Ongoing projects

Project leader in KBT: Juni Raak Høiseth This is a project with focus on user involvement for kids and youth that uses mental health care services. About Room for user involvement From several patient and user surveys, we know that youth that uses mental health services often don’t experience a real possibility for user involvement.…

Project leader: Roger Santokhie The relatives of people with dementia gain a unique competence that is difficult to get in other ways. In this project, we have hired 4 (former) relatives to persons with dementia as Peer Support Workers, in the municipalities Frøya and Indre Fosen. In this project, we seek to prevent loneliness, and…

Project Team Managers: Dagfinn Bjørgen og Anne Hirrich Main goal: to improve knowledge about recovery at the system level, how to implement, organize, and operate recovery-oriented services in Norway. In this research project we aim to explore and enhance the value of using the CHIME framework, and recovery-thinking/principles for transforming recovery-orientation of organizations, and improving…

Project Leader: Ingvild M. Kvisle Towards the end of 2018 KBT was commissioned to do a User Interviews User-survey in Trondheim Municipality. We were to interview people living in assisted housing, people being assisted by the mastery team, and people who previously lived in assisted housing, but have moved out and are now only using…

Project Team Managers: Dagfinn Bjørgen and Ingvild Kvisle In the summer of 2018 KBT and Nidaros DPS started outlining a project to reduce the use of coercion in mental health care, and to explore challenges regarding out-patient involuntary commitment. The main goal of the project is to find what patients subjected to out-patient involuntary commitment…

Project Team Managers: Dagfinn Bjørgen In the spring of 2018 KBT established a partnership with the Departmental Attending Physician in the department of Østmarka, St. Olavs Hospital. We want to create a method for reflection groups consisting of the staff at Østmarka and people that have experienced involuntary commitment. The aim is to give patients…

Project Manager: Dagfinn Bjørgen Project Team Members: Karl Johan Johansen and Ingvild M. Kvisle The goal of the project is to develop and describe new ways of service innovation and user driven innovation. We want to develop services based on the recovery philosophy and what feels helpful and supportive from a user perspective. The mapping…

Project Manager: Bente Hasle Co-researchers: Betina Haug Olson, Juni Raak Høiseth, Aida Tesfai, Rigmor Dyrnes and Christina Kildal This is a research project in collaboration with Associate Professor of Social Sciences Bente Hasle of the Institute of Social Sciences at Høgskulen i Volda and Mental Helse Ungdom [A Mental Health Organization for young people]. We…

Project Manager: Karl Johan Johansen and Dagfinn Bjørgen Project Team Members: Anne B. Plathe, Ingvild M. Kvisle and Christina Kildal KBT, Sagatun Peer-driven Center, Vårres Regional Peer-driven Center, Bikuben Regional Peer-driven Center, ROM-Agder and are working to become Recovery hubs. The Recovery hubs will serve as resource- and competence bases for recovery. We want to…

Project Manager: Dagfinn Bjørgen Since 1998 the User Interviews User-method has been used to collect the experiences from around 2000 users of different mental health care services. In 2013 the synthesis “Hva mener brukere av psykisk helsetjenester er en god tjeneste?” [What is a good mental health service according to service users?] was published in…