KariAnne R. Vrabel

• Research Director, Modum Bad Research Institute
• PhD, Specialist in Psychology, Cand.psychol.

KariAnne R. Vrabel is one of a small group of Eating Disorder researchers in Norway. She examines the longstanding of patients with serious eating disorders that have previously been hospitalized in Modum Bad. In this project she is particularly engaged in comorbid eating disorder and personality disorder, identification of non-responsive and treatment approach to these. She has held many training sessions and workshops on eating disorder phenomenology and treatment approach and has published five scientific articles. KariAnne is a trained psychologist and has been employed at the department for eating disorders, Modum Bad since 1999.

KariAnne R. Vrabel is a PhD and specialist in clinical psychology. Her field of interest is eating disorder, trauma, change mechanism in psychotherapy and children and youth’s mental health. KariAnne Vrabel is a project leader of a randomized controlled trial which compares two different treatment models, hence cognitive-behavioural therapy and compassion-focused therapy for the treatment of eating disorder and childhood trauma. The data collection is finished and scientific work is under preparation.

Phone: +47 32 74 97 00
E-mail: karianne.vrabel@modum-bad.no

Aktuelle lenker:

• The Modum-ED Trial Protocol: Comparing Compassion-Focused Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Treatment of Eating Disorders With and Without Childhood Trauma: Protocol of a Randomized Trial
• An investigation of the process of change in psychopathology and exercise during inpatient treatment for adults with longstanding eating disorders (in press).
• Body composition and physical fitness in women with bulimia nervosa or binge-eating disorder. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eat.22841
• The effect of yoga in the treatment of eating disorders: A single-blinded randomized controlled trial with six months follow-up. http://www.ijoy.org.in/article.asp?issn=0973-6131;year=2018;volume=11;issue=2;spage=166;epage=169;aulast=Karlsen
• Metacognition and Cognition in Inpatient MCT and CBT for Comorbid Anxiety Disorders: A Study of Within-Person Effects. http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-22891-001
• Medfølelse for spiseforstyrrelser. http://www.psykologtidsskriftet.no/index.php?seks_id=502497&a=3
• Klinisk signifikans i praksis. http://www.psykologtidsskriftet.no/index.php?seks_id=501871&a=3
• The PED-t trial protocol: The effect of physical exercise–and dietary therapy compared with cognitive behavior therapy in treatment of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-017-1312-4
• Alliance and symptom improvement in inpatient treatment for eating disorder patients: A study of within-patient processes. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eat.22434
• http://www.ntfe.no/asset/pdf-issues/2013/2013-nr-1.pdf
• Co-occurrence of avoidant personality disorder and child sexual abuse predicts poor outcome in long standing eating disorders. http://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2010-15289-019
• Five-year prospective study of personality disorders in adults with long standing eating disorders. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eat.20662
• Physical activity in treatment units for eating disorders: Clinical practice and attitudes. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03327807
• The course of illness following inpatient treatment of adults with longstanding eating disorders. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eat.20485
• (Eating disorders – How to work with the family?). http://webtools.klapp.no/data/kropp/vedlegg/416_spiseforstyrrelser-hvordanarbeidemedfamilien.pdf

Prosjekter:

Comparing Compassion-Focused Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy in the Treatment of Eating Disorders with and without Childhood Trauma. http://www.modum-bad.no/vil-finne-nokler-til-endring/

Longstanding eating disorders and personality disorders, mediators for 15-years long term outcome. http://www.modum-bad.no/etterlyser-pasienter-forskningsprosjekt/

Eating disorders and childhood trauma: patients’ conceptualization of their illness and subjective experiences of therapeutic change in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy. http://www.modum-bad.no/vil-finne-nokler-til-endring/

Examining change mechanisms in psychotherapy: Towards developing a personalized understanding of the interrelationships between psychological, neurocognitive and biological markers of change. https://app.cristin.no/projects/show.jsf?id=569758

The PED-t trial: The effect of physical exercise–and dietary therapy compared with cognitive behavior therapy in treatment of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. https://www.nih.no/forskning/prosjekter/forskningsprosjekter-ved-nih/behandling-av-spiseforstyrrelser–en-randomisert-kontrollert-prospektiv-studie/

EDA-5 (NO) – Translating and validating the Eating Disorder Assessment for DSM-5 into Norwegian. Samarbeid med Regional avdeling for spiseforstyrrelser (RASP). https://oslo-universitetssykehus.no/avdelinger/klinikk-psykisk-helse-og-avhengighet/psykisk-helse-nasjonale-og-regionale-funksjoner/regional-seksjon-spiseforstyrrelser-rasp

Mindful eating – conscious living. https://nettros.no/mindfuleating/

Prosjekt Perfekt. Perfeksjonisme, komorbiditet og bruk av helsetjenester hos barn og unge. https://uni.no/nb/uni-helse/rkbu-vest/prosjekt-perfekt/

Mental Health and Obesity. The MHOBY trial. https://www.nrk.no/trondelag/ashild-tror-hun-ville-blitt-raskere-frisk-fra-fedmen-med-psykologhjelp-1.14010545

Terje Tilden, PhD.

Senior researcher.
Clinical Social Worker, Family Therapist.

Main interests:
Process and outcome research in couple and family therapy. Change mechanisms in psychotherapy. The basis of knowledge in psychotherapy in general, and in couple and family therapy in particular. Health-economic evaluation. Terje’s clinical affiliation at Modum Bad is the Family Unit.

Terje Tilden completed his doctoral dissertation on couples therapy in October 2010. He was later the project leader and principal investigator of the RCT-project: “Feedback in psychotherapy» where we gained experience with electronic feedback (The STIC feedback system) from clients to therapists at three sites in Norway, including the Family Unit, Modum Bad. The project was financed by The Dam Foundation. After this project was terminated and the STIC system is no longer in use, this has been substituted by the Modum Process Outcome Questionnaire feedback system (MPOQ) at the Family Unit.

The collection of STIC-data was finalized in 2017 and scientific papers are written (see publication list). In addition, two PhDs have been produced from this project, of which Terje was the main supervisor for Rune Zahl-Olsen at ABUP, Sørlandet Sykehus.

Terje is the main supervisor to PhD-student Kristoffer Whittaker based on the Family Unit MPOQ-data. Terje is also the principal investigator for a health-economical evaluation for inpatient treatment at Modum Bad with data from 2013 to 2021.

National collaborating partners:
Avdeling for barn og unges psykiske helse (ABUP), Sørlandet Sykehus, Kristiansand.

