Francesca Penner

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined change in mental health from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic among predominantly Hispanic/Latinx adolescents and found that better family functioning was consistently associated with lower mental health symptoms in youths during COVID19 follow-ups.

TL;DR: Examination of the concurrent relation between six dimensions of emotion dysregulation, proposed by Gratz and Roemer (2004), and suicide ideation and attempt in a large sample of psychiatric adolescent inpatients revealed an association between perceived limited emotion regulation strategies and suicidal ideation.

TL;DR: The study provides novel information on the potential mechanisms underlying the association between childhood maltreatment and suicidal ideation in adolescents and suggests generalized guilt and/or shame could be possible targets for interventions for victims of some forms of maltreatment to reduce depressive symptoms and suicidal Ideation.

TL;DR: Higher levels of identity diffusion and lower levels of narrative coherence of past events were expected to associate with BPD features in 70 inpatient adolescents, which confirmed hypotheses and confirmed hypotheses.

TL;DR: Targeting RF may help to build healthy identity among adolescents with symptoms of psychiatric disorders who have experienced maltreatment, particularly emotional abuse.