Keeping mental health care on track: How digital mental healthcare held up during the COVID-19 pandemic

What we looked atOur team from Karolinska, WeMind Psykiatri, Gothenburg University and Stockholm University analyzed data from 2,290 outpatients treated between 2017 and 2022. Using standardized … Continue reading Keeping mental health care on track: How digital mental healthcare held up during the COVID-19 pandemic

NEW PREPRINT PUBLISHED: Enhancing Depression Treatment Outcomes Through Measurement-Based Care and Continuous Quality Improvement

In our recent study, we explored how integrating measurement-based care, benchmarking, and continuous quality improvement (CQI) can enhance treatment outcomes for depression within specialized mental healthcare … Continue reading NEW PREPRINT PUBLISHED: Enhancing Depression Treatment Outcomes Through Measurement-Based Care and Continuous Quality Improvement

“To get to the good stuff, you need to do the boring stuff.” – First lesson learned from Harvard Business School

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

Celebrating a Decade of Progress: My Journey in ICBT for Childhood OCD

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