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Health Services Research

Collaboration models and community mental health work for young and adults with complex needs (SAMPSYK)

 

Affiliation:
Faculty of Social and Health Sciences
Academic discipline:
Health, sports and welfare

About the research group:

The research group is academically affiliated with the Section for Mental Health Care and Rehabilitation at the Department of Health and Nursing Science at HINN, and collaborates with the National Center for concurrent mental illness and substance misuse (Nasjonal kompetansetjeneste ROP) at Innlandet Hospital Trust. The group focuses on the coordination of mental health services, the integration of services for individuals with complex needs, and the promotion of social inclusion and participation in local communities and society.

 

What we research

Central Themes in the Research Group

  1. Collaboration between the municipality and specialized health services. Understanding how collaboration and coordination of services are perceived and actually carried out, and identifying barriers and facilitators to achieve integrated services (holistic and coordinated).
  2. Utility and effectiveness of collaboration models.
  3. Knowledge about important components to achieve holistic and coordinated services (integrated treatment).
  4. Local mental health work and municipal efforts.
  5. Social belonging and participation in the local community and society at large (citizenship).
  6. Recovery processes and recovery orientation in services (elaboration of the research field).

More about the research group

Ongoing Projects

  1. Research-based evaluation of mental health work in the Valdres region (Valdres model): Organization, locally based services, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
  2. Collaboration model FACT: Organization, implementation, and utility for users (quality of life, use of inpatient facilities in mental health care, meaningful activity, functioning, substance use, and symptom burden).
  3. FACT model for children and youth: Testing, experiences, and utility for young people and their relatives, team members, and collaborators.
  4. Citizenship and inclusion of marginalized groups. Postdoctoral funding from HINN for Ann-Mari Lofthus.
  5. Promoting social inclusion and participation in young adults with complex problems due to mental illness and/or substance abuse. A qualitative study. Ph.D. funding from Sykehuset Innlandet. Silje Nord-Baade, Ph.D. student affiliated with HELVEL.
  6. Experiences from youth receiving treatment and follow-up from the FACT youth collaboration model. A qualitative study of young people's experiences with FACT youth. Marthe Johansen. Ph.D. student affiliated with HELVEL. Stipend funding from HINN.
  7. Evaluation of the Tyrilistiftelsen. Collaboration with Tyrili. Project leader: Hanne Kilen Stuen.
  8. Research-based evaluation of mental health services in Nord-Gudbrandsdalen. Granted funds from the research fund in SI. Starting in January 2024. A doctoral position associated with HELVEL.

Publications

Seminar 14.09.22, Elverum: Medborgerskap og sosial deltakelse i lokalsamfunnet ved professor Michael Rowe, Yale School of Medicine

Read more about the "Medborgerskap" seminar here

Conferences and events

Yale University, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry USA.