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Bo Vinnerljung
Researcher at Stockholm University
Publications - 110
Citations - 4468
Bo Vinnerljung is an academic researcher from Stockholm University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Foster care & Population. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 109 publications receiving 3994 citations. Previous affiliations of Bo Vinnerljung include Karolinska Institutet & National Board of Health and Welfare.
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Suicide, psychiatric illness, and social maladjustment in intercountry adoptees in Sweden: a cohort study.
TL;DR: Adoptees in Sweden have a high risk for severe mental health problems and social maladjustment in adolescence and young adulthood and are advised to give appropriate consideration to the high risk of suicide in patients who are intercountry adoptees.
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Into adulthood: a follow-up study of 718 young people who were placed in out-of-home care during their teens
Bo Vinnerljung,Marie Sallnäs +1 more
TL;DR: Into adulthood : a follow-up study of 718 youths who were placed in out-of-home care during their teens finds no significant difference between the ages of boys and girls in terms of where they are placed in the care system.
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Suicide Attempts and Severe Psychiatric Morbidity among Former Child Welfare Clients--A National Cohort Study.
TL;DR: It is suggested that former child welfare/protection clients should be considered a high-risk group for suicide attempts and severe psychiatric morbidity in younger years and have substantial practice implications for mental health and social agencies serving this group in adolescence and/or young adulthood.
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School performance in primary school and psychosocial problems in young adulthood among care leavers from long term foster care
TL;DR: Data was used from Swedish national registers for ten entire birth year cohorts to examine psychosocial outcomes in young adulthood for youth that left long term foster care after age 17, comparing them with majority population peers, national adoptees and peers who had received in-home interventions before age 13.
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Educational attainments of former child welfare clients – a Swedish national cohort study
TL;DR: Children who experienced interventions before ado-lescence, or had been in long-term stable foster care, had a two- to threefold elevated relative risk of entering adult life with only a compulsory education, compared with majority population peers with low educated mothers.