• Miljøterpi i motvind: En kvalitativ studie av faktorer som er viktige for at miljøterapeuter i barnevernsinstitusjon skal mestre en arbeidshverdag hvor de blir utsatt for aggresjon og vold fra beboere. 

  Vik, Tor-Erik Haagenstad (Master thesis, 2024)

  bakgrunn: Å gi omsorg og behandling til mennesker med fysiske og psykiske plager innebærer en betydelig risiko for å bli utsatt for aggresjon og vold fra de som mottar hjelp. Miljøterapeuter i barnevernsinstitusjoner er ...

• “Breaking a vicious cycle”: the reproduction of ableism in higher education and its impact on students with disabilities 

  Mjøen, Odd Morten; Witsø, Aud Elisabeth; Horghagen, Sissel; Kvam, Lisbeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Introduction: Despite the widespread promotion of inclusive learning environments, students with disabilities have to exert time and effort in gaining accommodations and proving themselves as competent individuals. In ...

• Association between cytokines and suicidality in patients with psychosis: A multicentre longitudinal analysis 

  Hoprekstad, Gunnhild Eldhuset; Skrede, Silje; Bartz-Johannessen, Christoffer; Joa, Inge; Reitan, Solveig Klæbo; Steen, Vidar Martin; Torsvik, Anja; Johnsen, Erik; Kroken, Rune Andreas; Rettenbacher, Maria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Suicide is a common cause of death in all phases of schizophrenia spectrum disorder, particularly in the youngest patients. Clinical measures have demonstrated limited value in suicide prediction, spurring the search for ...

• Exploring the unconventional: health professionals’ experiences into medication-free treatment for patients with severe mental illness 

  Reitan, Elisabeth Cecilie Klæbo; Riley, Henriette; Høifødt, Tordis Sørensen; Iversen, Valentina Maria Do Rosario Cab; Høye, Anne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Background In January 2017, the Norwegian government mandated the establishment of an inpatient unit for “medication-free treatment” for patients with severe mental illness at the University Hospital of North Norway in ...

• Symptoms of the suicide crisis syndrome and therapist emotional responses: associations to self-harm and death by suicide within 18-months post-discharge among patients at an acute psychiatric department 

  Høyen, Karina Sagmo; Prestmo, Astrid; Simpson, Melanie Rae; Cohen, Lisa Janet; Solem, Stian; Medås, Kamilla; Hjemdal, Odin; Vaaler, Arne; Torgersen, Terje (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Background and aims: This study explored the associations between symptoms of the Suicide Crisis Syndrome (SCS) at admission and self-harm and death by suicide post-discharge. The association between clinicians’ emotional ...

• Erfaringer med å delta i lokalpolitisk arbeid - En undersøkelse blant mennesker med langvarig psykisk lidelse 

  Vik, Maria Johansen (Master thesis, 2024)

  Hensikt: Det brukes mye penger på tilrettelagte tiltak og arbeidsrehabilitering i Norge, uten at alternativ slik som deltakelse i ordinært samfunnsliv har blitt undersøkt. Formålet med studien var å undersøke betydningen ...

• The effectiveness and acceptability of the Bergen 4-day treatment for adolescents with OCD: a replication and extension 

  Skjold, Solvei Harila; Hagen, Kristen; Wheaton, Michael G.; Hjelle, Kay Morten; Björgvinsson, Thröstur; Hansen, Bjarne Kristian Aaslie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Background: B4DT is a concentrated treatment format with prolonged sessions of exposure and ritual prevention (ERP) delivered over four consecutive days. Two previous open trials demonstrated promising results of the Bergen ...

• A burden of rare copy number variants in obsessive-compulsive disorder 

  Halvorsen, Matthew W.; de Schipper, Elles; Bäckman, Julia; Strom, Nora I.; Hagen, Kristen; Zayats, Tetyana; Eide, Thorstein Olsen; Noh, Hyun Ji; Morrill, Kathleen; Lichtenstein, Paul; Kähler, Anna Katarina; Höffler, Kira Daniela; Djurfeldt, Diana R.; Chen, Long Long; Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin; Karlsson, Elinor K.; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Wallert, John; Bulik, Cynthia M.; Fundín, Bengt; Landén, Mikael; Kvale, Gerd; Hansen, Bjarne Kristian Aaslie; Haavik, Jan; Mattheisen, Manuel; Rück, Christian; Mataix-Cols, David; Crowley, James J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Current genetic research on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) supports contributions to risk specifically from common single nucleotide variants (SNVs), along with rare coding SNVs and small insertion-deletions (indels). ...

• Insomnia as a predictor of treatment outcomes in adolescents receiving concentrated exposure treatment for OCD 

  Skjold, Solvei Harila; Hagen, Kristen; Wheaton, Michael G.; Kallestad, Håvard; Hjelle, Kay Morten; Björgvinsson, Thröstur; Hansen, Bjarne Kristian Aaslie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Background: Research suggests that individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) frequently experience insomnia. Some previous studies have suggested that insomnia may predict treatment outcomes, but the evidence ...

