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  • Transnuorten masennus: sukupuolenkorjaushoitojen ajoitus ja vaikutukset 
    Viheriävaara, Veera-Maija (2021)
    Transgender youth experience extreme gender incongruence: their gender identities differ from their sex assigned at birth. The number of referrals to gender identity research clinics, where the need of gender-affirming care is assessed, has been growing over the past decade across Europe and North America. According to research, depression is more common among transgender adolescents compared to their peers, who do not experience gender incongruence. Psychiatric problems may make deciding whether to begin gender-affirming medical treatments even more difficult for the healthcare personnel. The aim of this review was to examine how depression among transgender youth and the timing of gender-affirming care are related, and if the prevalence of depression will change after gaining access to gender-affirming care. According to the reviewed literature, an earlier access to gender-affirming care may be associated with a smaller prevalence of depression among transgender youth and after approximately a year of gender-affirming care, depressive symptoms are less common. However, the interpretation of these results is limited due to possible selection bias regarding the research material and the scarce amount of literature in general. More research on the subject is needed, so the growing number of referrals to gender-identity examinations can be handled with evidence-based policies that consider the mental health of these vulnerable youth.
  • Vanhemmuuden yhteys internalisoiviin oireisiin nuoruusiässä: tunnesäätelyn merkitys välittävänä tekijänä 
    Rokka, Oona (2020)
    Objectives. Adolescence is a sensitive period during which the incidence of depression and anxiety symptoms increases. These disorders have been shown to significantly deteriorate functioning ability and the quality of life. In order to design supporting actions, it is important to investigate the factors affecting these disorders and their connections. The review presents research data concerning the connection between parenting and adolescents’ internalizing symptoms, and the meaning of emotion regulation in this connection. The aim is to examine whether emotion regulation mediates the connection between parenting and adolescents’ internalizing symptoms. Methods. Literary research was conducted in the PsychINFO-database using following key words: adolescent, parenting, emotion, emotion regulation, emotion dysregulation, internalizing, internalizing symptoms, internalizing problems, depression, anxiety. The bibliographies of the articles found in the literary research were perused and the most relevant articles were chosen. Finally, the studies with samples consisting of people too young for this review were excluded. The final number of the articles in the review was 13. The age of the examinees ranged from 10 to 33 years. Results and conclusions. There was coherent evidence showing that emotion regulation, parenting and adolescents’ internalizing symptoms are strongly linked to each other. Negative parenting and emotion regulation difficulties were clearly connected to increased internalizing symptoms. The research data differed in whether emotion regulation mediates the relationship between parenting and adolescents’ internalizing symptoms or whether there exists a different mechanism, such as the moderating effect. In addition, there were differences in the studies depending on whether depression and anxiety symptoms were measured separately or together as internalizing symptoms. According to the results, it seems that emotion regulation strategies and parenting factors relating to depression and anxiety are different. In the future it will be important to investigate different emotion regulation strategies and parenting factors in a more versatile manner, and to conduct more longitudinal studies instead of using the cross-sectional design. Moreover, it would be important to use mediation analysis in order to examine the mediating mechanism. The result concerning the connections between parenting, adolescents’ emotion regulation and internalizing symptoms seem to refer that it would be important to reduce harmful emotion regulation strategies and teach adaptive strategies in the prevention and intervention for anxiety and depression disorders. Additionally, it could be important to concentrate on parents’ emotion regulation and emotion socialization. Further studies on these types of interventions is needed.

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