Emma Högberg Ragnarsson

Licensed Psychologist and PhD Candidate:

I am a licensed psychologist and PhD candidate at the Centre for Psychiatry Research (CPF) at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm City Council. In this role, I coordinate courses and provide clinical teaching to mental health practitioners within child and adolescent psychiatric clinics (BUP) .

After graduating as a psychologist from Umeå University in 2008, I started working as a clinical psychologist at a child and adolescent psychiatric clinic (BUP) in Region Västmanland. I received my clinical accreditation in 2009, In 2010, I relocated to Stockholm to work as a clinical psychologist at BUMM (Barn- och ungdomsmedicinsk mottagning), Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska Hospital. Concurrently, I worked at a private clinic and later established my own practice,

In 2016, I joined the Centre for Psychiatry Research (CPF) at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm City Council, to be part of a team developing the clinical specialist educational program for psychologists within BUP. 

My research interest are: 

• Training and supervision for mental health practitioners
• Implementation and behavior change in clinical contexts
• Mental health clinicans’ professional development
• Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
• Psychometrics (IRT and Rasch analysis)
• Qualitative studies

At the Centre for Psychiatry Research at Karolinska Institutet I am a course
coordinator and teacher at the specialist psychologist programme in child and
adolescent psychiatry.