International collaborating partners:
Family Institute, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA.

Phone: +47 32 74 98 69
E-mail: terje.tilden@modum-bad.no

Aktuelle lenker:

• Doktorgradsavhandling (2010). The course and outcome of dyadic adjustment and individual distress during and after residential couple therapy. Dissertation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. https://www.nfft.no/media/1260/terje-tilden-dravhandling.pdf
• Tilden, T. (2014). Parterapi. I: L. E. O. Kennair og R. Hagen (red.): Psykoterapi. Kapittel 15, (s. 267-283). Gyldendal Akademisk. https://www.ark.no/boker/Leif-Edward-Ottesen-red-Kennair-Psykoterapi-9788205458536
• Tilden, T. (2017). Forskning på parterapi. (Kapittel 7 s. 93-108), og Kognitiv parterapi. (Kapittel 27 s. 399-408).  I: Ottar Ness (red.), Parterapi. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget. https://www.ark.no/boker/Ottar-Ness-Handbok-i-parterapi-9788245022063
• Tilden, T. (2017). Kognitiv parterapi. I: Ottar Ness (red.), Parterapi. (Kapittel 27 s. 399-408). Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
• Tilden, T. (2017). How do I know whether my efforts are helpful for the client? Implementing feedback in Norway. I: T. Tilden og B. Wampold (red.), Routine outcome monitoring in couple and family therapy – The empirical informed therapist. (Kapittel 1 s. 3-13). Cham, Sveits: Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319506746
• Barstad, B., Opstvedt, H., & Tilden, T. (2017). Empirically informed therapy conducted at the Family Unit at Modum Bad. I: T. Tilden og B. Wampold (red.), Routine outcome monitoring in couple and family therapy – The empirical informed therapist. (Kapittel 9 s. 173-187). Cham, Sveits: Springer.
• Håland, Å. T. & Tilden, T. (2017). Lessons learned from the implementation of a feedback systems in couple and family therapy.  I: T. Tilden og B. Wampold (red.), Routine outcome monitoring in couple and family therapy – The empirical informed therapist. (Kapittel 12 s. 211-224). Cham, Sveits: Springer. Springer.
• Tilden, T. & Wampold, B. E. (2017). Epilogue.  I: T. Tilden og B. Wampold (red.), Routine outcome monitoring in couple and family therapy – The empirical informed therapist. Springer. (Kapittel 16 s. 283-287). Cham, Sveits: Springer.
• Tilden, T. (2017). Kunnskapsmangfold høres fint ut – uansett? Psykologisk.no 10. mars 2017.  Hentet fra Internett 11.12.2017: https://psykologisk.no/2017/03/kunnskapsmangfold-hores-fint-ut-uansett/
• Toft, H, Lien, L., Neupane, S. P., Tilden, T., Wampold, B., Bramness, J. G. (2017). PTSD patients in treatment show increasing cytokine levels despite of symptom relief. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 66, Supplement, November, page e12, doi: 10.1016.j.bbi.2017.07.055.

• Tilden, T., & Barstad, B. (2018): The Family Unit at Modum Bad. I: J. Lebow, A. Chambers, and D. C. Breulin (eds.), Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Theapy. Springer International Publishing. Doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_625-1.
• Tilden, T. (2018). Das Tandem-Projekt in Modum Bad. Ein Erfahrungsbericht über die Integration von Forschung in die klinische Praxis. Familiendynamik 320-330, Doi: 10.21706/fd-43-4-320
• Tilden, T. & Johnsen, A. (2018). Familieterapi i voksenpsykiatri: Dilemmaer og muligheter. Fokus på familien, 46(3), 169-170. Doi: 10.18261/issn.0807-7487-2018-03-01.
• Toft, H., Neupane, S. P., Bramness, J. G., Tilden, T., Wampold, B. E., & Lien, L. (2018). The effect of trauma and alcohol on the relationship between levels of cytokines and depression among patients entering psychiatric treatment. BMC Psychiatry 18:95. Doi: 10.1186/s12888-018-1677-z.
• Toft, H., Bramness, J. G., Lien, L.., Abebe, D. S., Wampold, B. E., Tilden, T., Hestad, K., & Neupane, S. P. (2018). PTSD patients show increasing cytokine levels during treatment despite reduced psychological distress. BNeuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 14, 2367-2378. Doi: 10.2147/NDT.S173659.
• Tilden, T. (2019). Kognitiv familieterapi. I: L. Lorås og O. Ness (red.) Håndbok i familieterapi. Kapittel 27 (s. 369-381). Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
• Tilden, T., og Evenseth, M. S. (2019). Systematiske tilbakemeldinger i familieterapi. I: L. Lorås og O. Ness (red.) Håndbok i familieterapi. Kapittel 5 (s. 61-69). Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
• Toft, H., Lien, L., Neupane, S. P., Abebe, D. S., Tilden, T., Wampold, B. E., & Bramness, J. G., (2019). Cytokine concentrations are related to level of mental distress in inpatients not using anti-inflammatory drugs. Acta Neuropsychiatrica. Doi: 10.1017/neu.2019.36.

• Zahl‐Olsen, R., Håland, Å. T., Gausel, N., Wampold, B., & Tilden, T. (2019). Change in work functioning from pre‐ to post‐treatment in feedback‐informed Couple and Family Therapy in Norway. Journal of Family Therapy, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12283
• Zahl-Olsen, R., Gausel, N., Zahl-Olsen, A., Bertelsen, T. B.,  Haaland, Å. T., & Tilden, T. (2019). Physical couple and family violence among clients seeking therapy: identifiers and predictors. Frontiers Psychology – Psychology for Clinical Settings, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02847

• Tilden, T., Theisen, M., Wampold, B. E., Johnson, S. U., & Hoffart, A. (2020). Individual distress and dyadic adjustment over the course of couple therapy and three-years follow-up: A replication study. Psychotherapy Research, 30(3), 375-386. Doi:10.1080/10503307.2019.1645369
• Tilden, T., Wampold, B. E., Ulvenes, P., Zahl-Olsen, R., Hoffart, A., Barstad, B., Olsen, I. A., Gude, T., Pinsof, W. M., Zinbarg, R. E., Nilssen, H. H., & Håland, A. T. (2020). Feedback in couple and family therapy: A randomized clinical trial. Family Process, 59(1), 36-51, doi:10.1111/famp.12485.Tilden, T. (2020). The idiographic voice in a nomothetic world. Why client feedback is essential in our professional knowledge.  I: M. Ochs, M. Borcsa, og J. Schweitzer (red.), Systemic research in individual, couple, and family therapy and counseling.  Springer. (s. 385 – 399). Cham, Sveits: Springer.

