Tormod Stangeland

Akershus universitetssykehus | Ahus · Ungdomspsykiatrisk klinikk

Helsetilsynets laeringspunkter kan paradoksalt nok hindre godt selvmordsforebyggende arbeid med vår pasientgruppe.

In cases influenced by elevated risk of suicide, the therapists’ need to regulate their own sense of unease may overshadow the treatment needs of the adolescent. The field of acute psychiatric treatment must be informed by established theory of relational difficulty as well as new empirical knowledge of the patient group. The field should make expl...

ABSTRACT: When safest treatment is not best treatment Acute mental health services for adolescents risk confounding two different groups of patients. Patients who complete suicide differ in important aspects from most relationally troubled adolescents with suicidal behaviour, but tend to score similarly on common measures of suicidality. Typical...

Several countries have established or are planning acute psychiatric in-patient services that accept around-the-clock emergency admission of adolescents. Our aim was to investigate the characteristics and clinical outcomes of a cohort of patients at four Norwegian units. We used a prospective pre-post observational design. Four units implemented a...