Institutt for helse-, sosial- og velferdsfag
Recent Submissions
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Recovery-Oriented Intersectoral Care in Mental Health: As Perceived by Healthcare Professionals and Users
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This study aimed to explore how mental health professionals and users perceive recovery-oriented intersectoral care when comparing mental health hospitals and community mental healthcare. Methodological design: Five ... -
A tale from the Glass Dome: A narrative analysis of housing, living conditions and recovery
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article explores how housing circumstances in Norway may influence recovery for persons experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance abuse problems. In Norway, the provision of housing for people who are ... -
The Nordic Income Equality Model in Health Promotion
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We highlight and analyze an important channel for redistribution of income in the Nordic countries, often underemphasized in the scholarly literature that analyze the relationship between income equality and public health. ... -
A qualitative exploration of interactions with natural environments among immigrant women in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The role of nature in potentially improving people’s health – including immigrant women, who are particularly prone to health challenges – has been highlighted. Success in this public health arena requires an adequate ... -
Cleaning up or throwing out the psychological insight with the bath water
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In their article Psychology: a Giant with Feet of Clay, Zagaria, Andò and Zennaro aim to clean up the confusing and inconsistent conceptual landscape in current psychology. They find that evolutionary psychology with its ... -
Embodying Experiences with Nature in Everyday Life Recovery for Persons with Eating Disorders
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Eating disorders can be understood as attempts to manage a problematic relationship with one’s own body. The objective of this qualitative study was to explore and discuss perspectives of embodying “experiences with nature” ... -
A heuristic model for collaborative practice – Part 1: A meta-synthesis of empirical findings on collaborative strategies in community mental health and substance abuse practice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Collaboration has become a cornerstone for healthcare practice in recent decades resulting in the efforts at international and national levels to integrate the concept into healthcare practice and services. ... -
Comparing Approaches to Research in Global and International Health: An Exploratory Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Global health is a term often used interchangeably with international health due to overlapping similarities and unclear distinctions. While some international health supporters argue that global health as a ... -
A heuristic model for collaborative practice—Part 2: Development of the collaborative, dialogue‑based clinical practice model for community mental health and substance abuse care
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Various models for collaborative practice in mental health care incorporating the perspectives of service-user participation and collaboration in the care have been developed. However, the emphasis in these ... -
Using Dyadic Interviews to Explore Recovery as Collaborative Practices: Challenging the Epistemic Norm of the Single Person Perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The method dyadic interviews involves interviewing a pair of participants, focusing explicitly on the interaction between them and how it develops data. Dyadic interviews with persons who are involved in ongoing, working ... -
Managers’ perceptions of competence and practice development following education in the prevention and management of staff-directed aggression: promoting person-centred practice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Staff-directed aggression and violence may have harmful implications for all parts of a mental health service organisation. In an effort to advance the development of competent practice in community mental ... -
Leisure and community assessments: Emotional place relations among young teenagers in a Norwegian industrial stronghold
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The purpose of the article is to explore the role of participation in organized leisure activities in young teenagers’ emotional place relations. Data from a survey of students in lower secondary schools were analysed using ... -
Industrial action research: the Norwegian way
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article explores how to promote inter-professional collaboration between health professionals and welfare professionals in a project organisation (the Inter-professional collaboration project IPC-project) aimed at ... -
Social Support and Relational Recovery in the Age of Individualism: A Qualitative Study Exploring Barriers and Possibilities for Social Support in Mental Health Work.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Objective: Several studies point out social support and social work as crucial for mental health recovery. There is a need for extended knowledge in the discussion of what actually hinders and facilitates social support. ... -
The Processes, Effects and Therapeutics of Pilgrimage Walking the St. Olav Way
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Pilgrimage walking is increasingly sought as self-therapy for different mental, physical and spiritual ailments, sudden life changes, crossroads or challenges. However, pilgrimage walking as therapy is largely an unexplored ... -
Fluid Boundaries and Moving Targets: Midwife Leaders’ Perspectives on Continuing Professional Education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In this study, we aim to understand midwife leaders’ perspectives on continuing professional education among midwives in their work unit. We used a phenomenological perspective and method in the process of interviewing the ... -
Development of the Workplace Inclusion Questionnaire (WIQ)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Aims: To develop a questionnaire to examine attitudes among employees and managers to include people with various health problems into their work group, and to test the questionnaire in one relevant population within the ... -
The Motivations of Pilgrimage Walking the St.Olav Way in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Walking pilgrimages are experiencing a revival, while at the same time a change of character in light of our changing times. Pilgrimage walking is increasingly taking on non-religious dimensions, related to a person’s self ... -
Om hjemlighet og komparasjon i antropologiske studier i Norge
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Artikkelen tar opp enkelte sentrale sider ved å gjøre feltarbeid «hjemme». Antropologers konstruksjoner av et kultu-relt «hjem» korresponderer ofte med deres «egen» nasjon. Dette innebærer selvsagt noen fallgruver, og jeg ... -
Globalization, Work, and Health: A Nordic Perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The Nordic countries are among the world’s leading countries in international rankings on prosperity, productivity, social equity, trust, and health. Such positive results may be linked to how these countries have organized ...
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