Juha Holma
Biographic Data
| ID | 1217231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juha Holma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juha |
| FAMILY NAME | Holma |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9731-0571 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Conflict Resolution Styles and Attitudes Towards Intimate Partner Violence
Factors reported by the participants in group therapy for intimate partner perpetrators as helping
Little is known about the factors that facilitate change in interventions designed for intimate partner perpetrators. This qualitative study examined factors perpetrators in a voluntary-based batterer programme had experienced as having helped them reduce their intimate partner violence. The data were drawn from video-recorded group meetings. The data comprised recordings of 30 videotaped weekly group sessions held over a two-year period. The dat…
Suicide attempt survivors’ recovery-related agency in the relational context of services
The concept of agency helped capture important aspects of suicidal individuals' recovery-related efforts and the role of services in facilitating or hindering them. The findings illuminate the value of viewing suicidal service users as agents of their own recovery process as well as the potential costs of ignoring this perspective in service delivery and design
Frame analysis of psychotherapists’ perspectives on the development of psychological disorders
The development of psychological disorders has been explained by several psychological theories and remains under debate. Psychotherapists, however, have insights into the emergence and development of psychological disorders that stem from both theory and practice. The constantly evolving field of psychotherapy prompts reconsideration, specifically when psychotherapists’ views on the development of disorders impacts their treatment approach. In a…
‘I became more aware of my actions’—A qualitative longitudinal study of a health psychological group intervention for patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
OBJECTIVES: To explore myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients' experiences of a health psychological group intervention and its usefulness, non-usefulness or harmfulness for illness management and adjustment. DESIGN: A qualitative longitudinal study using inductive content analysis. METHODS: Semistructured interviews were conducted with 10 adults. Interviews were conducted before the 16-week intervention, immediately…
Predicting the working alliance over the course of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy with the Rorschach Ego Impairment Index, self-reported defense style, and performance-based intelligence
Better therapeutic alliances are known to predict better treatment outcomes, but little knowledge still exists on the patient characteristics that lead to better alliances. In a sample of 128 outpatients assigned to long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy and suffering from mood and/or anxiety disorder, this study evaluated how the alliance, measured using the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI), is predicted by three different measures for assessing …
Retrospective Experiences of First-Episode Psychosis Treatment Under Open Dialogue-Based Services
Open Dialogue (OD) is an integrated approach to mental health care, which has demonstrated promising outcomes in the treatment of first-episode psychosis (FEP) in Finnish Western Lapland region. However, little is known how treatment under OD is retrospectively experienced by the service users themselves. To address this, twenty participants from the original Western Lapland research cohort diagnosed with psychosis (F20-F29) were asked about thei…
Female survivors’ experiences of authorities’ actions in cases of partner stalking
Previous studies have shown that civil authorities fail to understand the nature of stalking and the harmful consequences it causes victims. The aim of this study was to investigate how the victims of partner stalking had perceived the actions of civil authorities and the stalking investigation process. The data were drawn from conversations among members of an internet-based peer support group for female victims of partner stalking. We identifie…
Towards gender awareness in couple therapy and in treatment of intimate partner violence
Gender is the most pervasive classification of individuals and thus strongly defines couple relationships. Cultural discourses on couple relationships reproduce hierarchical gender differences, and couple distress is often linked to gendered power inequalities. At worst, gender is the basis for intimate partner violence (IPV). Generally, however, therapeutic interventions do not address the issues of gender and gendered power. This paper discusse…
Electrodermal Activity in Couple Therapy for Intimate Partner Violence
Affective Arousal During Blaming in Couple Therapy
Finnish Health Care Professionals’ Views of Patients Who Experience Family Violence
The aim of this study was to examine the beliefs health care personnel have about patients who experience family violence. This was done by analyzing the positions constructed for such patients using content analysis. The data comprise six focus groups conducted with physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists working in a maternity unit, a psychiatric ward, and an emergency department. The research team collected the data in 2006 in Fi…
Dominance and Dialogue in Couple Therapy for Psychological Intimate Partner Violence
Possibilities for Intervention in Domestic Violence
Violence is a serious problem, and social and health care providers are in a key position for implementing successful interventions. This qualitative study of 6 focus groups with professionals (n = 30) examines the health care professionals' ways of framing a domestic violence intervention. Of special interest here is how professionals see their own roles in the process of recognizing and helping victims of domestic violence. By using Erving Goff…
Discussions of Fatherhood in Male Batterer Treatment Group
The aim of this study was to examine how men who have perpetrated violence toward their partners and participated in batterer group talked about being a father and how they perceived their own fatherhood. The discussion in the group was analyzed qualitatively by using the methods of content analysis. In traditional fatherhood, they talked about avoidant, passiveness, distant, indifference, and authoritative controlling ways of acting. These men a…
Positions Constructed for a Female Therapist in Male Batterers' Treatment Group
How the gender of the therapist affects the treatment of intimately violent men has been little researched. In this study we examined the positions that batterers construct for a female therapist in batterers' group treatment. The data consisted of five videotaped therapy groups for male batterers. Three positions of a woman were constructed: woman in general; woman as spouse and woman personally as herself. These positions were often based on a …
Dialogical Views on Partner Abuser Treatment