• Evaluation of health services and treatment alliance among extensively hospitalized patients due to severe self-harm–results from the Extreme Challenges project 

  Langjord, Tuva; Pedersen, Geir Arild Feigum; Bovim, Tone Helene; Bremer, Kjetil; Christensen, Tore Buer; Hove, Oddbjørn; Kildahl, Arvid Nikolai; Mork, Erlend; Norheim, Astrid Berge; Ramleth, Ruth-Kari; Romm, Kristin Lie; Siqveland, Johan; Schønning, Thea; Stänicke, Line Indrevoll; Torgersen, Terje; Pettersen, Mona Irene Skjeklesæther; Tveit, Tone; Urnes, Øyvind; Walby, Fredrik A; Kvarstein, Elfrida Hartveit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Background - Extensive psychiatric hospitalization due to repeated severe self-harm (SH), is a poorly researched area, but a challenge within health services (HS). Recent studies have demonstrated high levels of involuntary ...

• Effect of concentrated exposure and response prevention on symptoms of insomnia 

  Landrø, Nils Eivind Holth; Pryser, Sigurd Holmen; Hagen, Kristen; Hansen, Bjarne Kristian Aaslie; Kvale, Gerd; Solem, Stian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Background: Insomnia symptoms are prevalent among patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This study involved secondary analyses from a previous randomized controlled trial testing if d-Cycloserine (DCS) augmented ...

• Ability of clinical data to predict readmission in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services 

  Koochakpour, Kaban; Westbye, Odd Sverre; Røst, Thomas Brox; Leventhal, Bennett; Koposov, Roman Alexandriovich; Clausen, Carolyn Elizabeth; Skokauskas, Norbert; Nytrø, Øystein; Pant, Dipendra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  This study addresses the challenge of predicting readmissions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) by analyzing the predictability of readmissions over short, medium, and long term periods. Using health ...

• Processes Empowering Disabled Students in the Co-Production of Inclusive Higher Education 

  Bjørnerås, Anita Blakstad; Langørgen, Eli; Witsø, Aud Elisabeth; Kvam, Lisbeth; Nolan, Clodagh; Leithaug, Ann-Elén; Horghagen, Sissel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Although education is supposed to be an empowering process, some students experience the opposite. Disabled university students face multiple discriminating mechanisms during their studies, indicating that they are out of ...

• SHAP value-based ERP analysis (SHERPA): Increasing the sensitivity of EEG signals with explainable AI methods 

  Sylvester, Rebecca Sophia; Sagehorn, Merle; Gruber, Thomas; Atzmueller, Martin; Schöne, Benjamin Joachim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Conventionally, event-related potential (ERP) analysis relies on the researcher to identify the sensors and time points where an effect is expected. However, this approach is prone to bias and may limit the ability to ...

• Points of departure: A qualitative study exploring relational facilitators and barriers in the first treatment session 

  Grindheim, Øyvind Kyrre; Moltu, Christian; Iversen, Valentina Maria do R.Cabral; Mcaleavey, Andrew Athan; Tømmervik, Kristin; Govasmark, Hege; Brattland, Heidi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Objective: To explore how patients and therapists in an outpatient specialized substance use disorder treatment setting experienced the first treatment session, and to identify relational facilitators and barriers seen ...

• Response processes for patients providing quantitative self-report data: a qualitative study 

  Grindheim, Øyvind Kyrre; Mcaleavey, Andrew Athan; Iversen, Valentina Maria Do Rosario Cab; Moltu, Christian; Tømmervik, Kristin; Govasmark, Hege; Brattland, Heidi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Objective: To identify factors that influence response processes for patients providing quantitative self-report data. Secondly, due to the lack of integrative and explanatory models in this area, to develop a model of ...

• Moral distress and protective work environment for healthcare workers during public health emergencies 

  Bondjers, Kristina; Glad, Kristin Alve; Wøien, Hilde; Wentzel-Larsen, Tore; Atar, Dan; Reitan, Solveig Klæbo; Rosseland, Leiv Arne; Zwart, John Anker Henrik; Dyb, Grete Anita; Stensland, Synne Øien Blixt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Background Public health emergencies, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, put great pressure on healthcare workers (HCW) across the world, possibly increasing the risk of experiencing ethically challenging situations (ECS). ...

• Executive functions in older adults with generalised anxiety disorder and healthy controls: Associations with heart rate variability, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and physical fitness. 

  Sirevåg, Kristine; Stavestrand, Silje Haukenes; Specht, Karsten; Nordhus, Inger Hilde; Hammar, Åsa Karin; Molde, Helge; Mohlman, Jan; Endal, Trygve Bruun; Halmøy, Anne; Andersson, Eva; Sjøbø, Trond; Nordahl, Hans Morten; Thayer, Julian F.; Hovland, Anders (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Executive functions (EF) decline with age and this decline in older adults with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) may be influenced by heart rate variability (HRV), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), and physical ...

• BIPOLARVEILEDER – OPPDATERT KUNNSKAP 

  Engum, Anne; Morken, Gunnar; Vaaler, Arne; Langsrud, Knut; Ødegaard, Ketil Joachim; Syrstad, Vigdis Elin Giæver; Aminoff, Sofie Ragnhild; Engen, Magnus Johan; Lyngstad, Siv Hege; Lagerberg, Trine Vik; Andreassen, Ole (Research report, 2024)

• The Relationships between Metacognitive Beliefs and Personality Dysfunction: A Test Controlling for Personality Traits, Emotional Distress Symptoms and General Functioning 

  Strand, Eivind Rauø; Hjemdal, Odin; Nordahl, Hans Morten; Nordahl, Henrik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Personality dysfunction operationalized as impairment in self- and interpersonal functioning is a characteristic of personality disorders. The metacognitive model suggests that dysfunctional metacognitive beliefs are a ...

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