Recovery-oriented psychiatric care
Mental health recovery is about recovering, reclaiming and rediscovering one's life when it has been affected by illness, care and treatment.
One focus of the research conducted in the field of recovery-oriented psychiatric care is to explore, develop and evaluate recovery-oriented approaches and interventions in psychiatric inpatient care. The goal is to contribute to a psychiatric care that is person-centered, strengths-based, collaborative and learning. We are interested in understanding and describing nursing as a reflective practice and investigating how experience-based knowledge can contribute to research and development in psychiatric care. We also conduct research that focuses on issues of competence, learning and education in relation to psychiatric care and related contexts.
The research is conducted in collaboration with national and international academic partners, health care services in regions and municipalities, and organisations that gather and represent people with lived experience of mental illness. The research environment is an important part of the research superstructure for courses and programs at undergraduate and graduate level.
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Current projects
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Safewards - Supporting recovery in psychiatric inpatient care?
Safewards is an explanatory model and intervention program developed in the United Kingdom, aimed at reducing the use of coercive measures in inpatient psychiatric care. The model itself has evolved and increasingly addresses issues of quality and meaning in care in a broader sense. Consequently, qu...
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Nursing as a profession
Nurses are essential in providing high-quality and patient-safe care, where professional integrity and autonomy, as well as a scientifically grounded approach to the profession, are central aspects.
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Nursing in psychiatric inpatient care for persons with severe dissociative states
Persons living with severe dissociative states following trauma experience have been described as a vulnerable group in psychiatric inpatient care which highlights the need for contemporary, person-centered approaches to care in order to prevent retraumatisation and further harm.
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General psychiatric inpatient care for persons with anorexia nervosa
Persons with AN express a desire to be recognized for who they are beyond their illness, while staff often report challenges in engaging with these patients. In general psychiatric inpatient care (GPIC) persons with diverse diagnoses are typically accommodated in the same facility. Consequently, the...
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Digital Games Supporting Young People's Mental Health Recovery in the Nordic Arctic
For mental health services to promote young people's recovery, a youth-friendly practice needs to be established, building on flexibility, therapeutic alliances, trust, and approaches that promote personal recovery. Digital games, especially serious games have been used in different health settings ...
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Developing a model for recovery-oriented post-incident conversations after coercive measures in psychiatric care
Post-incident conversations (PICs), when thoughtfully integrated, can likely serve as a means to address the aftermath of coercive measures, reduce trauma, reestablish trust between patients and healthcare personnel, and reduce the likelihood of future coercion. Recovery-oriented principles such as ...
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Deeply depressed or reasonably distressed? Mental health, associated risk factors, and social needs of women before and after childbirth in Kajiado County, Kenya (MICK-programme)
Women during pregnancy and childbirth are particularly vulnerable to mental health problems and social hardship. This is an international problem which may take different expressions in the different regions of the world. With this project we intend to evaluate mental health problems, associated ris...
Completed projects
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Men's experiences of self-harm
Self-harm among men may be an underreported phenomenon, and masculine norms can contribute to men wh...
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Care in the context of acute mental health problems in unaccompanied minors
Children and young people seeking asylum who arrive in Sweden without parents or other guardians, kn...
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Psychiatric nursing in somatic emergency care (POSA)
People with mental health problems come into contact with somatic emergency care more often than oth...
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Recovery-oriented approaches in psychiatric inpatient care
Staff in inpatient psychiatric care have the opportunity to promote recovery processes in their dail...