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Maria Zetterqvist

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology with a focus on child and adolescent psychiatric activities.

Research

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The Zetterqvist Lab

Our research group addresses nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) which is a significant mental health issue in adolescents and linked with impairments in emotion regulation. We are dedicated to developing novel approaches for preventing and treating NSSI.

Publications

Publications in DiVA

2026

Gregory J. Lengel, Jennifer J. Muehlenkamp, Maria Zetterqvist, Brooke A. Ammerman, Amy M. Brausch, Jason J. Washburn (2026) Non-suicidal self-injury: proposal to shift designation from disorder to a clinical specifier Lancet psychiatry, Vol. 13, p. 248-254 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2025

Maria Zetterqvist, Michaela Olofsson, Håkan Olausson, Martin P. Paulus, Markus Heilig, Irene Perini (2025) Can you feel it? Altered affective touch perception in a transdiagnostic sample of female adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injury Translational Psychiatry, Vol. 15, Article 516 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Erik Aspeqvist, Laura Korhonen, Örjan Dahlström, Hedvig Andersson, Imke Baetens, Paul Plener, Maria Zetterqvist (2025) Effects of a Whole-School Prevention Program Targeting Mental Health and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Swedish Adolescents: A Cluster-Randomized Experimental Study with Longitudinal Follow-Up Journal of Youth and Adolescence (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

News

Infant in the arms of a doctor.

SEK 10 million for research in children's medicine

The Joanna Cocozza Foundation has announced the recipients of research grants for 2020. Funding has been awarded in the form of establishment and consolidation grants, support for visiting researchers, and a further seven project grants.
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Self-injuring young girls overestimate negative feedback in social media simulation

Adolescent girls who self-injure feel that they receive more negative feedback than they actually receive, and are more sensitive to thumbs down responses, compared to other girls. These are the findings presented by Irene Perini, researcher at CSAN.

Organisation

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Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience - CSAN

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience (CSAN) integrates knowledge and methodology from different areas of basic and clinical neuroscience.

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV)

What characterizes the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV) is the wide breadth of research and education. BKV is one of the largest departments at LiU with affiliation mainly to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

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