Andre
Sourander
Professor, Child Psychiatry
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Areas of expertise
Child psychiatry
adolescent psychiatry
epidemiology
intervention studies
implementation studies
service-use
Biography
Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University. The focus of his work for the last 30 years has been to identify early psychosocial and biological risk factors for the causes of mental health disturbances, as well as to find keys to the development of selective interventions focused on children at risk.
Teaching
Dr. Sourander is responsible for teaching medical students and residents at the Department of Child Psychiatry. He has been the Primary Supervisor of 19 finalized thesis. He is the Primary Supervisor of 6 post-doc researchers and 9 PhD /Dr Med Sc students.
Publications
The risk of childhood autism among second-generation migrants in Finland – a case-control study (2013)
a case-control study
BMC Pediatrics
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Prevalence Changes of Pain, Sleep Problems and Fatigue Among 8-Year-Old Children: Years 1989, 1999 and 2005 (2012)
Journal of Pediatric Psychology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Changes in adolescents mental health and use of alcohol and tobacco: a 10-year time-trend study of Finnish adolescents. (2012)
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Childhood bullying and becoming a young father in a national cohort of Finnish boys (2012)
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
What predicts illicit drug use versus police-registered drug offending? (2012)
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Psychotropic drug and polypharmacy use among adolescents and young adults: findings from the Finnish 1981 Nationwide Birth Cohort Study (2012)
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Psychosocial determinants of headache, abdominal pain, and sleep problems in a community sample of Finnish adolescents (2012)
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Pain at age eight as a predictor of antidepressant medication use by age 24: Findings from the Finnish nationwide 1981 birth cohort study (2012)
Journal of Affective Disorders
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Childhood predictors of becoming a teenage mother among Finnish girls (2012)
Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
What Is the Long-term Outcome of Boys Who Steal at Age Eight? Findings from the Finnish Nationwide “From a Boy to a Man” Birth Cohort Study (2012)
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))