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Petra Boström
Senior Lecturer
Department of PsychologyAbout Petra Boström
Biography
Since 2005 I have been working with research and lecturing at the Department of Psychology. I have a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Gothenburg. I did my undergradutate studies at the Queen’s University of Belfast as well as a few years of studies at the University of Gothenburg in Conflict Management and Social Anthropology.
Teaching
I teach and supervise mainly in qualitative methods and developmental psychology.
Research interests
Children with intellectual disability are seldom included in large-scale surveys of mental health. Together with Malin Broberg and Jakob Åsberg I am working on developing new methods to assess mental health in children in special education classes (särskola). I am particularly interested in the interactions between mental health, peer-relations, family context and school climate. Another focus of my research is on parenthood and the special circumstances of parenting a child with an intellectual disability.
Current research
Presently I am working on developing new methods to assess mental health in children in special education classes and to assess the state of mental health in pupils aged 12-15.
Selected publications
Boström, P. K., Broberg, M., & Bodin, L. (2011). Child's positive and negative impacts on parents - A person-oriented approach to understanding temperament in preschool children with intellectual disabilities. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32(5), 1860-1871.
Boström, P., Broberg, M., & Hwang, C. P. (2010). Different, difficult or distinct? mothers' and fathers' perceptions of temperament in children with and without intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 54(9), 806-819.
Boström, P. K., Broberg, M., & Hwang, P. (2010). Parents' descriptions and experiences of young children recently diagnosed with intellectual disability. Child Care, Health & Development, 36(1), 93-100.
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Assessing emotional blunting in a psychiatric population: Psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the Oxford Depression QuestionnaireODQ-Swedish in a psychiatric
population
Elin Henriksson, Per Fredell, Peter Sand, Petra Boström
Journal of Affective Disorders Reports - 2023 -
Universal support groups for parents of adolescents—a thematic analysis of parents’ requests in terms of content and
form
Karin Thorslund, Ulf Axberg, Petra Boström
Fokus på familien - 2023 -
Patient experience of implant loss after immediate breast reconstruction: An interpretative phenomenological
analysis
Linn Weick, Alice Ericson, Lars Sandman, Petra Boström, Emma Hansson
Health Care for Women International - 2023 -
Parental experiences of having a child with CLN3 disease (juvenile Batten disease) and how these experiences relate to family
resilience
Mattias Krantz, Emma Malm, Niklas Darin, Kalliopi Sofou, Antri Savvidou, Colin Reilly, Petra Boström
Child: Care, Health and Development - 2022 -
Psychiatrists’ Perspectives on Prescribing Psychopharmacological Treatment for Parents With
Depression
Jennifer Strand, Petra Boström, Peter Sand
Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry - 2022 -
Word reading, vocabulary, and mental health problems in adolescent girls and boys with intellectual and developmental
disabilities
Julia Eldblom, Petra Boström, Malin Broberg, Jakob Åsberg Johnels
International Journal of Developmental Disabilities - 2021 -
Exploring co-occurrence of sensory, motor and neurodevelopmental problems and epilepsy in children with severe-profound intellectual
disability
Anna Rensfeldt Flink, Petra Boström, Christopher Gillberg, Paul Lichtenstein, Sebastian Lundström, Jakob Åsberg Johnels
Research in Developmental Disabilities - 2021 -
"I believe it's important for kids to know they have two parents": Parents' experiences of equally shared parental leave in
Sweden
Monica Lidbeck, Petra Boström
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships - 2021 -
Children and parents with psychosis—Balancing between relational attunement and protection from parental
illness
Petra Boström, Jennifer Strand
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing - 2021 -
"I want to know what it is used for": Clients' perspectives on completing a routine outcome measure (ROM) while undergoing
psychotherapy
Sara Börjesson, Petra Boström
Psychotherapy Research - 2020 -
Parents' Perspectives on Adverse Effects of Pharmacological Treatment of Depression on Parental
Functioning
Petra Boström, Nicolina Grundström, Jennifer Strand, Peter Sand
Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry : an International Journal of Critical Inquiry - 2020 -
Parents’ Descriptions of How Their Psychosis Affects
Parenting
Jennifer Strand, Petra Boström, Karin Grip
Journal of Child and Family Studies - 2020 -
Children and Their Parents with
Psychosis
Petra Boström, Jennifer Strand
Nordic Attachment Network, Gothenburg, Sweden - 2019 -
Sometimes the structure around us fails - parenting and
psychosis
Jennifer Strand, Petra Boström, Karin Grip
Nordic Attachment Network, Gothenburg, Sweden - 2019 -
Parenting and
psychosis
Jennifer Strand, Petra Boström, Karin Grip
The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis, Rotterdam - 2019 -
In Search of Themes - Keys to Teaching Qualitative Analysis in Higher
Education
Petra Boström
Qualitative Report - 2019 -
In Search of Themes–Keys to Teaching Qualitative Analysis in Higher
Education.
Petra Boström
Qualitative Report - 2019 -
Self-reported psychological wellbeing in adolescents: the role of intellectual/developmental disability and
gender.
Petra Boström, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Malin Broberg Olsson
Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR - 2018 -
Protection and Restriction: A Mixed Methods Study of Self-reported Wellbeing among Youth with Intellectual
Disabilities
Petra Boström, Malin Broberg
JARID: Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities - 2018 -
Subjective Mental Health, Peer Relations, Family, and School Environment in Adolescents with Intellectual Developmental Disorder: A First Report of a New Questionnaire Administered on Tablet
PCs
Petra Boström, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Maria Thorson, Malin Broberg
Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities - 2016 -
Design for Self-Reporting Psychological Health in Children with Intellectual
Disabilities
Petra Boström, Eva Eriksson
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children - 2015 -
Openness and avoidance–a longitudinal study of fathers of children with intellectual
disability.
Petra Boström, Malin Broberg
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research - 2014 -
Experiences of Parenthood and the Child with an Intellectual
Disability
Petra Boström
2012 -
Child's positive and negative impacts on parents-A person-oriented approach to understanding temperament in preschool children with intellectual
disabilities.
Petra Boström, Malin Broberg, Bodin Lennart
Research in Developmental Disabilities - 2011 -
Parents' descriptions and experiences of young children recently diagnosed with intellectual
disability
Petra Boström, Malin Broberg, Philip Hwang
Child : care, health and development - 2010 -
Different, difficult or distinct? Mothers' and fathers' perceptions of temperament in children with and without intellectual
disabilities
Petra Boström, Malin Broberg, Philip Hwang
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research - 2010 -
Becoming a Parent of a Child with Intellectual
Disability
Petra Boström
2009