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Tailoring treatments for adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injury

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Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) in adolescence is highly prevalent and seems to be on the rise. To deliver evidence-based treatments to a large and growing number of adolescents, it is crucial to provide scaleable, manualized interventions that have the potential to fit into a stepped-care approach. The work by Kaess et al. (2019) was able to show a reduction of NSSI both by the brief intervention "Cutting Down", as well as by regular psychotherapeutic treatment. Future treatment strategies for NSSI should tailor treatment approaches to fit adolescents´ needs

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  1. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University Vienna, Waehringerguertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Paul L. Plener

  2. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Steinhoevelstr. 5, 89075, Ulm, Germany

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PLP has received research funding from the German federal ministry of education and research (BMBF), the German federal agency for drugs and medical devices (BfArM), the Baden Wuerttemberg foundation, the Volksagen foundation, Lundbeck and Servier. He received a speaker´s honorarium from Shire.

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Plener, P.L. Tailoring treatments for adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injury. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 29, 893–895 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01523-6

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