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Dr Therese Bjørndal Halvorsen

Therese Bjørndal

Lecturer in children's mental health at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway

Email: therese.halvorsen@uit.no

Profile

Therese Bjørndal Halvorsen is a researcher in child and adolescent mental health at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway. She holds a PhD in Health Sciences and has a particular interest in children’s and families’ experiences of mental health, well-being, and support services. Her current research focuses more broadly on children and families in child and adolescent mental health services. Her broader research interests include children’s and parents’ perspectives, family support and parenting interventions, school attendance difficulties, migration and refugee experiences, and qualitative research with children and families. She is particularly interested in methodological, ethical, and epistemological questions concerning how the perspectives of children and families can be recognized and used as meaningful sources of knowledge in research and practice.

Research

Expertise

Child and adolescent mental health; Children’s and families’ perspectives; Qualitative research with children and families; Children’s participation and agency; Parenting and family interventions; School attendance difficulties / problematic school absence; Refugee and migrant children and families; Mental health and well-being; Implementation and user experiences of interventions; Methodological and ethical issues in research with children
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