Sofie Bäärnhielm

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Journal article: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY. 2024;15:1520122
Editorial: Clinical implementation of the DSM-5 cultural formulation interview
Baarnhielm S; Rohlof H; Demarinis V
Article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2024;61(6):842-857
"I had no idea there were psychiatric clinics for children": A qualitative study of how migrant parents reach Swedish mental health services for their children
Gubi E; Hollander A-C; Baarnhielm S
Article: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY. 2024;15:1377006
What information did the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interviews provide when used with Swedish-speaking patients in a psychiatric setting in Stockholm?
Wallin MI; Demarinis V; Nevonen L; Baarnhielm S
Article: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY. 2024;15:1371339
The Cultural Formulation Interview as a clinical tool in the assessment of eating disorders: a pilot study
Strand M; Welch E; Baarnhielm S
Article: BMC PSYCHIATRY. 2024;24(1):222
A qualitative study about explanatory models of alcohol use disorder among patients and relatives in a Ugandan mental hospital
Rudenstrand H; Baarnhielm S
Article: JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION MEDICINE. 2024;56:jrm13466
INTERDISCIPLINARY PAIN REHABILITATION FOR IMMIGRANTS WITH CHRONIC PAIN WHO NEED LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION
Uhlin K; Persson E; Baarnhielm S; Borg K; Lofgren M; Stalnacke B-M
Article: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY. 2024;15:1298920
A qualitative analysis of the documentation of DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interviews with non-native speaking patients in a Swedish mental health care setting
Wallin MI; DeMarinis V; Nevonen L; Baarnhielm S
Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2024;121:23091
[PTSD and Complex PTSD - Assessment, management and treatment].
Mijaljica G; Bäärnhielm S; Theunis E; Dyster-Aas J; K Arnberg F; Ramel B
Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CIRCUMPOLAR HEALTH. 2023;82(1):2246644
Samis in the city. A qualitative study of mental health and well-being among Samis in Stockholm
Sundvall GM; Eastwood EM; Baarnhielm S
Article: BJPSYCH OPEN. 2023;9(6):e205
Migration background, eating disorder symptoms and healthcare service utilisation: findings from the Stockholm Public Health Cohort
Strand M; Baarnhielm S; Fredlund P; Brynedal B; Welch E
Article: CULTURE MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY. 2022;46(4):846-863
Could the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview Hold Therapeutic Potential? Suggestions for Further Exploration and Adaptation Within a Framework of Therapeutic Assessment
Strand M; Baarnhielm S
Article: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRIC SCIENCES. 2022;31:e56
Contact with psychiatric care prior to suicide: are there differences between migrants and the majority population in Sweden? A cohort study of 12 474 persons who died by suicide between 2006 and 2016
Jonsson E; Sjoqvist H; Sundvall M; Baarnhielm S; Dalman C; Hollander AC
Article: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRIC SCIENCES. 2022;31:e20
Are all children treated equally? Psychiatric care and treatment receipt among migrant, descendant and majority Swedish children: a register-based study
Gubi E; Sjoqvist H; Dalman C; Baarnhielm S; Hollander A-C
Journal article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2022;59(2):111-115
Training in cultural psychiatry: Translating research into improvements in mental health care for migrants
Baarnhielm S; Schouler-Ocak M
Article: BMC PSYCHIATRY. 2022;22(1):149
Impact on routine psychiatric diagnostic practice from implementing the DSM-5 cultural formulation interview: a pragmatic RCT in Sweden
Wallin MI; Galanti MR; Nevonen L; Lewis-Fernandez R; Baarnhielm S
Article: SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2022;57(1):161-171
Mental health service use among migrant and Swedish-born children and youth: a register-based cohort study of 472,129 individuals in Stockholm
Gubi E; Sjoqvist H; Viksten-Assel K; Baarnhielm S; Dalman C; Hollander A-C
Article: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY. 2021;12:789663
An Internet Based Intervention for Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder-A Qualitative Study of Participants Experiences
Westerberg B; Baarnhielm S; Giles C; Hylen U; Hollandare F; Bejerot S
Article: BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION. 2021;21(1):533
Cross-cultural training program on mental health care for refugees - a mixed method evaluation
McDonald JT; Dahlin M; Baarnhielm S
Article: BMJ OPEN. 2021;11(9):e045923
Perceived barriers to care for migrant children and young people with mental health problems and/or neurodevelopmental differences in high-income countries: a meta-ethnography
Place V; Nabb B; Gubi E; Assel K; Ahlen J; Hagstrom A; Baarnhielm S; Dalman C; Hollander A-C
Article: SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2020;55(11):1449-1456
Differences in psychiatric care utilisation among unaccompanied refugee minors, accompanied migrant minors, and Swedish-born minors
Axelsson L; Baarnhielm S; Dalman C; Hollander A-C
Article: BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH. 2020;5(9):e002471
Psychiatric care use among migrants to Sweden compared with Swedish-born residents: a longitudinal cohort study of 5 150 753 people
Hollander A-C; Mackay E; Sjoqvist H; Kirkbride JB; Baarnhielm S; Dalman C
Article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2020;57(4):542-555
Patients' and clinicians' experiences of the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview: A mixed method study in a Swedish outpatient setting
Wallin MI; Dahlin M; Nevonen L; Baarnhielm S
Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2020;117:FU6C
Kulturella aspekter vid psykisk sjukdom.
