Ida Mälarstig

Psychologist and Ph.D.-student driven by the aim to increase knowledge and access to psychological treatment for adolescents struggling with substance use and criminality in institutional care. Coordinating the Network for Research on Child and Youth Antisocial Development at KI (CYAD)

Clinical experience:

• Treating post-traumatic stress disorder, Prolonged Exposure and Narrative Exposure Therapy, for asylum-seekers and interpreter-mediated.
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, special interest in Relational Frame Theory.

 
Main supervisor: Sven Alfonsson.

Co-supervisors: Tobias Lundgren, Hanna Sahlin, Karolinska Institutet, Mårten Tyrberg, Uppsala University.

Research grants:

• Majblomman 2023
• Stiftelens Frimurare Barnhuset 2024
• Statens institutionsstyrelse, Effects of PULS on Criminality Among Institutionalized Youth, Focusing Criminal Gangs 2025-2028

Psychotherapist and Specialist in Clinical Psychology, Stockholm University, 2018-2022.
Master of Science in Psychology, Stockholm University, 2008-2013.

Project Manager and PhD-student in a research project on evaluating and adjusting a behavioral treatment, the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach, A-CRA, to compulsory institutional care for youth with criminal behavior and substance use disorder. 

Studies in my thesis:

1. A randomized pilot study to evaluate feasibility of treatment (A-CRA) and high quality study procedures
2. A multi-center randomized controlled study to evaluate treatment effects of A-CRA in compulsory institutional care, short term and long term
3. An interview studie to investigate the experiences of the counselors conducting A-CRA in compulsory institutional care
4. An interview studie to investigate the experiences of the adolescents undergoing A-CRA in compulsory institutional care, furthermore how they percieve their problems, why they started using substances and got engaged in criminality.
5. A mixed methods single case study to study the interaction between prosocial-, drugrelated and aggressive behaviour in young adolescents (12-in institutional care

Teaches in the subject areas:

• Youth with severe norm-breaking behaviour 
• Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA),
• PTSD: Narrative Exposure Therapy and Prolonged Exposure
• Interpreter-mediated treatment
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

At: Specialist Training Program for Psychologists, the Psychotherapy Program, and the Residency Training for Psychiatrists. Additionally

Co-supervised two psychologists writing their specialist degree thesis.