Clinical Psychology
The research group CPPI consists of researchers and clinicians from the Department of Psychology. Our research focuses on developmental pathways toward well-being or mental ill health from the perspectives of children, youths, adults, relatives, and professionals. We study the effects of preventive as well as therapeutic interventions, develop new methods, and use both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Research group: Clinical Psychology, Prevention and Intervention from a Lifespan Perspective (CPPI)
Our research area
A common denominator for the research conducted by the CPPI is a focus on living conditions, prevention, and intervention aimed at promoting mental health in children, youth and adults. For instance, we investigate interaction between parents and children as well as between clients and professionals.
Cooperation
Much of our research is conducted in collaboration with stakeholders such as preschools/schools, maternal and child health care, child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, pediatric health care, and social services. Many of our research projects adopt a co-creation approach, actively involving the target groups of our studies – children and adolescents, parents, clients, relatives, and professionals – throughout the entire project lifecycle, with the aim of creating inclusive and well-informed research processes.
Benefits of clinical research
There is a great need to explore the effectiveness of different interventions and treatments currently being used in health care. For example, treatment methods developed and used in other countries need to be translated and evaluated in a Swedish context. Generating knowledge to develop new treatment methods or adapt existing ones is also important. There is a great need to explore the effectiveness of different interventions and treatments currently being used in health care. For example, treatment methods developed and used in other countries need to be translated and evaluated in a Swedish context. Generating knowledge to develop new treatment methods or adapt already existing methods is also important.
The impact of the research
Our research aims to improve the living conditions and mental health in children, adolescents, and adults. Much of the findings in our research is communicated and integrated in the work of authorities and health care, but we also place great emphasis in disseminating knowledge to the public by participating in public discourse.
Our projects
Long-term outcomes and significance of extended home visits for children in disadvantaged areas
Referrals for assessment of neuropsychiatric disabilities within CAMHS in Västra Götaland
Safeguarding Children Subjected to Violence in the Family - Child-Centered Risk Assessments
Members
Associate professors
- Elin Alfredsson
parenting support, prevention, attachment and mentalization, developmental psychopathology, mental health, intervention research - Petra Boström
pediatric psychology, clinical psychology, parenting, resilience, children with intellectual disabilities, mental illness among parents - Anneli Goulding
psychotic disorders - Karin Grip
Attachment, parent support, interpersonal violence, mental health - Johan Hagborg Melander
Children and youth at risk, emotional neglect, trauma - Ole Hultmann
children and adolescents, psychotherapy, trauma, domestic violence, risk assessments in social services - Ann-Sophie Lindqvist Bagge
Addiction, psychological treatment, somatic health, mental health - Pamela Massoudi
young children, trauma, neglect, parent-child interaction, treatment, perinatal mental health - Peter Sand
psychotherapy - Jennifer Strand
serious mental illness, attachment and mentalization, parenting and mental illness, negative effects of treatment - Lina Wirehag Nordh
children as relatives, prevention, parental support, mental illness
Lecturers
- Elin Mårtensson Elmrud
Psychotherapy - Camilla O’keeffe
Psychotherapy, dialectical behavior therapy -
Sara Börjesson
Psychotherapy -
Odd Berg
psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy
PhD Students
- Erik Nilsson
Evidence, psychological treatment - Marja Onsjö
children exposed to violence, psychological treatment, trauma -
Elin Henriksson
child development, parental support and mental health -
Lisa Bäckman
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Elisabeth Bergenmar Ivarsson
pediatric psychology, clinical interventions, chronic disease, child and youth psychology, parental support, family interventions