Niklas Långström

Niklas Långström

Adjunct Professor
Visiting address: CPF, Norra Stationsgatan 69, plan 7, 11364 Stockholm
Postal address: K8 Klinisk neurovetenskap, K8 CPF Högström, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • Professor (adj) and senior consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry, Region Stockholm 20250401-
    Professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, Uppsala University, 2016-2018
    Professor of psychiatric epidemiology, KI, 2010-2016

Research

  • I study developmental pathways, correlates and outcomes of mental disorders primarily in children and young adults. I am particularly interested in causal mechanisms, risk assessment, and the prevention of interpersonal, including sexual, violence.

    And in improving multimodal interventions to support disadvantaged and at-risk children and youth in avoiding adverse outcomes.

    I also work with projects studying incidence, risk factors and outcomes for people in inpatient child and youth psychiatric care (on a ward) with or without coercion. Or in compulsory social care (National Board of Institutional Care) or custodial sanctions due to serious crime (closed youth care or [youth] prison).

    At Karolinska Institutet, I work together with:
    Clinical researchers at the Dept of Clinical Neuroscience/Centre for Psychiatry Research.
    Epidemiologists and biostatisticians at the Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics where I was previously (2010-2016) employed as professor.
    I also collaborate with psychology and psychiatry professionals at:
    Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, Canada
    The University of Southern Denmark
    Aarhus University
    Tampere University, Finland
    Oxford University, UK

Teaching

  • I am subject matter responsible and patient seminar teacher for child- and adolescent psychiatry at KI:s Study Programme in Medicine (swe: Läkarprogrammet) twice per semester.
    And similarly at the child- and adolescent psychiatry subsection of the Study Programme in Speech-Language Pathology (swe: Logopedprogrammet) once yearly.

    I am also course leader and lecturer for the only postgraduate specialist course in Sweden on Disruptive, Impulse Control and Conduct Disorders (swe: Beteendesyndrom) for late-stage resident physicians in child- and adolescent psychiatry (METIS), once every 18 months.
    I founded and am senior advisor to the Swedish network of SAVRY and EARL trainers located at KI/Region Stockholm's Centre for Psychiatry Research and examiner for the training of new trainers. Network teachers provide many 3-day postgraduate trainings yearly in the use of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) and Early Assessment Risk List (EARL) decision-supports. The aim is to improve assessment and management of risks/needs in children (6-12 years) and youth (12-18 years) with known norm-breaking or antisocial behaviour. 
    I am responsible for a research methods course (psychiatric epidemiology) at the Clinical Psychiatry Research School for clinicians in psychiatry (KI - Region Stockholm), 2025-2027.

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Selected grants

Grants

Employments

  • Senior Consultant, Child and adolescent psychiatry, SLSO, Region Stockholm, 2024-
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2025-2029
  • Medical Officer, Child and adolescent psychiatry, National Board of Health & Welfare (Socialstyrelsen), 2019-2024
  • Professor, Child and adolescent psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, 2016-2018
  • Professor, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 2010-2016
  • Senior Researcher Appointed By VR, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2007-2010
  • Researcher, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2004-2007

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2023
  • Docent, Karolinska institutet, 2002
  • Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 1999
  • University Medical Degree, Karolinska Institutet, 1992

Supervision

  • Johanna Lätth, Not decided, though PhD work is related to understanding and preventing sexual abuse through vidence-based treatment of at-risk and criminally convicted individuals.
  • Astrid Moell, To be decided, PhD work is related to compulsory psychiatric care of children and youth: risk factors and outcomes.
  • Henrik Lysell, Suicide and violence in parents - risk factors and consequences.
  • Emma Frans, High paternal age and risk of psychiatric disorders in offspring.
  • Thomas Frisell, Violent crime: Addressing causation with family-based methods.
  • Ulrika Hiscoke, Risk management: The role of clinical factors in violent recidivism.
  • Cecilia Kjellgren, Adolescent sexual offending: Prevalence, risk factors and outcome.
  • Ulrika Haggård Grann, Risk factors and protective factors of violent recidivism among mentally disordered offenders.
  • Gabrielle Sjöstedt, Violent recidivism among sexual offenders: Risk factors and assessment procedures.
  • Martin Lardén, Serious and violent offending: Psychological risk factors and treatment effectiveness.
  • Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Twin and family studies on the development of cognitive and externalizing problems.
  • Vide Ohlsson Gotby, Register-based studies of sex steroid hormones and psychiatric disorders.
  • Amir Sariaslan, Exploring the causal nature of neighborhood influences on violent criminality, substance misuse and psychiatric morbidity.

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