• Tilden, T., og Barstad, B. (2020). Familieterapi. I M. T. Gonzales (red.) Psykiske lidelser – faglig forståelse og terapeutisk tilnærming. Sykepleiefaglige og flerfaglige perspektiver (s. 390-390). Oslo: Gyldendal.
• Toft, H. P., Lien, L., Neupane, S. P., Abebe, D. S., Tilden, T., Wampold, B. E., & Bramness, J. G. (2020). Cytokine concentrations are related to level of mental distress in inpatients not using anti-inflamatory drugs. Acta Neuropsychiatrica. 32(1): 23-31. DOI:. 10.1017/neu.2019.36
• Johnson, S. U., Hoffart, A., Tilden, T., Toft, H., Neupane, S. P., Lien, L., & Bramness, J. G. (2020). Circulating cytokine levels in the treatment of comorbid anxiety disorders. Acta Neuropsychiatrica, First View , pp. 1 – 7, https://doi.org/10.1017/neu.2020.38.
• Toft, H., Bramness, J., Tilden, T., Bolstad, I., and Lien, L. (2021) Persistent level of mental distress in PTSD patients is not reflected in cytokine levels 1 year after the treatment. Acta Neuropsychiatrica 1–7. doi: 10.1017/ neu.2021.11
• Tilden, T., Johnson, S. U., Hoffart, A., Zahl-Olsen, R., Wampold, B. E., Ulvenes, P., & Håland, Å. T. (2021). Alliance predicting progress in couple therapy. Psychotherapy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000355
• Tilden, T., Ulvenes, P.,  Zahl‐Olsen, R., Hoffart, A., Johnson, S. U., Wampold, B. E., Håland, Å. T. (2021). Predicting change through individual symptoms and relationship distress: A study of within‐ and between‐person processes in couple therapy
  Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, DOI: 10.1002/cpp.2575.
• Whittaker, K. J., Johnson, S. U., Solbakken, O. A., Wampold, B., & Tilden, T. (2021). Childhood trauma as a predictor of change in couple and family therapy: A study of treatment response. Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cfp0000181
• Tilden, T., & Ulvenes, P. G. (2021). Bruk av tilbakemeldingssystem. I: P-E. Binder, L.  Lorås, og F. Thuen (red.), Håndbok i individualterapi (s. 73-88). Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
• Tilden, T., & Vrabel, KA. (2021). Fellesfaktorer i psykoterapi. I: P-E. Binder, L. Lorås, og F. Thuen (red.), Håndbok i individualterapi (s. 89-103). Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
• Zahl-Olsen, R., Håland, Å. T., & Tilden, T. (2021). Data on the individual problems and strengths scale from the systemic therapy inventory of change. Clinical samples from Norway. Data in Brief (39), December, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.107577

Asle Hoffart

Professor, PhD, specialist in clinical psychology

Affiliation:
Senior researcher at the Research Institute, Modum Bad Psychiatric Center, Norway and part-time professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway

Professional interests:
Psychotherapy research, mechanism of therapeutic change, anxiety disorders and PTSD, a network approach to psychopathology.

National collaboration:
Researcher in the projects LIST, Lavintensitets kognitiv atferdsterapi for angstproblemer hos ungdom og INTROMAT, INTROducing Mental health through Adaptive Technology, both supported by the Norwegian Research Council. Member of the board of the project National Implementation of PTSD treatment at the National Competence Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress, of the reference group for the project Improved Access to Psychological Therapies at the Institute of Public Health, and of the Quality Panel in the Norwegian Psychological Association.

International collaboration:
About the treatment of complex PTSD with Elizabeth Hembree, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Phone: +47 32 74 986
E-mail: asle.hoffart@modum-bad.no

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS, LAST 5 YEARS:

