Academic Affiliation
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo.
Research project
PhD Project: Studies indicate that patients respond differently to treatment. There is a potential for improvement in treatment outcomes if we gain more knowledge about the characteristics of patients who benefit from the treatments we offer, those who do not respond as well, and the methods we can use to allocate patients to the treatment approach they are most likely to benefit from. In this project, we will use data-driven methods to examine if we can enhance treatment outcomes. We will focus on the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD). Based on patient information from a randomized controlled study conducted at the Department of Trauma Disorders and the Department of Anxiety Disorders, we will investigate predictors in patients related to their outcomes in different treatment approaches. We will then combine these predictors into a data-driven model. Subsequently, we will retrospectively test the model on completed treatment courses and examine if the treatment’s effectiveness in regular treatment courses would have been different if the recommendations from the model had been followed. We also aim to prospectively test the model’s utility by making this information available to clinicians making treatment choices.
Research interests
Complex trauma disorders, relational trauma, trauma therapy, treatment optimization, prediction of treatment outcomes, machine learning.
Publications
More publications:
List of all publications from Modum Bad
International Collaborators
Chris Hoeboer, Amsterdam UMC, and Leiden University.
Project team
Peter Sele (Modum Bad),
KariAnne Vrabel (Modum Bad/University of Oslo),
Pål G Ulvenes, Clinical Psychologist, PhD, Head of Department, Modum Bad/University of Oslo
Asle Hoffart (Modum Bad/University of Oslo).
Researchers studying trauma disorder at Modum Bad:
Harald Bækkelund, Ph.D.
Part-time senior researcher, Clinical psychologist
Head of Research at NKVTS, Section for Implementation and treatment research