Bäärnhielm S
Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2020;117:FTSD
[Transcultural encounter empowering the vulnerable patient].
Bäärnhielm S; Reichenberg K; Gabrielson K; Fossum B
Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2020;117:FR6L
[Cultural and social variability need to be included in development of methods].
Bäärnhielm S; Johansson Metso F
Article: CULTURE MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY. 2019;43(3):387-403
Traditional Chinese Medicine Explanatory Models of Depressive Disorders: A Qualitative Study
Kam W; Zhang Z-J; Baarnhielm S
Article: CRISIS-THE JOURNAL OF CRISIS INTERVENTION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION. 2018;39(5):326-334
Challenges of Combining Perspectives A Qualitative Study of the Communication Between Female Suicidal Asylum Seekers and Mental Health Clinicians
Sundvall M; Titelman D; Baarnhielm S
Journal article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2018;28(suppl_1):cky048.223
6.10-P18Psychiatric care utilisation among migrants and Swedish born
Mackay E; Hollander A; Bäärnhielm S; Kirkbride J; Dalman C
Journal article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIGRATION, HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE. 2017;13(4):449-450
Human and Dignified? Migrants’ Experiences of Living in a “State of Deportability” in Sweden
Bäärnhielm S
Journal article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2017;54(5-6):565-574
Mental health for refugees, asylum seekers and displaced persons: A call for a humanitarian agenda.
Bäärnhielm S; Laban K; Schouler-Ocak M; Rousseau C; Kirmayer LJ
Journal article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2016;26(3):375-376
Refugees' mental health-a call for a public health approach with focus on resilience and cultural sensitivity
Baarnhielm S
Article: BMC PSYCHIATRY. 2015;15:235
Assessment and treatment of asylum seekers after a suicide attempt: a comparative study of people registered at mental health services in a Swedish location
Sundvall M; Tidemalm DH; Titelman DE; Runeson B; Baarnhielm S
Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2015;112:DH37
[Knowledge of the cultural aspects of health is key to equitable care].
Bäärnhielm S; Hollander A-C
Article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2015;52(3):287-310
Revising psychiatric diagnostic categorisation of immigrant patients after using the Cultural Formulation in DSM-IV
Baarnhielm S; Wistedt AA; Rosso MS
Article: BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION. 2014;14:207
Approaching the vulnerability of refugees: evaluation of cross-cultural psychiatric training of staff in mental health care and refugee reception in Sweden
Baarnhielm S; Edlund A-S; Ioannou M; Dahlin M
Article: PSYCHIATRY-INTERPERSONAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES. 2014;77(2):130-154
Culture and Psychiatric Evaluation: Operationalizing Cultural Formulation for DSM-5
Lewis-Fernandez R; Aggarwal NK; Baarnhielm S; Rohlof H; Kirmayer LJ; Weiss MG; Jadhav S; Hinton L; Alarcon RD; Bhugra D; Groen S; van Dijk R; Qureshi A; Collazos F; Rousseau C; Caballero L; Ramos M; Lu F
Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2013;110(43-44):1916-1917
[DSM-5 focuses on culture and context. Interview tool adapts psychiatry to the multicultural society].
