Dr. med. Hans Steiner

Clinical Focus

• Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Honors and Awards

• Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association (2003)
• Fellow, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1987)
• Fellow, American Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (1990)
• Outstanding Mentor Award, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1990-3 , 1995-6, 1998-9, 2004)
• Dlin/Fischer Award for Significant Achievement in Clinical Research, American Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (1990)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Psychiatry and Behavioral Science

Community & International Work

• Mental Health in Delinquents, Sacramento 
• Mental Health of Delinquents in Austria, Vienna, Austria 

Industry Relationships

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Research Interests

Dr. Steiner's research is based on developmental approaches to psychopathology which emphasize the conjoint study of normative and non-normative phenomena, and the complex interaction of biological, psychological and social variables in the etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
He has published extensively on the details of this model and has applied it to the study of normal and abnormal aggression, responses to stress and traumatic events, and the mental processes helping people adjust to adversity across the life span.

He is currently investigating the application of psycholinguitsic methods to measure conscious and unconscious mental states, especially emotions and self regulation. He is using computerized text analytic techniques to characterize referential activity, emotional expression, event specific memories and the reconstituting and healing effects of oral and written emotional expression.

He is studying non-clinical and clinical populations with these methods.

Publications

• Habitual response to stress in recovering adolescent anorexic patients. Miller SP, Erickson SJ, Branom C, Steiner H. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2009; 40 (1): 43-54
• External and internal factors influencing happiness in elite collegiate athletes. Denny KG, Steiner H. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2009; 40 (1): 55-72
• Posttraumatic stress disorder following traumatic injury: narratives as unconscious indicators of psychopathology. Hashemi B, Shaw RJ, Hong DS, Hall R, Nelson K, Steiner H. Bull Menninger Clin. 2008; 72 (3): 179-90
• Relationship between defenses, personality, and affect during a stress task in normal adolescents. Steiner H, Erickson SJ, MacLean P, Medic S, Plattner B, Koopman C. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2007; 38 (2): 107-19
• State and trait emotions in delinquent adolescents. Plattner B, Karnik N, Jo B, Hall RE, Schallauer A, Carrion V, Feucht M, Steiner H. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2007; 38 (2): 155-69