• Hoffart, A. (2017). Short-term efficacy of psychological and psychopharmacological interventions for panic disorder appears not to be different. Evidence-Based Mental Health. July 3. doi: 10.1136/eb-2017-102626
• Hoffart, A., Johnson, S. U. (2017). Psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapies are more different than you think: Conceptualizations of mental problems and consequences for studying mechanisms of change. Clinical Psychological Science, 5, 1070-1085. doi: 10.1177/2167702617727096
• Irgens, A. C., Hoffart, A., Nysæter, T. E., Haaland, V. Ø., Borge, F-M., Pripp, A. H., Martinsen, E. W., Dammen, T. (2017). Thought field therapy compared to cognitive behavioral therapy and wait-list for agoraphobia: A randomized, controlled study with a 12-month follow-up. Frontiers in Psychology. June 20. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01027
• Johnson, S. U., Hoffart, A., Nordahl, H. M., Ulvenes, P. G., Vrabel, K., Wampold, B. E. (2017). Metacognition and cognition in inpatient MCT and CBT for comorbid anxiety disorders: A study of within-person effects. Journal of Counseling Psychology. May 25. doi: 10.1037/cou0000226
• Johnson, S. U., Hoffart, A., Nordahl, H. M., Wampold, B. E. (2017). Metacognitive therapy versus disorder-specific CBT for comorbid anxiety disorders: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 50, 103-112. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2017.06.004
• Langkaas, T. F., Hoffart, A., Øktedalen, T., Ulvenes, P. G., Hembree, E. A., Smucker, M. (2017). Exposure and non-fear emotions: A randomized controlled study of exposure-based and rescripting-based imagery in PTSD treatment. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 97, 33-42. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2017.06.007
• Sunde, T., Walseth, L. T., Himle, J. A., Vogel, P. A., Launes, G., Haaland, V. Ø., Hoffart, A., Johnson, S. U., Haaland, Å. T. (2017). A long-term follow-up of group behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder in a general outpatient clinic in Norway. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 14, 59-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jocrd.2017.06.002
• Hoffart, A.; Borge, F-M.; Clark, D. M. (2016). Within-person process-outcome relationships in residential cognitive and interpersonal psychotherapy for social anxiety disorder: A reanalysis using disaggregated data. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 7, 671-683.
• Hoffart, A.; Oktedalen, T; Ulvenes, P.G.; Johnson, S. U. (2016). The Mobility Inventory for Agoraphobia Avoidance Alone Scale: Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of Subscales. Assessment, doi: 10.1177/1073191116659739.
• Hoffart, A.; Hedley, L. M.; Svanøe, K.; Langkaas, T. F.; Sexton H. (2016). Agoraphobia with and without panic disorder. A 20- year follow-up of integrated exposure and psychodynamic therapy. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 204, 100-107.
• Hoffart, A. (2016). Cognitive models for panic disorder with agoraphobia: A study of disaggregated within-person effects. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 84, 839-844.
• Hoffart, A.; Hedley, L. M.; Svanøe, K. L.; Sexton, H. (2016). Cognitive and guided mastery therapies for panic disorder with agoraphobia: 18-year long-term outcome and predictors of long-term change. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 23, 1-13.
• Lunding, S. H.; Hoffart, A. (2016). Perceived parental bonding, early maladaptive schemas and outcome in schema therapy of Cluster C personality problems. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 23, 107-117.
• Hoffart, A. (2015). Betydningen av intensjonale og funksjonelle forklaringer for utvikling av klinisk ekspertise. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening; 52, 1056-1065.
• Hoffart, A.; Øktedalen, T.; Langkaas, T. F. (2015). Self-compassion influences PTSD symptoms in the process of change in trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapies: a study of within-person processes. Frontiers in Psychology.
• Hoffart, A.; Øktedalen, T.; Svanøe, K. L.; Hedley, L. M.; Sexton, H. (2015). Predictors of short- and long-term avoidance in completers of inpatient group interventions for agoraphobia. Journal of Affective Disorders; 181, 33-40.
• Mörtberg, E.; Hoffart, A.; Boecking, B.; Clark, D. M. (2015). Shifting the focus of one’s attention mediates improvement in cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy; 43, 63-73.
• Øktedalen, T.; Hoffart, A.; Langkaas, T. F. (2015). Trauma-related shame and guilt as time-varying predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms during imagery exposure and imagery rescripting—A randomized controlled trial. Psychotherapy Research, 25, 518-532.
• Berggraf, L.; Ulvenes, P. G.; Øktedalen, T.; Hoffart, A.; Stiles, T.; McCullough, L.; Wampold, B. E. (2014). Experience of affects predicting sense of self and others in Short-Term Dynamic and Cognitive Therapy. Psychotherapy, 51, 246-257.
• Berggraf, L.; Ulvenes, P. G.; Hoffart, A.; McCullough, L.; Wampold, B. E. (2014).
• Growth in sense of self and sense of others predicts reduction in interpersonal problems in short-term dynamic but not in cognitive therapy. Psychotherapy Research, 24, 456-469.
• Fentz, H. N.; Arendt, M.; O’Toole, M. S.; Hoffart, A.; Hougaard, E. (2014). The mediational role of panic self-efficacy in cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 60, 23-33.
• Hoffart, A. (2014). The need to study within-person processes in psychotherapy: A discussion of alliance studies. Symbiosis Online Publishing Psychology.
• Hoffart, A., & Hoffart, A. R. (2014). Do general therapy change principles represent causal relationships? Journal of psychotherapy integration, 24, 280-283.
• Hoffart, A.; Hoffart, A. R. (2014). Psychotherapy integration through general therapy change principles: Missing the core of psychotherapy? Journal of psychotherapy integration.
• Ulvenes, P. G.; Berggraf, L.; Wampold, B. E.; Hoffart, A.; S., T. C.; McCullough, L. (2014).
• Orienting patient to affect, Sense of self, And the activation of affect over the course of psychotherapy with cluster C patients. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 61, 15-324.
• Øktedalen, T.; Hagtvet, K. A.; Hoffart, A.; Langkaas, T. F.; Smucker, M. (2014).
• The Trauma Related Shame Inventory: Measuring Trauma-Related Shame Among Patients with PTSD. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment; 36, 600-615.
• Øktedalen, T.; Hoffart, A.; Langkaas, T. F. (2014). Traume-related shame and guilt as time-varying predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms during imagery exposure and imagery rescripting – A randomized controlled trial. Psychotherapy Research.
• Bonsaksen, T.; Borge, F. M.; Hoffart, A. (2013) Group Climate as Predictor of Short- and Long-Term Outcome In Group Therapy for Social Phobia. International journal of group psychotherapy, 63, 394-417.
• Fentz, H. N.; Hoffart, A.; Jensen, M. B.; Arendt, M.; O’Toole, M. S.; Rosenberg, N. K.; Hougaard, E. (2013). Mechanisms of change in cognitive behaviour therapy for panic disorder: The role of panic self-efficacy and catastrophic misinterpretations. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 51, 579-587.
• Hoffart, A.; Langkaas, T. F. (2013). Emosjon og kognisjon i kognitiv terapi. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 50, 752-758.
• Hoffart, A.; Øktedalen, T.; Langkaas, T. F.; Wampold, B. E. (2013). Alliance and Outcome in Varying Imagery Procedures for PTSD: A Study of Within-Person Processes. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 60, 471-482.

Maren C. G. Kopland

Psychologist, PhD-candidate.

Academic Affiliation:
Doctoral candidate at the psychological institute, University of Oslo.

Research interests:
Eating disorders, childhood trauma, mechanisms of change in therapy, self-compassion as a mechanism of change in eating disorder patients. Kopland has worked in specialised inpatient unit for eating disorder treatment for several years.

Eating disorders rank among the 10 leading causes of disability among young women and the recovery rate is as low as 50%. Studies have shown that patients with a history of childhood trauma are overrepresented among those who do not recover from inpatient treatment. The PhD-project is a part of a larger randomised controlled study investigating how patients with or without childhood trauma responds to either compassion focused therapy (CFT) or cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

Collaboration:
KariAnne Vrabel (Modum Bad, University of Oslo), Asle Hoffart (Modum Bad/University of Oslo), Sverre Urnes Johnson (University of Oslo/Modum Bad).

Phone: +47 32 74 94 19
E-mail: maren.kopland@modum-bad.no

Pål Ulvenes

PhD, Psychologist

Pål Ulvenes finished his Cand. Psychol from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2009. He has been an intern at the unit for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy at Modum Bad.

He is a doctoral candidate at the research institute on the Process Mapping study investigating psychotherapy process and common factors underlying different therapy orientations. Throughout his education Pål has been interested in Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, addiction treatment and process research. His graduate thesis studied new affective learning as a common factor in psychotherapy, and will be presented at the Society for Psychotherapy Research Conference 2009.

Research Interests:
Psychotherapy process research. Addiction. Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.

Phone: +47 32 74 97 00
E-mail: pal.ulvenes@modum-bad.no

• Moving the mountain: Making psychotherapy process research time and cost effective.

