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My primary research and clinical interests are in behavioral medicine and the relationship between psychological processes and physical complaints. I am also interested in the philosophy of science and research methodology. In the past 10 years, I have done work primarily in eHealth strategies to psychological treatment and the assessment and characteristics of pathological health anxiety. My current main lines of research are:
- Common mechanisms in, and transdiagnostic psychological treatments for, distress related to persistent somatic symptoms
- Understanding and managing the psychological long-term effects of cancer, and especially cancer forms with an otherwise relatively good prognosis
- Understanding and managing pathological health anxiety, i.e., the recurrent and excessive fear of, or preoccupation with, serious disease
- Psychological treatments to improve clinical outcomes in somatic conditions such as paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, fibromyalgia, and irritable bowel syndrome
- Assessment of, and Internet-delivered psychological interventions for, clinical depression, the common anxiety disorders, and chronic stress disorders, with particular emphasis on primary care
Open access clinical tools and resources, no permission needed
- Free-to-use introduction and manual for delivering cognitive behavior therapy for pathological health anxiety: https://www.kompetenscentrumpsykiskohalsa.se/utbildning/stegvis-vard/halsoangest/
- Free-to-use manual for delivering transdiagnostic exposure-based therapy for distress related to persistent somatic symptoms: https://osf.io/cnbwj/
- Free-to-use Health Preoccupation Diagnostic Interview (HPDI) for the assessment of DSM-5 somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder: https://osf.io/ydmcf/
- Free-to-use dataset of studies reporting mean trait health anxiety in student samples from 1985 to 2017: https://osf.io/wy8c4/
Supervisorships 2022
- Main supervisorships: Jonna Hybelius (KI, 2022-)
- Co-supervisorships: Karoline Kolaas (KI, Anne H Berman, 2017-), Susanna Österman (KI, Volen Z Ivanov, 2018-), Julia Winter (KI, Christel Hedman, 2022-)
- Master-level supervisorships: Alice Ahnlund Hoffmann, Caroline Ivert, Elsa Frostell, Josefin Palmgren (KI, 2021-22; with Maria Hedman-Lagerlöf); Daniel Bodin, David Sandberg (KI, 2022-23)
- Psychotherapist and specialist supervisorships: Gottan Lundgren Köszeghy, Jenny Fuxe (CBTI, 2021-22); Daniel Björkander (KI, 2022-23)