Bäärnhielm S
Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2013;110(29-31):1343-1345
[Health communicators can contribute to better health among people born abroad].
Bäärnhielm S; Hussein H; Baker U; Allebeck P
Article: ADVANCES IN PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE. 2013;33:40-55
Opening Up Mental Health Service Delivery to Cultural Diversity: Current Situation, Development and Examples from Three Northern European Countries
Baarnhielm S; Javo C; Mosko M-O
Article: EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRY. 2012;27:S70-S75
Cross-cultural training in mental health care - challenges and experiences from Sweden and Germany
Baarnhielm S; Moesko M
Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2012;109(22):1081
[The interpreter is central in the patient meeting--but no "culture expert". To communicate with the interpreter is part of everyday healthcare].
Bäärnhielm S
Article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2012;49(2):283-301
Use of the Cultural Formulation in Stockholm: A qualitative study of mental illness experience among migrants
Rosso MS; Baarnhielm S
Article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2012;49(1):105-120
The meaning of pain: A cultural formulation of a Syrian woman in Sweden
Baarnhielm S
Article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2009;46(3):406-428
The Cultural Formulation: A Model to Combine Nosology and Patients' Life Context in Psychiatric Diagnostic Practice
Baarnhielm S; Rosso MS
Journal article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2009;46(1):210-211
Book Review: Wen-Shing Tseng & Jon Streltzer (Eds.), Cultural Competence in Clinical Psychiatry. American Psychiatric Publishing, 2004. 202 pp. Paper: $39.00 (US), ISBN 1585621250
Bäärnhielm S
Article: CULTURE MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY. 2008;32(3):386-405
Introducing a psychological agenda for understanding somatic symptoms -: An area of conflict for clinicians in relation to patients in a multicultural community
Baarnhielm S; Ekblad S
Article: BMC PSYCHIATRY. 2008;8:52
Helpful and hindering factors for remission in dysthymia and panic disorder at 9-year follow-up: A mixed methods study
Svanborg C; Baarnhielm S; Wistedt AA; Lutzen K
Journal article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIGRATION, HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE. 2008;4(1):3-11
Human Rights and Access to Psychiatric Care for Adult Asylum Seekers: Guidelines to Improve Care
Ginsburg B; Bäärnhielm S
Article: NORDIC JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY. 2008;62(5):346-353
Barriers in the help-seeking process:: A multiple-case study of early-onset dysthymia in Sweden
Svanborg C; Rosso MS; Lutzen K; Wistedt AA; Baarnhielm S
Article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2005;42(3):394-419
Historical reflections on mental health care in Sweden: the welfare state and cultural diversity.
Bäärnhielm S; Ekblad S; Ekberg J; Ginsburg BE
Article: NORDIC JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY. 2005;59(5):350-356
Making sense of different illness realities: Restructuring of illness meaning among Swedish-born women
Bäärnhielm S
Article: CULTURE MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY. 2004;28(1):41-65
Restructuring illness meaning through the clinical encounter:: A process of disruption and coherence
Bäärnhielm S
Article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2004;41(1):120-129
The use of international videoconferencing as a strategy for teaching medical students about transcultural psychiatry.
Ekblad S; Manicavasagar V; Silove D; Bäärnhielm S; Reczycki M; Mollica R; Coello M
Article: JOURNAL OF ANXIETY DISORDERS. 2004;18(3):357-369
Cognitive-behavioral treatment of tortured asylum seekers:: a case study
Basoglu M; Ekblad S; Bäärnhielm S; Livanou M
Journal article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2002;39(4):484-500
Focus Group Interview Research in Transcultural Psychiatry: Reflections on Research Experiences
Ekblad S; Bäärnhielm S
Journal article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2002;39(4):469-483
Qualitative Research, Culture and Ethics: A Case Discussion
Baarnhielm S; Ekblad S
Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2002;99(8):818-819
[Something is missing! Cultural diversity does affect the care].
Ekblad S; Bäärnhielm S; Theorell T
Article: CULTURE MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY. 2000;24(4):431-452
Turkish migrant women encountering health care in stockholm:: A qualitative study of somatization and illness meaning
Bäärnhielm S; Ekblad S
Article: NORDIC JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY. 2000;54(6):423-430
Making sense of suffering: Illness meaning among somatizing Swedish women in contact with local health care services
Bäärnhielm S
Journal article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 1998;95(14):1532-1534
[Mental illness among immigrants and refugees. Are needs and available care adequate?].
Bäärnhielm S; Saers K
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Review: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2024;121:23090
[Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (CPTSD) - a clinical update of knowledge].
Bäärnhielm S; Ramel B; Theunis E; Mijaljica G; Dyster-Aas J; K Arnberg F
Preprint: RESEARCH SQUARE. 2022
A qualitative study about Explanatory Models of alcohol use disorder among Ugandans
Rudenstrand H; Bäärnhielm S
Preprint: RESEARCH SQUARE. 2021
Impact on routine psychiatric diagnostic practice from implementing the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview: A pragmatic RCT in Sweden
Wallin MI; Galanti MR; Nevonen L; Lewis-Fernández R; Bäärnhielm S
Review: SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2021;56(6):913-930
Interventions to increase migrants' care-seeking behaviour for stigmatised conditions: a scoping review
Place V; Nabb B; Assel KV; Baarnhielm S; Dalman C; Hollander A-C
Book chapter: OXFORD TEXTBOOK OF MIGRANT PSYCHIATRY. 2021;p. 439-448
Separate or integrated services?
Bäärnhielm S; Mösko M; Vaage AB
Book chapter: INTERCULTURAL PSYCHOTHERAPY. 2020;p. 131-149
Adopting an Intercultural Perspective in Mental Healthcare
Bäärnhielm S; Johansson Metso F; Hollander A-C
Conference publication: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2019;29:98
A mixed-method evaluation study of a comprehensive cross-cultural training program in Stockholm
Tewelde J; Dahlin M; Baarnhielm S
Book chapter: ADVANCES IN PSYCHIATRY. 2019;p. 637-655
Transcultural Psychiatry: Refugee, Asylum Seeker and Immigrant Patients over the Globe
Schouler-Ocak M; Laban CJ; Bäärnhielm S; Kastrup MC; Dein S; Wintrob R
Published conference paper: NORDIC JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY. 2018;72(sup1):S9-S12
Clinical challenges in cultural psychiatry - searching for meaning, searching for methods^†
Baarnhielm S; Sundvall M
Conference publication: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2017;28:185
Psychiatric care utilisation among migrants and Swedish born
Mackay E; Hollander A; Baarnhielm S; Kirkbride J; Dalman C
Conference publication: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2017;27
Psychiatric care utilisation among migrants and Swedish born
Mackay E; Hollander AC; Dalman C; Kirkbride J; Baarnhielm S
Other: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2016;53(3):412-413
Suicidal Behaviour of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in Europe
Baarnhielm S
Conference publication: EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRY. 2015;30:623
Evaluation of Cross-cultural Psychiatric Training of Staff in Mental Health Care and Refugee Reception in Sweden
Baarnhielm S; Edlund AS; Ioannou M; Dahlin M
Book chapter: TRAUMA AND MIGRATION. 2015;p. 39-55
Cross-Cultural Communication with Traumatised Immigrants
Bäärnhielm S; Mösko M
Review: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2012;109(42):1892-1894
[Anxiety can not be directly translated. Diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorder in multicultural health care settings].
Bäärnhielm S
Other: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2009;46(1):210-211
Cultural Competence in Clinical Psychiatry.
Baarnhielm S
Conference publication: EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRY. 2007;22:S60
The challenge of cultural diversity and psychiatric assessment
Baarnhielm S
Book chapter: SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN DIALOGUE. 2005;p. 161-174
Seeking Health Care: Practical Steps Taken By A Woman In An Immigration Context
Baarnhielm S
Doctoral thesis: 2003
Clinical encounters with different illness realities : qualitative studies of illness and restructuring of illness meaning among two cultural groups of female patients in a multicultural area of Stockholm
Bäärnhielm S
Conference publication: EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRY. 2002;17:94S
Caregivers' encounter with somatic communication of mental ill health in a multicultural community
Bäärnhielm S; Ekblad S

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Affiliated to Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2025-2028

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Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2018
Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2003
Licentiate Degree, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2000

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