Sverre Urnes Johnson

Phd and clinical psychologist

Positions: Researcher, Modum Bad
Clinical supervisor, Modum Bad

Education:
Cand.psychol, NTNU 2010
PhD, UIO, 2018.

Supervisor in cognitive therapy, 2015
Approved Level 2 Therapist in Metacognitive Therapy 2014

Main professional interests:
Johnson is interested in how the effectiveness of psychatric treatments can be improved and what the mechanisms of change are. He has been, and is involved in several treatment studies. Key interests include treatment of anxiety disorders, metacognitive therapy, process outcome research, CBT and technological innovations in mental health care. Johnson also has an interest in statistics and has expertise in network-analysis and multilevel modeling.
Cooperation
Nationally:
Hans M. Nordahl – Professor NTNU
Ole Andre Solbakken – Professor, UIO
Jan Vegard Bakali – Psychologist and Researcher, Lovisenberg DPS
Marianne Skogbrott Birkeland – Senior Researcher, NKVTS
Tine Nordgreen – Associate Professor, UIB

International:
Adrian Wells – Professor, University of Manchester

Telephone: +47 32 74 97 00
E-mail: sverre.johnson@modum-bad.no

Publications:

•  Johnson, S. U., Hoffart, A., Nordahl, H. M., Ulvenes, P. G., Vrabel, K., & Wampold, B. E. (2018). Metacognition and cognition in inpatient MCT and CBT for comorbid anxiety disorders: A study of within-person effects. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 65(1), 86-97. doi: 10.1037/cou0000226
•  Johnson, S. U., Hoffart, A., Nordahl, H. M., & Wampold, B. E. (2017). Metacognitive therapy versus disorder-Specific CBT for comorbid anxiety disorders: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 50, 103-112. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2017.06.004
• Hoffart, A., & Johnson, S. U. (2017). Psychodynamic and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies Are More Different Than You Think: Conceptualizations of Mental Problems and Consequences for Studying Mechanisms of Change. Clinical Psychological Science, 5(6), 1070-1086. doi: 10.1177/2167702617727096
• Langkaas, T. F., Johnson, S. U., Stenshorne, K., Collin-Tiller, C., Vrabel, K. (2017) Klinisk signifikans i praksis. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 54(12), 1160-1167.
• Sunde, T., Walseth, L. T., Himle, J. A., Vogel, P. A., Launes, G., Haaland, V. Ø., Hoffart. A., Johnson, S. U., & Haaland, Å. T. (2017). A long-term follow-up of group behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder in a general outpatient clinic in Norway. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 14, 59-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jocrd.2017.06.002
• Johnson, S. U., & Hoffart, A. (2016). Metacognitive Therapy for Comorbid Anxiety Disorders: A Case Study. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(1515). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01515
• Johnson, S. U., Hoffart, A., Havik, O. E., & Nordgreen, T. (2016). A survey of clinical psychologists’ attitudes toward treatment manuals. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 47(5), 340-346. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pro0000108
• Hoffart, A., Øktedalen, T., Ulvenes, P., & Johnson, S. U. (2016). The Mobility Inventory for Agoraphobia Avoidance Alone Scale: Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of Subscales. Assessment, 0(0), 1073191116659739. doi: 10.1177/1073191116659739
• Hagen, R., Johnson, S. U., Rognan, E., & Hjemdal, O. (2012). Mot en felles grunn: En transdiagnostisk tilnærming til psykologisk behandling. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 2012, 49(3), 247-252.

Books:

• Johnson, S. U., Vik, J. S, Hoffart, A. (2015). Panikklidelse og agorafobi. In Berge, T. & Repål, A. (Eds.). Håndbok i kognitiv terapi (99-114), 2ed. Oslo. Gyldendal Akademisk.
• Hoffart, A., Johnson, S. U., Langkaas, T. F., Hedley, L. M., Hvidsten, M., & Rasmussen, A (2013). Betydningen av spesifikke faktorer i behandling av angstlidelser. I Kvale. G., Havik, O. E., Heiervang, E. R., Haugland, B. S. M., & Tangen, T. (Eds). Hvordan sikre angstpasienter kunnskapsbasert behandling? Oslo. Universitetsforlaget.

Kari Halstensen

Psychologist, four year program in economics and business administration consisting of three years at the bachelor/ undergraduate level and one year at the master /graduate level, group psychotherapist, PhD candidate.

Academic affiliation:
The Theology (MF)

Research interests:
Psychology of Religion, psychodynamic theory and therapy, research on psychodynamic therapy, psychoanalysis, attachment theory, attachment research, group processes, group analysis, cost/ benefit research, organizational psychology, hermeneutics, personality disorders.
Kari Halstensen has worked as a clinician in the VITA group since 2005. Since 2008 she has been developing a PhD project aimed at investigating what might be relevant factors in the VITA model. The VITA model is an internally developed treatment program for patients who self-define faith and/ or existential issues as part of their mental disorder. The model is described in the doctoral thesis of specialist psychologist Gry Stålsett from 2012. Stålsett’s research has also proven the VITA model’s positive treatment effect. Halstensen’s research is aimed at trying to identify possible factors contributing to this treatment effect. Specifically, she will look at whether patients who have undergone the VITA treatment get changed connection quality which is measured by the Adult Attachment Interview and / or changed mentalizing capacity measured as reflective functioning.

Telefon: 32 74 97 00

Epost: kari.halstensen@modum-bad.no

Hanna Punsvik Eielsen

Psychologist, PhD-candidate.

Academic Affiliation:
Doctoral candidate at the psychological institute, University of Oslo.

Research interests:
Eating disorders, recovery, trauma, personality disorders, longitudinal studies.
Eating disorders rank among the 10 leading causes of disability among young women, and anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of all mental disorders. Treatment studies have shown that full recovery is possible, but quite a large group continue to be strongly impaired in their daily living. Considering the fact that approximately 50 % experience relapse also highlights the need for a better definition of recovery and well-being.

The prospective longitudinal study I am currently a part of, examines patients that received treatment at the inpatient clinic at Modum Bad from 1998 to 2001. Diagnostic interviews were conducted 1, 2, 5 and 17 years after discharge. The aim is to increase understanding of the course and outcome of adults with longstanding eating disorders, and identify subgroups with various trajectories. Investigating comorbidity is another topic, especially focusing on the course of personality disorders among this group of patients. Furthermore, we aim to identifying predictors of poor outcome in patients with longstanding eating disorder. Child sexual abuse is assumed to be an important factor, effecting the course and severity of the eating disorder.

