Glow up: does a professional photoshoot intervention affect self-esteem and emotions among adolescent psychiatric patients?-A longitudinal intervention study.

Background: Today, online communication is shaped by a billion-dollar social media (SM) and social networking site (SNS) industry. Visual content consumed by children and adolescents has been shown to influence behavioral patterns, state emotions, and self-esteem (SE). In this study, we introduced a novel intervention creating visual content through a professional photoshoot and investigated its impact on state emotions and SE in child and adolescent psychiatric (CAP) patients.

Problematic Internet Use Among Adolescent Male and Female Psychiatric Inpatients: A Gender Perspective.

Problematic internet use (PIU) is of treatment interest in adolescent clinical samples. Gender specific differences in terms of personality traits and psychopathological symptoms remain unclear. In an adolescent clinical sample (n = 104; 69 girls) PIU, psychopathology, temperament and character traits as well as emotional and behavioral problems were assessed.

[Patterns of psychopathology and psychosocial background of patients at first presentation at the child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient department of the University Clinic Salzburg].

Background: This study examines the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and psychosocial background of outpatients at an Austrian child and adolescent psychiatry department.

Methods: One hundred eighty-three patients were examined using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview for Children and Adolescents and the Multidimensional Clinical Screening Inventory. Pearson's chi-square tests were used to explore the prevalence of psychiatric disorders between gender and age-groups and their relationship with the psychosocial background of patients.