Since around 2006 we started collaborating on local, regional and national COPMI efforts. Clemens Hosman vistited Tromsø in 2004 and the Norwegian team visited his team in the Nederlands in 2005. Karin van Doesum was invited to join the team in Tromsø as a guest researcher, and still holds a 20% position in the research group in Tromsø. This research group works on mental health promotion and prevention for children and young people, and consist of around 20 members. Together we visited Melbourne Australia in 2009. We joined the Prato group in 2013, by invitation from Andrea Reupert and Darryl Mayberry. Several projects and two tenfold publications is the result of our collaboration so far. Our team consists of these people:
PhD., prevention psychologist, Karin van Doesum
For more than 20 year Karin have been involved in the development and implementation of a national program for children of mentally ill parent in the Netherlands. Her special interest is focused on interventions for infants of mentally ill parents, family interventions and pregnant women with mental illness. She also has an interest for online assistance (e-health) of women with postpartum depression and their babies. Her work in Norway has been in a project where a child perspective was implemented an adult mental health clinic in North Norway and in a study on development of tools for GP’s to offer support to children of mentally parents.
Dr. philos, psychologist, Charlotte Reedtz
Charlotte has worked with children and families for 30 years, as a practitioner, court expert and researcher. In her doctoral work she tested an innovative brief parenting intervention in the Incredible Years Program Series. Her special interest in parenting, parenting programs and parent training has expanded to several risk groups, including parents with mental disorders. She initiated the research project on implementing routines to support parents who are patients in the largest adult mental health clinic in North Norway in 2007. The main aim of this project was to implement routines and interventions to improve services offered to COPMi/FaPMI.
Prof., PhD., educational scientist, Camilla Lauritzen
Camilla joined our team as a PhD student in 2009, in Charlottes project. Camillas interest has focused on Child and Youth mental health prevention and promotion, specifically on improving the situation for children at risk. In pursuing this, her research has focused on evaluating child welfare practice and development, strengthening the education of services for children at risk, and to improve services offered to COPMi/FaPMI.
Our research interest in summary:
Child & Adolescent mental health & wellbeing
Parent Training
Evidence Based Practice/Best Practice
Implementing Innovative Interventions in Community Health & Social Care
Evaluating Change of Clinical Practice in Adult Mental Health Care
Evaluating Change of Clinical Practice in Child & Adolescent Community Health & Social Care
Activities Prato research collaborative
The team is involved in several publications together with other members of the Prato group the topic are strategies to recruit children/youngsters for preventive activities, review of line resources for children and youngster and a protocol article about a model for research and intervention promoting wellbeing for children and parents with mental illness.