Collaboration:
KariAnne Vrabel (Modum Bad), Asle Hoffart (Modum Bad/University of Oslo), Øyvind Rø (RASP, Oslo University Hospital), Jan Rosenvinge (University of Tromsø).

The research is funded by Norwegian Women`s Public Health Association: https://www.sanitetskvinnene.no/sanitetskvinnene/english/

Phone: +47 32 74 94 19

E-mail: hanna.eielsen@modum-bad.no

Ingvild Finsrud

Psychologist, PhD- candidate

Ingvild Finsrud is currently in The National Program for Integrated Clinical Specialist and PhD-training for Psychologists, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo and Modum Bad.
PhD Project

The PhD project is a naturalistic process-outcome study situated at Modum Bad. The project investigates change processes in patients primarily treated for depression, anxiety, eating disorders, or psychological trauma. The patients receive different treatment models: cognitive behavioral therapy, metacognitive therapy, compassion focused therapy, stabilizing therapy, short-term dynamic therapy, existential therapy, or family therapy. I use a measurement that includes measures of symptoms, common factors and therapy-specific change processes (affects, cognitions, metacognitions, and self-compassion). The aim of the project is to investigate interactions between symptoms, common factors and therapy-specific processes, and how these (potential) interactions are related to treatment model and patient characteristics.

Academic interests:
• Psychotherapy research
• Therapist effects and therapist development
• Measurement in psychotherapy

Telephone: +47 32 74 98 60

Peter Sele

Specialist in clinical psychology, PhD-candidate

Academic affiliation:
Institute of Psychology, Oslo University

Topics of interest:
Complex trauma disorders following childhood relational trauma, attachment theory, dynamic therapy, phase-based trauma therapy, trauma-focused therapy and sensorimotor psychotherapy. Sele is currently on research leave from his position as a clinical psychologist at the Trauma Department, Modum Bad.

PhD-project:
The CPTSD-study at Modum Bad compares three alternative treatments for Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Trauma-focused therapy is well established as the firstline choice of treatment for PTSD. Treatment options for Complex PTSD following childhood trauma is more debated and different treatment alternatives have been proposed, like stabilization and phase-based treatments, and these have also been found to be useful. As of today, no studies have been conducted where these treatments are compared directly to trauma-focused therapy. Any additional gain from such treatment adaptations is therefore unknown. The CPTSD-study aims at shedding light on this issue and to provide clinically useful knowledge on change processes in trauma therapy. The project is a randomised, controlled study where 96 patients suffering from Complex PTSD are allocated to three structured and manual-based treatment options; a) Prolonged Exposure, b) Skills Training in Affect and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR) or, c) Phase-based treatment (STAIR followed by adapted trauma-focused therapy).

Project group:
Peter Sele, PhD-candidate
Asle Hoffart, project leader and co-supervisor
Tuva Øktedalen, main supervisor

International collaboration:
Elizabeth Hembree, Penn State University, USA
Marylène Cloitre, Stanford University, USA

Publications:
Vaskinn, A., Sele, P., Larsen, F. A. E & Dal, A. (2011). Talk is not cheap: a narrative approach to the successful discharge of a ‘dangerous male with schizophrenia’ from a medium security ward. Clinical Case Studies, 13, 247–258.

Publikasjoner:

• Vaskinn, A., Sele, P., Larsen, F. A. E & Dal, A. (2011). Talk is not cheap: a narrative approach to the successful discharge of a ‘dangerous male with schizophrenia’ from a medium security ward. Clinical Case Studies, 13, 247–258.

Mikkel Eielsen

MD, PhD-candidate

Academic affiliation:
UIO Institute of Clinical Medicine

Main interests:
Process and outcome research in persistent depressive disorder, affects in psychotherapy, short-term dynamic psychotherapy, deliberate practice.

PhD-project:
The PhD study is a naturalistic process-outcome study that will investigate mechanisms of change trough the course of treatment of persistent depressive disorder (PDD).
Specifically, this study will focus on the interrelationship between contextual and psychological factors in therapy, and how it relates to outcome. This is a subproject of the larger RCT study Depression Forefront (Dfront), which examine the treatment of PDD, compare different treatment modalities, and investigate therapeutic change mechanisms.

Collaboration:
Pål Ulvenes, Modum Bad; Jan Ivar Røssberg, UiO; Linne Melsom, Modum Bad; Andreas Høstmælingen, RBUP; Helene Niessen-Lie (UiO).

 Linne Melsom

PhD candidate, specialist in clinical psychology

Academic affiliation:
Department of psychology, University of Oslo.

Topic of interests:
Psychotherapy research, process outcome research, affects in psychotherapy, contextual factors, short-term dynamic therapy, complex trauma and depression.

Research project:
The PhD study is a naturalistic process-outcome study that will investigate mechanisms of change trough the course of treatment of persistent depressive disorder (PDD). Specifically, this study focus on the interrelationship between psychological (i.e. specific and general affects) and contextual and psychological factors in therapy, and how these relates to outcome. The study makes use of data that is collected throughout the treatment program at the Depression Unit at Modum Bad, and analyze these longitudinal data by applying advances latent growth curve models. This is a subproject of a larger RCT study Depression Forefront (Dfront), which examine the treatment of PDD, compare different treatment modalities, and investigate therapeutic change mechanisms.

Project group:
Pål Ulvenes, Modum Bad (supervisor); Ole André Solbakken, UiO (co-supervisor); Bruce Wampold, Modum Bad; Mikkel Eielsen, Modum Bad

International collaboration:
Patrick J. Curran, University of North Carolina

Contact:
Phone: +47 32 74 97 00
E-mail: linne.melsom@modum-bad.no

Kristoffer J. Whittaker

Phd-candidate, clinical psychologist, formerly employed at the Family Unit, Modum Bad.

Academic affiliation:
Department of psychology, University of Oslo

Main professional interest:
Psychotherapy research, process and outcome research, couple and family therapy, integrative therapy, therapist development.

PhD project:
The project aims to study mechanisms of change within the patients who undergo treatment at the Family Unit, Modum Bad. Special attention will be given to identifying psychological and relational markers which might signify patients who undergo treatment and do not obtain the treatment results they aimed to achieve. In some cases the result of treatment might be a deterioration of their mental health. In the study we use a routine outcome monitoring system (ROM) known as Modum Process Outcome Questionnaire (M-POQ) to collect bi-weekly measurements regarding symptoms, common factors (therapist-patient factors, as well as couple and family factors) and therapy specific factors (affect, cognition, metacognitions and self-compassion). The motivation behind the study is to further our knowledge and thus be able to give better quality treatment to couples and families with complex challenges. Supervisors on the project are Terje Tilden and Andrè Solbakken.

