Department of Psychososial Health
Recent Submissions
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Gender Incongruence: Youth with a Special Talent for Gender; Supporting Youth and Families
(Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy;, Chapter, 2023)Understandings of gender are undergoing great change. In caring for children and youth experiencing gender incongruence, we reflect over how to create a systemic conversational space in which they, along with their families, ... -
Personal recovery among people with opioid use disorder during treatment with extended-release naltrexone
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background and aims Recovery from substance use disorders (SUD) has traditionally been equated with abstinence. “Personal recovery” however emphasizes recovery as a unique and personal process, supported by changes in ... -
Control of Transition Time by the Likely Future as Signalled from the Past in Children with ASD
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The signaling perspective offers an alternative to the Skinnerian view of understanding behavior. The signaling effects of reinforcers have predominantly been explored in the laboratory with nonhuman subjects. To test the ... -
Parental alcohol intoxication and adverse health outcomes among offspring. A 4-year follow up HUNT study among 2399 Norwegian adolescents
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This study aimed to investigate whether experience of parental alcohol intoxication was associated with adverse health outcomes among adolescents four years later. A population-based Norwegian cohort study of 2399 adolescents ... -
General support versus individual work support: a qualitative study of social workers and therapists in collaboration meetings within individual placement and support
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This study aims to increase understanding of how social workers and therapists contribute to cooperation meetings within the individual placement and support intervention. The individual placement and support model of ... -
Å gjøre "det som er liksom planen da" – en kvalitativ intervjustudie av skolestress blant unge jenter som et strukturelt problem
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Stress blant jenter ser ut til å være knyttet til press om å gjøre det bra på skolen og er videre relatert til psykiske plager. I denne artikkelen undersøker vi hvordan skolestress arter seg i unge jenters hverdagsliv, og ... -
Firstborns buy better for the greater good: Birth order differences in green consumption values
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Despite multiple studies on the role of birth order in shaping human personality, marketing literature has largely neglected its role in shaping consumer behavior. We conducted a high-powered birth-order study on several ... -
‘Health in All Policies’ and the Urge for Coordination: The Work of Public Health Coordinators and Their Impact and Influence in Local Public Health Policies: A Cross-Sectional Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Building heavily on the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach, Norway implemented the Public Health Act in 2012 to reduce social inequalities in health. Local public health coordinators (PHCs) at municipal levels were ... -
The perception of food products in adolescents, lay adults, and experts: A psychometric approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Almost 40% of global mortality is attributable to an unhealthy diet, and adolescents and young adults are particularly affected by growing obesity rates. How do (young) people conceptualize and judge the healthiness of ... -
Epistemic injustice in a parenting support programme for refugees in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In this article, we discuss epistemic injustice in the International Child Development Programme (ICDP), a universalised parenting support programme in Norway that is mandatory for all newly arrived refugees. We show that ... -
Distinguishing the Need to Belong and Sense of Belongingness: The Relation between Need to Belong and Personal Appraisals under Two Different Belongingness–Conditions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)People are frequently caught in the hold between the need to belong and the fear of exclusion. However, these needs might be expressed differently under different belongingness conditions, where other powerful social ... -
Sorterius - An augmented reality app for encouraging outdoor physical activity for people with intellectual disabilities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Many with intellectual disabilities (ID) have difficulties adhering to current physical activity guidelines. The goal of this study was to develop a mobile app for assisting people with ID to be more physically active. We ... -
Association between physical activity, sedentary time, participation in organized activities, social support, sleep problems and mental distress among adults in Southern Norway: a cross-sectional study among 28,047 adults from the general population
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Abstract: Background: Identifcation of modifable factors associated with poor mental health is crucial to develop targeted and efective intervention strategies for prevention of mental distress and illness in the general ... -
Increased Proportion of Comorbidities but no Deterioration of sexual QOL during a 5-year follow-up in Patients with ax-SpA in the biologic Treatment Era
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective. To explore patient perception of sexual quality of life (SQOL), an important category of QOL, in male and female patients with axial SpA (axSpA) after a 5 year follow-up. Methods. A broad spectrum of demographic, ... -
Unngåelse som mestringsarbeid. En kvalitativ studie av jenters håndtering av sosiale utfordringer i skolen
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Mestring er et etablert begrep i arbeidet med å forebygge psykisk uhelse for ungdom. I 2020 kom mestring inn i læreplanen for grunnskolen gjennom det tverrfaglige temaet folkehelse og livsmestring. For å forstå mestring ... -
Sexual Quality of Life in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis in the Biologic Treatment Era
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Objective. To examine the relationship between demographics, disease-related variables, treatment, and sexual quality of life (SQOL) in men and women with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). Methods. AxSpA patients were ... -
Jealousy due to social media? A systematic literature review and framework of social media-induced jealousy
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‘Not at all what I had expected’: Discontinuing treatment with extended-release naltrexone (XR-NTX): A qualitative study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background: Extended-release naltrexone (XR-NTX), an opioid antagonist, has demonstrated equal treatment outcomes, in terms of safety, opioid use, and retention, to the recommended OMT medication buprenorphine. However, ... -
Health-related quality of life in parents of adolescents one year into the COVID-19 pandemic: a two-year longitudinal study
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Possible paths to increase detection of child sexual abuse in child and adolescent psychiatry: a meta-synthesis of survivors’ and health professionals’ experiences of addressing child sexual abuse
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Background: Efforts are directed both towards prevention and early detection of Child sexual abuse (CSA). Yet, only about 50% of CSA survivors disclose before adulthood, and health professionals rarely are the first ...