Internet Psychiatry, where team leader Erik Forsell is responsible for research and development, has for nearly 20 years treated tens of thousands of patients via the internet from across the country, and has successfully implemented around ten different treatments and support programs that have become permanent parts of the healthcare services offered nationally. As all assessment and treatment take place digitally, the unit has a nationwide reach.
Our research concerns, in part, developing, evaluating, and implementing new treatments based on the needs of psychiatry, quality assuring and maintaining implemented treatments, as well as investigating innovative new ways to improve the treatments themselves or the way we work with delivering treatments, so that more patients can receive care that is as good and effective as possible.
To achieve this, we conduct, among other things:
Mechanistic studies, which aim to understand how the treatments actually lead to improvements.
Assessment, matching, and prediction, in order to understand which patient will benefit from which treatment and how we can best match the patient to their most effective treatment.
Studies on how the patient and the psychologist understand and engage with the theoretical model on which a treatment is based, and on how important this is for the outcome.