Ingrid Marie Taxt Horne

MD, PhD-candidate

Academic affiliation:
UIO, Institute of Health and Society

Main interests:
Peer-support. Qualitative research.

PhD-project:
The PhD study is a qualitative study that will investigate the experience of attending peer-support for medical doctors in Norway. We know that the doctors who had utilized the services provided by the Resource center Villa Sana showed a reduction in sick leave, and significant reductions in emotional exhaustion, perceived job stress and emotion-focused coping strategies at three year follow up. However, we lack studies examining the often complex situations that prompt doctors to seek peer support services and how they subsequently manage to implement sustainable change. This study aims to identify and investigate why physicians seek help in the two peer counseling services provided in Norway, contributing to a deeper understanding of the challenges physicians meet in their everyday life. The research will also try to identify what has been experienced as beneficial during peer counseling and how the physicians’ manage to integrate these beneficial experiences into future well-being.

Collaboration:
Karin Isakson Rø (Modum Bad, LEFO- Institute for Studies of the Medical Profession), Frode Veggeland (UIO), Fredrik Baathe (LEFO- – Institute for Studies of the Medical Profession).

Telephone: 32 74 98 82
Email: ingrid.horne@modum-bad.no

Therese Ruud Snuggerud

Clinical psychologist, PhD-candidate

Academic Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo

Topics of interest:
Anxiety disorders, metacognitive therapy, attention training.

PhD Project:
The PhD Project aims to investigate the feasibility and efficacy of an intensive group treatment with MCT on a transdiagnostic group with anxiety disorders. The research will also investigate mechanisms of change in attention training. Studies have shown significant and lasting results of disorder-specific intensive treatment, however few studies have investigated intensive transdiagnostic treatment in a comorbid sample. The research can contribute to increased knowledge of the efficacy of intensive treatment with metacognitive therapy in a mixed group of anxiety disorders.

Collaboration:
Sverre Urnes Johnson, Modum Bad and UiO
Henrik Nordahl, NTNU
KariAnne Vrabel, Modum Bad and UiO
Asle Hoffart, Modum Bad and UiO

Omid Ebrahimi

Doctoral Research Fellow – Department of Psychology
Faculty of Social Sciences (Student)

Academic interests:
Personalized psychological treatment
Psychopathology
Idiography vs. nomothesis
Integrative research methods – combination of process- and outcome research
Complex systems, graph theory and network models
Philosophy of Science
Integrative therapies
Psychological effects of non-pharmacological epidemiological interventions during pandemics

Project:
Attending the Norwegian Double Degree PhD Program (“Prosjekt Dobbelkompetanse”) at the University of Oslo and Modum Bad Psychiatric Hospital and Research Center. The project utilizes the complex systems- and network paradigm to investigate psychopathology on two levels; cross-sectionally across specified groups of individuals, and longitudinally through the intensive study of the individual.

Supervisors:
Sverre Urnes Johnson, Asle Hoffart and Ole Andre Solbakken.

Background:
Cand.psychol. (Clinical Psychologist), Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, spring 2019.
Visiting scholar at Center for Anxiety & Related Disorders working in team led by Dr. Todd J. Farchione and Dr. David H. Barlow.
University of California, Berkeley –The Berkeley Clinical Science Practicum Program (2019).
The University of Hong Kong (HKU), 2016.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2010).

External collaboration:
Richard J. McNally, Harvard University.
Other associations
Clinical psychologist specializing in adult psychology at Modum Bad Psychiatric Hospital and Research Center.
Clinical Psychologist at the Institute of Psychological Guidance (IPR).

Email: omid.ebrahimi@psykologi.uio.no

Publications:

Ebrahimi, Omid V.; Pallesen, Ståle; Kenter, Robin Maria Francisca & Nordgreen, Tine (2019). Psychological interventions for the Fear of Public Speaking: A Meta-analysis.. Frontiers in Psychology.  ISSN 1664-1078.  10:488, s 1- 27 . doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00488

Ellen Kirstine Kjærulff Jepsen

Ingunn Agathe Amble

Tuva Øktedalen

Psychologist, PhD.

Educated psychologist in 2009 at the Psychological Institute, University of Oslo.

Professional interests:
Research into treatment of trauma. Test Anxiety. Construct validity. Psychometrics. Statistical analysis using structural equation models and Generalizability Theory.

Research:
Involved in the PTSD project «Improving emotional processing in the treatment of PTSD.» Performs empirical evaluation of the PTSD concept to examine whether emotions such as guilt, shame and anger also can be included in the content domain of PTSD. This involves both psychometric studies of the instruments of guilt, shame and anger, as well as analysis of whether guilt, shame and anger affect the process and outcome of two types of treatment of PTSD. The purpose of this RCT treatment study is to investigate 1) whether emotions such as guilt, shame and anger affect the process and treatment outcome in two cognitive behavioral models of trauma, and 2) whether there are different mediating relations between Imagery Exposure targeting  fear, and Imagery Rescripting and Reprocessing Therapy (IRRT) which targets other negative emotions as well as fear.

National and international cooperation:
In the initial phase of an international multi-center study with partners Mervin Smucker, Elizabeth Hembree of the Center for Treatment and Study of Anxiety at University of Philadelphia in the U.S., Atle Dyregrov at krisepsyk in Bergen, Joar Øveraas Halvorsen at special policlinical division for traumas in Trondheim and Hans M. Nordahl Institute of  Psychology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology at Trondheim, St Olavs Hospital avd Psychological health care, Østmarka. Supervisors are Professor Asle Hoffart at Modum Bad and Professor Knut Arne Hagtvet at Institute of psychology, University of Oslo.

Telephone: 32 74 98 56

Malin Elisabeth Olofsson

Clinical Psychologist, PhD-candidate
Master of Arts in English Linguistics
Master of Arts in Swedish Linguistics

Academic affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Oslo University

Phone: +47 22 85 55 47
E-mail: m.e.olofsson@psykologi.uio.no

Publications:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24724927

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19012276.2016.1149092

http://www.psykologtidsskriftet.no/index.php?seks_id=502497&a=3

Tomas Formo Langkaas

Psychologist, PhD-candidate

Academic affiliation:
University of Oslo

Research:
Together with Tuva Øktedalen and Asle Hoffart, Tomas Formo Langkaas has conducted a randomized clinical trial on the role of various emotions in trauma-focused treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder.

