Sinikka Luutonen
Adjunct professor, clinical lecturer
sinluu@utu.fi |
Psychotherapy; general hospital psychiatry
- MD 1982
- specialist in geriatrics 1990
- PhD 1995
- specialist in psychiatry 1996
- psychotherapist 2004
- training psychotherapist 2007
- adjunct professor 2012
- clinical lecturer at the university of Turku since 1997
My earliest interest in research was orthostatic hypotension in the field of geriatrics. Later on, after specializing in psychiatry, my research topics have been depression, psychosomatics and early psychosis.
I teach medical students and residents in psychiatry. During the last years, my main interest in teaching has been psychotherapy. I am the leader of the psychotherapy training for residents in psychiatry and adolescent psychiatry at the university of Turku.
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- Articulating the “Self”. Referring to clients in reflection sequences during Finnish psychotherapy sessions with client-made videos (2023)
- Journal of Pragmatics
- Disorganized thinking and emotional poverty are primary clinical predictors of functioning in psychoses. Reanalysis of the Turku Early Psychosis Study data (2023)
- Psychiatria Fennica
- Interaction between multisensory information and emotional activation in video-facilitated psychotherapy (2023)
- Counselling and Psychotherapy Research
- Terveyspalvelujen suurkäyttäjät - tunnistamaton potilasryhmä : suurkäyttäjäkriteerin tulisi perustua yhteisesti sovittuun vuosittaiseen käyntimäärään (2023)
- Duodecim
- Kraepelin and Bleuler were right: disorganised thinking and poverty of emotions, not delusions or hallucinations, are primary in psychoses
(Abstracts of 33rd Nordic Congress of Psychiatry 2021, oral presentation) (2022)- Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
- Masentuneen potilaan hoito videoavusteisella lyhytpsykoterapialla (2022)
- Lääkärilehti
- Psykoosipotilaiden toimintakyvyn ennuste ja sitä ennustavat tekijät (2022)
- Duodecim
- Facilitating psychotherapy with patient-made videos: A qualitative study of patient experiences (2021)
- European journal for qualitative research in psychotherapy
- How GPs can Recognize Persistent Frequent Attenders at Finnish Primary Health Care Using Electronic Patient Records (2021)
- Journal of Primary Care and Community Health
- Short-term functional outcome in psychotic patients: results of the Turku early psychosis study (TEPS) (2021)
- BMC Psychiatry
- Childhood physical abuse and emotional neglect are specifically associated with adult mental disorders (2020)
- Journal of Mental Health
- Toiminnalliset oireet (2020) Kognitiivinen psykoterapia Luutonen Sinikka, Niemi Päivi M.
- A study on the association of psychiatric diagnoses and childhood adversities with suicide risk (2019)
- Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
- One-session cognitive behavior treatment for long-term frequent attenders in primary care: randomized controlled trial (2019)
- Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
- Patient-Made Videos as a Tool of Self-Observation Enhancing Self-Reflection in Psychotherapy: Description of the Method and a Clinical Case (2019)
- Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy
- Adverse childhood experiences leads to perceived negative attitude of others and the effect of adverse childhood experiences on depression in adulthood is mediated via negative attitude of others (2018)
- European Psychiatry
- Effect of administrative information on visit rate of frequent attenders in primary health care: ten-year follow-up study (2018)
- BMC Family Practice
- Effect of childhood adversities on alcohol problems is mainly mediated by depression (2018)
- American Journal on Addictions
- Determinants of costs of care for patients attending primary care (2017)
- Psychiatria Fennica
- Psykoterapeuttikoulutuksesta apua psykiatripulaan? (2017)
- Lääkärilehti
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