A5003140377- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Cognitive and psychological constructs research
- Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Mental Health Research Topics
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
2016-2025
St Olav's University Hospital
2016-2025
This study investigated the effects of Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS) in adult outpatient treatment at a hospital-based mental health clinic. It also whether differed with timing within 4-year implementation period, clients' initial distress levels, and between therapists. Adult clients (N = 170) were randomized to as usual (TAU) or routine outcome monitoring (ROM). Twenty therapists provided therapy both conditions. Therapy was measured by Behavior Symptoms...
Little is known about the mechanisms through which routine outcome monitoring (ROM) influences psychotherapy outcomes. In this secondary analysis of data from a randomized clinical trial (Brattland et al., 2018), we investigated whether working alliance mediated effect Partners for Change Outcome Monitoring System (PCOMS), ROM system that provides session-by-session feedback on clients' well-being and alliance. Adult individuals (N = 170) referred hospital-based outpatient mental health...
Learning by co-working with experienced therapists is rare in clinical psychologists' education; high working demands services challenge the provision of such situated learning. This study examined feasibility providing an apprenticeship model within ordinary mental health care clinics. The perspectives nine clinicians participating as supervisors were explored through focus-group interviews. Reflexive thematic analysis yielded three themes organized on a continuum from intra- to...
Abstract Background Referrals to specialised mental health care (such as community centres; CMHC) have increased over the last two decades. Patients often multifaceted problems, which cannot only be solved by such care. Resources are limited, and triaging is challenging. A novel method approaches patients early individually upon referral a CMHC—possibly with brief intervention—is an Early assessment Team (EaT). In EaT, therapists meet patient in process seek solve present problem, involving...
Typically, psychotherapy training comprises of didactic approaches and clinical practice under supervision, with students rarely having the opportunity to observe other therapists' work in real time. Many trades professions employ apprenticeship teach new skills. However, it is employed psychotherapist training. This qualitative study was part a pilot that developed tested feasibility an model be used training, investigated how experienced such Ten first-year psychology joined therapists as...
To explore how therapists experience, react to, and learn from negative feedback their clients.Eighteen experienced therapists' written descriptions of episodes where they had received verbal clients were analyzed according to the Consensual Qualitative Research methodology.Receiving was as challenging, but educational. Learning manifested in different ways: (a) Immediately Applied Learning-therapists improved following therapy process by changing behavior with client, (b) Retrospectively...
One approach towards advancing the quality of mental health care is to improve psychotherapists' skills through education and training. Recently, psychotherapy training has benefitted from adapting methods other professions (e.g., deliberate practice). The apprenticeship model a long history in skill trades medicine, but yet be adopted professionals. This study aims investigate impact on clinical psychology students' skills.In pragmatic mixed-methods trial, 120 first year students Master's...
Abstract Background Suffering linked to previous interpersonal trauma is common among patients in mental health care. Diagnostic labels may vary, but the clinical picture often characterized by long-lasting and complex psychological somatic symptoms, subjective distress reduced quality of life. A substantial proportion do not recover after individual treatment ordinary specialized healthcare settings, despite proven usefulness trauma-specific treatments. The therapeutic factors that arise...
In-session processing of emotions is important in facilitating psychotherapeutic change. This study explores how clients active treatment experience inner changes when sharing psychotherapy sessions. The aim was to retrieve in-depth knowledge about clients' moment-by-moment experiences change a naturalistic context.
Objective To explore how patients and therapists in an outpatient specialized substance use disorder treatment setting experienced the first session, to identify relational facilitators barriers seen from both patient therapist perspectives.
Abstract 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, develop a model patients’ can guide what look when considering validity evidence interpreting scores on individual items. Methods Participants ( n = 13) were recruited from specialized substance use disorder treatment clinic interviewed while responding items clinical feedback system...