Relevant publications:
Langkaas, T. F., Hoffart, A., Øktedalen, T., Ulvenes, P. G., Hembree, E. A., & Smucker, M. (2017). Exposure and non-fear emotions: A randomized controlled study of exposure-based and rescripting-based imagery in PTSD treatment. Behaviour research and therapy, 97, 33–42

Contact:
Drammen DPS, phone (+47) 32 86 18 00

Publications:

• Langkaas, T. F., Johnson, S.U., Stenshorne, K., Collin-Tiller, C. & Vrabel, K. R. (2017). Klinisk signifikans i praksis. Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening, 54(12), 1160–1167
• Langkaas, T. F., Hoffart, A., Øktedalen, T., Ulvenes, P. G., Hembree, E. A., & Smucker, M. (2017). Exposure and non-fear emotions: A randomized controlled study of exposure-based and rescripting-based imagery in PTSD treatment. Behaviour research and therapy, 97, 33–42

Andreas Høstmælingen

Specialist in Psychology, PhD-candidate

Academic affiliation:
Doctoral candidate at the psychological institute of the university of Oslo

Research interests:
evidence-based psychological practice, depression, effective components and change mechanisms in psychotherapy, different approaches to understanding psychopathology, feedback.

Research:
The PhD study is a naturalistic process-outcome study that will investigate mechanisms of change trough the course of treatment of persistent depressive disorder (PDD). Specifically, the study will focus on outcomes of treatment for depression in the form of psychotherapy and/or antidepressants, and which factors are related to outcomes. This is a subproject of the larger RCT study Depression Forefront (Dfront), which examine the treatment of PDD, compare different treatment modalities, and investigate therapeutic change mechanisms.

Collaboration:
Pål Ulvenes, Modum Bad; Mikkel Eielsen, Modum Bad; Bruce Wampold, Modum Bad; Helene Amundsen Nissen-Lie, Universitetet i Oslo.

Telephone: 936 48 119
E-mail: andrhos@uio.no

Publications:

• Drozd, F., Slinning, K., Nielsen, B., & Høstmælingen, A. (2020). Foreldreveiledning – hva virker for hvem? Psykologisk.no. Hentet fra https://psykologisk.no/2020/02/foreldreveiledning-hva-virker-for-hvem/
• Evers, A., Muñiz, J., Hagemeister, C., Høstmælingen, A., Lindley, P., Sjöberg, A., & Bartram, D. (2013). Assessing the quality of tests: Revision of the EFPA review model. Psicothema, 25(3), 283-291
• Høstmælingen, A. (2017). Et forsvar for diagnoser. Tidsskrift for norsk psykologforening, 54(10), 1016–1019
• Høstmælingen, A. (2017). Et forsvar for sykeliggjøring. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 54(6), 570–571.
• Høstmælingen, A. (2014). Klinisk ekspertise og New Public Management. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 51(6), 453–460.
• Høstmælingen, A. (2010). Hvordan kan prinsipperklæringen bidra til å kvalitetssikre psykologisk praksis? Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 47(10), 930-936.
• Vaskinn, A., Egeland, J., Nielsen, G. H., & Høstmælingen, A. (2010). Norske psykologers bruk av tester. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 47(11), 1010–1016.

Harald Bækkelund

Specialist in clinical psychology, PhD-candidate

Adjunct position:
Project associate/ Researcher II, Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies

Academic affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo

Topics of interest:
PTSD, complex trauma, dissociative disorders, implementation of evidence-based practice, psychotherapy research

PhD-project:
The project is focused on investigating the effect of treatment for patients with complex trauma disorders at Modum Bads Outpatient Clinic in Oslo. The clinic has developed group-based treatment for patients with PTSD and dissociative disorders related to childhood traumatization. The treatment has been manualized and disseminated to several clinics throughout Norway. The project ”Stabilizing group treatment for complex trauma – a randomized controlled trial” aims to investigate the effect of this treatment in a randomized controlled design.

Supervisors:
Espen Ajo Arnevik, PhD, Department of Addiction Treatment, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
Akiah O. Bergh, PhD, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), K. G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo
Asle Hoffart, PhD, Modum Bad

International collaboration:
Ruth Lanius, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Paul Frewen, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Bethany Brand, PhD, Towson University, Maryland, USA
Suzette Boon, PhD, Top Referent Trauma Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Publications:

• Berg, A. O., & Bækkelund, H. (2015). Differensialdiagnostiske vurderinger ved schizofreni og komplekse dissosiative lidelser. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 52(3), 247-254.
• Bækkelund, H., & Berg, A. O. (2014). Kartlegging og diagnostisering av traumerelaterte lidelser. I T. L. Anstorp & K. Benum (Red.) Traumebehandling Komplekse traumelidelser og dissosiasjon (s. 78-99). Universitetsforlaget.
• Nielsen, G. H., Danielsen, E., Befring, T. E., Bækkelund, H., Duckert, M., Fossum, I. S., & Storesund, I. J. (2013).
• Psykologforeningens veilederutdanning: Fortsatt verd å satse på. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 50(7), 681-684.
  Bækkelund, H., Bergerud-Wichstrøm, M., Mørck, A. B., Endsjø, M., & Aareskjold, J. (2017).
• Implementering av kunnskapsbasert behandling av PTSD hos voksne i klinikk: Oppsummering av pilotprosjekt. Oslo: Nasjonalt kunnskapssenter om vold og traumatisk stress.

Vitenskapelige artikler og bokkapitler:

• Berg, A. O., & Bækkelund, H. (2015). Differensialdiagnostiske vurderinger ved schizofreni og komplekse dissosiative lidelser. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 52(3), 247-254.
• Bækkelund, H., & Berg, A. O. (2014). Kartlegging og diagnostisering av traumerelaterte lidelser. I T. L. Anstorp & K. Benum (Red.) Traumebehandling Komplekse traumelidelser og dissosiasjon (s. 78-99). Universitetsforlaget.
• Nielsen, G. H., Danielsen, E., Befring, T. E., Bækkelund, H., Duckert, M., Fossum, I. S., & Storesund, I. J. (2013). Psykologforeningens veilederutdanning: Fortsatt verd å satse på. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 50(7), 681-684.

Andre publikasjoner:

• Bækkelund, H., Bergerud-Wichstrøm, M., Mørck, A. B., Endsjø, M., & Aareskjold, J. (2017). Implementering av kunnskapsbasert behandling av PTSD hos voksne i klinikk: Oppsummering av pilotprosjekt. Oslo: Nasjonalt kunnskapssenter om vold og traumatisk stress.