Andre Sourander
andsou@utu.fi +358 29 450 2753 +358 50 365 3447 Itäinen Pitkäkatu 1 Turku ORCID-tunniste: https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0361-7244 |
Child psychiatry, adolescent psychiatry, epidemiology, intervention studies, implementation studies, service-use
Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University. The focus of his work for the last 30 years has been to identify early psychosocial and biological risk factors for the causes of mental health disturbances, as well as to find keys to the development of selective interventions focused on children at risk.
Sourander is principal investigator and co-investigator in several studies and research consortiums. Sourander’s research activity focuses on time trends of psychiatric problems and service use, large birth cohort studies, population-based studies, international multi-site research and intervention studies. He has special expertise in prenatal epidemiology, developmental approaches and investigating the long-term outcome of psychiatric disorders as well as developing clinical methods, family oriented early interventions, RCT and implementation studies of web-based interventions.
Dr. Sourander is responsible for teaching medical students and residents at the Department of Child Psychiatry. He has been the Primary Supervisor of 19 finalized thesis. He is the Primary Supervisor of 6 post-doc researchers and 9 PhD /Dr Med Sc students.
- Association between maternal c-reactive protein levels in pregnancy and growth trajectories of head circumference during the first year of postnatal life – A secondary data analysis of a case-control study on autism (2025)
- Pediatrics and Neonatology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - BePresent Universal Internet-Based Parenting Intervention: Single-Arm Pre-Post Intervention Study (2025)
- Journal of Medical Internet Research
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Bullying victimization among adolescents during the early phase of war in Ukraine : A comparative cross-sectional study in 2016-2017 (2025)
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - (2025)
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental HealthInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Changes in Bullying Experiences and Mental Health Problems Among Adolescents Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic in Greece (2025)
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Cross-national research on adolescent mental health: a systematic review comparing research in low, middle and high-income countries (2025)
- BMJ Global HealthChild and Adolescent Mental Health
(A2 Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä) - Cyberbullying Victimization and Suicide Attempt Among Adolescents: A Cross-National Comparison (2025)
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Editorial Perspective: Prioritizing child and adolescent mental health research in the context of war (2025)
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - (2025)
- Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - (2025)
- Psychological MedicineBMC Psychiatry
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - (2025)
- European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Psychiatric symptoms at age 8 as predictors of specialized health service use for psychiatric disorders in late adolescence and early adulthood: findings from the Finnish Nationwide 1981 Birth Cohort Study2025
- Frontiers in PsychiatryEuropean Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Self-injurious behavior in Greek adolescents: the role of mental health problems and COVID-19 trauma (2025)
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - (2024)
- Children and Youth Services ReviewFrontiers in Psychiatry
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Body dissatisfaction and dieting among Finnish adolescents: a 20-year population-based time-trend study (2024)
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Strengths and Difficulties Self-Report Questionnaire in 12 Asian and European Countries (2024)
- Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryBMC Psychiatry
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Cultural Adaptation, Content, and Protocol of a Feasibility Study of School-Based “Let’s Learn About Emotions” Intervention for Finnish Primary School Children (2024)
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Enrollment and completion rates of a nationwide guided digital parenting program for children with disruptive behavior before and during COVID-19 (2024)
- European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Face-to-face bullying in and outside of schools and cyberbullying are associated with suicidality in Kenyan high school students: a public health issue (2024)
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Itsehoidot, omahoidot ja verkkoterapia lasten ja nuorten mielenterveysongelmien ehkäisyssä ja hoidossa (2024)
- Duodecim
(A2 Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä)