Graduate school of Mental Health (Ph.D. school)

Anchoring and management
Graduate school of Mental Health was established in 2012 and is a joint cooperation between five Departments in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Tromsø: Clinical Medicine, Psychology, Health and Care Sciences, The Regional Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Child Welfare – North and Clinical Dentistry.
The school is administratively anchored at the Department of Clinical Medicine.

Profile
Mental health is of great relevance to public health and in preventive and curative health care. Mental and somatic health are strongly interrelated. Research in the field involves psychiatry, psychology, health-care, somatic medicine and clinical dentistry. Ongoing mental health research at the University hospital of North Norway (UNN) and the University of Tromsø (UiT) are related to basic research, treatment, prevention and aspects of interagency and multidisciplinary cooperation in health care, both within the specialized and primary care and include all age groups. 

Pedagogical methods
All courses will consists of four sessions (two in the autumn and two in the spring). Each session will be taught over one and a half days with two hour lectures and eight hours of seminar/group supervision.All

Lectures, group supervision and group work/seminars. Each student has to present at least one draft of an article for group discussions, or have a trial defense of the PhD thesis. Each student also has to, at least once, be an opponent/discussant of the research of others. Students have to submit their written work prior to the courses. 

Graduate-courses related to the school (one course is mandatory)

HEL-8016
Challenges and opportunities for qualitative methods in clinical research on mental health - 5 stp

The course will undertake problems associated with the use of qualitative research methods within mental health. The course will include different methodological approaches and will address various ethical dilemmas and challenges associated with research in mental health.

The course will be conducted during two separate weeks (one in the autumn and one in the spring) where the theme will be

• Qualitative methods to describe experiences with mental health and treatment
• A theoretical approach to analyze qualitative data
• The research process with an emphasis on data collection, analysis and methodology
• User-involved research

Plenary speakers: Per Johnsson (Lunds University/Sweeden), Professor Kirsti Malterud (UiB) Associate professor Ottar Ness, Professor Torill Jenssen, Eivind Eckhoff, Associate professor Gunn Pettersen, Professor Tore Sørlie 

Time Schedule Spring 2014
27.-28. January: Challenges in Mixing Methofd within the research Field of health and Social Welfare Lecture; Torill Jenssen
Being culture- and contextual sensitive in Qualitative Research
Lecture: Ottar Ness

08.-09. May: Å forske sammen innen psykisk helsefeltet: Erfaringer og refleksjoner rundt samarbeidsbasert forskning og brukermedvirkning i kvalitative studier
Lecture; Marius Veseth & Åse Skjølberg

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HEL-8017
Quantitative method in clinical health research - 5 stp

The course will address quantitative research and problems related to core thinking, characterizing and diagnosing, treatment/prevention and health services within psychiatric healthcare.

The course will be carried out as four seminars (two in the autumn and two in the spring) where the theme will be
(a) diagnosis and psychometrics, including a transcultural perspective
(b) research in treatment (effect- and efficacy research)
(c) translation research
(d) implementation research and user effects.

Plenary Speakers: Professor Vera Morgen, Professor Peter Yellowlees, Bjørn Helge Handegård (RKBU), Professor Brita Elvevåg, Professor Knut A. Hagtvet, Professor Monica Martinussen (RKBU), Professor Oddgeir Friborg (IPS) 

Time Schedule Spring 2014:
26.- 27. February: Newer technological advances to the study and treatment of mental illness
Lecture; Professor Peter Yellowees and Professor Brita Elvevåg 

03.- 04. June: Måling av forandring (design og måling)
Lecture; Professor Knut A. Hagtvet

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