[Cannabis use in adolescents : Narrative Review and Position paper of the "Addiction Disorders in Adolescents" task force of the Austrian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (ÖGKJP)].

Background: Cannabis is the illegal drug most frequently used by Minors in Austria. Due to the gradual decriminalization and legalization that has taken place in many European countries in recent years, the ÖGKJP would like to take a balanced and scientifically based stand on the complex issue of cannabis use and abuse among young people.

Methods: The authors searched the medline for current studies using searches tailored to each specific subtopic.

[An Inpatient Concept for the Treatment of Eating Disorders - How to Implement a Systemic- Family-Therapeutic Approach].

The ward for the treatment of eating disorders was reconceptualized in the context of the reopening of the Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik in Hall in Tyrol. The focus is on systemic-family-therapeutic approaches, interdisciplinarity and groups offered for adolescents and their families struggling with an eating disorder. In addition, the ward will be expanded for adolescents with obesity who also suffer from a psychological comorbidity.

[Therapeutic Models for Children and Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria: Overview with Focus on Austrian Treatment Reality].

Young people whose experienced gender differs from their aligned sex are increasingly visible in public life as well as in the medical care system. For those children and adolescents, who can experience a high degree of suffering because of the discrepancy between aligned sex and desired gender, treatment guidelines have been developed. In this short narrative review, classification options, epidemiological data, health-care data and treatment guidelines are presented with an emphasis on the Austrian health care system.

[TransIdentity - Identity Development Among Adolescent Trans*people].

Identity development is one of the most important developmental tasks of adolescence. Adolescents whose gender identity does not correspond to the gender assigned at birth (trangender people) are also faced with this challenge, as are cis-gender adolescents of the same age. This study is the first to examine the personality function of identity in transgender adolescents.

[Multiple Substance Abuse as a Form of High Risk Behavior in Adolescence].

We identify multiple substance abuse as a form of high risk behavior in adolescence based on a sample of in-patient adolescents. 43 adolescents were treated for substance abuse over the course of 20 months. 70 % reported the use of three or more different drugs, with an average of 5,35 consumed substances.