Mental health challenges impact millions globally, and as mental health professionals, our goal is to provide the best care possible. Traditional treatment often relies on clinical intuition and subjective assessments, which can lead to less-than-ideal outcomes. This is where Measurement-Based … Continue reading Unlocking Better Mental Health Outcomes with Measurement-Based Care (MBC)
Two weeks into the course “Data Science” at Harvard, here are some reflections and a doodle that I made during the course. 📈 Serious data science that leads to data-based decision making follows a five step model (my simplified modification from Harvard’s original model): 1. What’s the problem? Make a specific, measurable definition of what the problem is. My experience: Often people pass over this stage too quickly, just to discover that they do not really know what problem they want to solve. Make it specific, make it measurable. 2. Get the data & wrangle it Data wrangling is a … Continue reading “To get to the good stuff, you need to do the boring stuff.” – First lesson learned from Harvard Business School
Our group has recently submitted a new study on the associations of climate worry with every day life impairments, pro-environmental behaviors and perceived need for support. … Continue reading Climate Worry: Associations with Functional Impairment, Pro-Environmental Behaviors and Perceived Need for Support – Preprint out now
Ten years ago, June 20th 2014, I published my first scientific article. It was a small step, but would send me on an amazing journey. More importantly however, this first study 10 years ago became the stepping-stone for a snowballing development that eventually would make effective psychological treatment more accessible to children and adolescents in need As a clinical psychologist, I had met many children and adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). I had seen how OCD can impact a child’s life and disrupt the family system. I knew also that we had a very effective treamtent, that we could take … Continue reading Celebrating a Decade of Progress: My Journey in ICBT for Childhood OCD
I had the honor to give a presentation about the integration of sustainablility and research at the 2024 PhD Conference at Karolinska Institutet. The intersection of … Continue reading Embracing Sustainability in Research: Lessons Learned at Karolinska Institutet’s 2024 PhD Conference
This review was recently published by Hedman-Lagerlöf and colleagues in the high-impact scientific journal “World Psychiatry”. Some highlights: This was an update, including new studies until 2022. The review summarizes results from 31 studies comparing Internet CBT directly with face-to-face … Continue reading Internet CBT and face-to-face therapy are similarly effective, shows new systematic review.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common psychological problem in childhood, with a prevalence of about 2% in the population. OCD usually has dramatic effects on the … Continue reading Internet CBT for OCD in youth: From idea to implementation
We are in the process of publishing our manuscript titled “Feasibility of Internet-delivered cognitive-behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder in youth with autism spectrum disorder: a clinical benchmark study”. You can read and download the preprint manuscript at https://psyarxiv.com/8ynp2. Reference: Wickberg, F., Lenhard, F., Aspvall, K., Serlachius, E., Andrén, P., Johansson, F., & Mataix-Cols, D. (2021, January 23). Feasibility of Internet-delivered cognitive-behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder in youth with autism spectrum disorder: a clinical benchmark study. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8ynp2 Continue reading ICBT for OCD in youth with autism spectrum disorder: Updated preprint out now
Our research team at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet has recently published a study on the cost of illness of childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). … Continue reading The Cost of Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder in Swedish Youth
Successful treatment of childhood OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) is associated with an increase of quality of life in the long term. This was demonstrated by a new study, published by first author Sanne Jensen, the NordLOTS group and me as a co-author. This study is a long-term follow up of one of the largest pediatric OCD studies, the Nordic Longterm OCD Treatment Study (NordLOTS), conducted in Denmark, Norway and Sweden: 220 children 7 to 17 years received CBT in a first step (cognitive behavior therapy). Those who did not respond fully to CBT received either more CBT or medication (a so … Continue reading Quality of life in youth with obsessive–compulsive disorder
