which in turn have implications on what competencies are valued in a specific culture and what d...

The Southern state of Tamil Nadu was the worst hit part of the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster in 2004. Mostly fishing families were affected. The present study was one work-package of a larger research project with the acronym ‘post-Tsunami.’ Out of the concepts of caregivers’ and children’ own views on child well-being, a list of child well-being i...

The main purpose of the present study was to find out what makes up child well-being from a caregiver’s and a child’s perspective in the given subculture more than four years after the Indian Ocean Tsunami. Both, caregivers and children had the opportunity to shape the well-being concept. Out of the results, four major conclusions referring to the...

Neben Antriebslosigkeit und dem Verlust der Interessen kann auch das Erleben von Hoffnungslosigkeit zu den zentralen Symptomen einer depressiven Erkrankung gehören, das vor allem von der Überzeugung, dass negative und nicht veränderbare Ereignisse eintreten werden, charakterisiert ist und wird mit dem Auftreten von Suizidgedanken in starken Zusamme...

Subjektives Wohlbefinden (SWB) wird umgangssprachlich als Glück bezeichnet und stellt die Evaluation einer Person über das eigene Leben dar. Auch in der Wissenschaft werden diese Begriffe oftmals synonym verwendet. Glücklich sein oder Unglücklich sein hat wesentliche Auswirkungen auf die Gesundheit und das Verhalten von Kindern. In diesem Beitrag w...

Based on the literature, recent shifts of child well-being indicators and the most important trends on child well-being measurements are highlighted. A comparison of domains and indicators of current evidence-based national composite child well-being indices and child well-being indices from children’s point of view is shown. Against this backgroun...

This literature overview focuses on the origin of the social indicator movement and gives a review on the concepts of quality of life, (subjective) well-being, and resilience. Delineations of the three concepts and their interplay, especially their intersection, are assumed to capture a full understanding of child well-being.

Self-leadership, the process of self-influence on one's thought and behavior patterns is growing in its importance due to increasing demands for organizations in a fast-paced world. Thus, self-leadership skills have become essential for individual (self-organization of work processes), group (self-management teams, shared leadership), and organizat...

Jugendliche mit Migrationshintergrund sind wesentlich stärker von Arbeits- und auch Perspektivenlosigkeit bedroht als gleichaltrige „Einheimische“. Jugendzentren, aber auch Institutionen der Berufs- und Bildungsberatung verfügen oftmals noch nicht über das erforderliche Wissen und Handwerkszeug für diese Zielgruppe. Vor diesem Hintergrund haben die...

Auf Basis einer Befragung von Lehrlingen, AusbilderInnen und BerufsschullehrerInnen wurden diese fünf konkreten Handlungsfelder der Lehrlingsausbildung definiert sowie Praxislösungen modellhaft erarbeitet und umgesetzt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren zeigen aktuelle Probleme der Lehrlingsausbildung auf, schaffen eine Basis für Praxislösungen und vermi...

The present research examined the influence of the two independent variables sex and race on the choice of friends in pre-school children. Data for this investigation were collected in two pre-schools, one situated in Stellenbosch, South Africa, the other in London, U.K. Both schools have in common that they accommodate children of different racial...