Rehabilitation is a specialized field that encompasses the individual, service organization, and health policy framework. Our research primarily focus on rehabilitation at the individual and service level.
The research group employs an interdisciplinary approach to (re)habilitation, with a strong emphasis on perspectives from the humanities and social sciences perspectives that allows us to examine dilemmas, challenges, and opportunities within the rehabilitation field.
The group employs a variety of research methods, with a particular emphasis in qualitative approaches, such as in-depth interviews, focus-group interviews, observational studies and document analyses.
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The group aims to contribute to new knowledge within the field of (re)habilitation in order to improve the quality of life for individuals in need of (re)habilitation services.
The research activity covers areas such as:
- Children in need of lifelong follow-up – child and family centered approach. Central themes are children’s opportunities for participation in everyday life, partnership with the child and the family in interprofessional collaboration, and services that support and strengthen the child and the family.
- Long term conditions – experiences, treatment, and recovery. Central themes are illness narratives, communication and interaction in health care practices, young adults with musculoskeletal pain, young adults and mental health, user involvement, interdisciplinary cooperation, and health promotion.
- Service Development, cross-professional division of labor and user participation. Central themes are, for example, how health services are planned and carried out in specialist and municipal care. Studies on professions representing different services and levels concerned with new and old tasks in the health area. Patient and user involvement at all levels.
Projects
- Development of a care pathway for patients with hand osteoarthritis
- Health-promoting initiatives towards youths’ mental health
- Improving personalized treatment in health care for lower spine disorders
- Improving practices together (IMPRATO)
- The practice of interprofessional collaborations within primary health care for children with disabilities
- To touch and be touched: Communication and interaction in physiotherapy practice
- Young adults with musculoskeletal pain and physiotherapy in primary health care: Body and culture
Cooperation
- The Faculty of Education and International Studies at OsloMet
- Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Norway
- The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH)
- VID Specialized University, Norway
- Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL)
- Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
- Tilburg University, Netherlands
- University of Brighton, England
- University of Capetown, South Africa
- University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- University of Iceland
- University of Manitoba, Canada
- University of Southern Denmark
- University of Toronto, Canada