Making sense of domestic violence intervention in professional health care
Intervening in domestic violence in the health care and social service settings is a complex and contested issue. In this qualitative, multidisciplinary study, the barriers to but also the possibilities for health care professionals in encountering victims of violence were scrutinised. The focus was on omissions in service structure and practices. The data consisted of six focus group interviews with nurses, physicians, social workers and psychol…
The Experience of Time in Acute Psychosis and Schizophrenia
Narrative Understanding in Acute Psychosis
The Sense of Agency and the Search for a Narrative in Acute Psychosis
The self-narrative and acute psychosis
Making sense of domestic violence intervention in professional health care
Intervening in domestic violence in the health care and social service settings is a complex and contested issue. In this qualitative, multidisciplinary study, the barriers to but also the possibilities for health care professionals in encountering victims of violence were scrutinised. The focus was on omissions in service structure and practices. The data consisted of six focus group interviews with nurses, physicians, social workers and psychol…
Narrative Understanding in Acute Psychosis
The Sense of Agency and the Search for a Narrative in Acute Psychosis
The self-narrative and acute psychosis
Dominance and Dialogue in Couple Therapy for Psychological Intimate Partner Violence
Positions Constructed for a Female Therapist in Male Batterers' Treatment Group
How the gender of the therapist affects the treatment of intimately violent men has been little researched. In this study we examined the positions that batterers construct for a female therapist in batterers' group treatment. The data consisted of five videotaped therapy groups for male batterers. Three positions of a woman were constructed: woman in general; woman as spouse and woman personally as herself. These positions were often based on a …
The Experience of Time in Acute Psychosis and Schizophrenia
Affective Arousal During Blaming in Couple Therapy
Retrospective Experiences of First-Episode Psychosis Treatment Under Open Dialogue-Based Services
Open Dialogue (OD) is an integrated approach to mental health care, which has demonstrated promising outcomes in the treatment of first-episode psychosis (FEP) in Finnish Western Lapland region. However, little is known how treatment under OD is retrospectively experienced by the service users themselves. To address this, twenty participants from the original Western Lapland research cohort diagnosed with psychosis (F20-F29) were asked about thei…
Electrodermal Activity in Couple Therapy for Intimate Partner Violence
Possibilities for Intervention in Domestic Violence
Violence is a serious problem, and social and health care providers are in a key position for implementing successful interventions. This qualitative study of 6 focus groups with professionals (n = 30) examines the health care professionals' ways of framing a domestic violence intervention. Of special interest here is how professionals see their own roles in the process of recognizing and helping victims of domestic violence. By using Erving Goff…
Dialogical Views on Partner Abuser Treatment
The self-narrative and acute psychosis
The Sense of Agency and the Search for a Narrative in Acute Psychosis
The Experience of Time in Acute Psychosis and Schizophrenia
Narrative Understanding in Acute Psychosis
Making sense of domestic violence intervention in professional health care
Intervening in domestic violence in the health care and social service settings is a complex and contested issue. In this qualitative, multidisciplinary study, the barriers to but also the possibilities for health care professionals in encountering victims of violence were scrutinised. The focus was on omissions in service structure and practices. The data consisted of six focus group interviews with nurses, physicians, social workers and psychol…
Positions Constructed for a Female Therapist in Male Batterers' Treatment Group
How the gender of the therapist affects the treatment of intimately violent men has been little researched. In this study we examined the positions that batterers construct for a female therapist in batterers' group treatment. The data consisted of five videotaped therapy groups for male batterers. Three positions of a woman were constructed: woman in general; woman as spouse and woman personally as herself. These positions were often based on a …
Dialogical Views on Partner Abuser Treatment
Discussions of Fatherhood in Male Batterer Treatment Group
The aim of this study was to examine how men who have perpetrated violence toward their partners and participated in batterer group talked about being a father and how they perceived their own fatherhood. The discussion in the group was analyzed qualitatively by using the methods of content analysis. In traditional fatherhood, they talked about avoidant, passiveness, distant, indifference, and authoritative controlling ways of acting. These men a…
Finnish Health Care Professionals’ Views of Patients Who Experience Family Violence
The aim of this study was to examine the beliefs health care personnel have about patients who experience family violence. This was done by analyzing the positions constructed for such patients using content analysis. The data comprise six focus groups conducted with physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists working in a maternity unit, a psychiatric ward, and an emergency department. The research team collected the data in 2006 in Fi…
Dominance and Dialogue in Couple Therapy for Psychological Intimate Partner Violence
Possibilities for Intervention in Domestic Violence
Violence is a serious problem, and social and health care providers are in a key position for implementing successful interventions. This qualitative study of 6 focus groups with professionals (n = 30) examines the health care professionals' ways of framing a domestic violence intervention. Of special interest here is how professionals see their own roles in the process of recognizing and helping victims of domestic violence. By using Erving Goff…
Affective Arousal During Blaming in Couple Therapy
Towards gender awareness in couple therapy and in treatment of intimate partner violence
Gender is the most pervasive classification of individuals and thus strongly defines couple relationships. Cultural discourses on couple relationships reproduce hierarchical gender differences, and couple distress is often linked to gendered power inequalities. At worst, gender is the basis for intimate partner violence (IPV). Generally, however, therapeutic interventions do not address the issues of gender and gendered power. This paper discusse…
Electrodermal Activity in Couple Therapy for Intimate Partner Violence
Female survivors’ experiences of authorities’ actions in cases of partner stalking
Previous studies have shown that civil authorities fail to understand the nature of stalking and the harmful consequences it causes victims. The aim of this study was to investigate how the victims of partner stalking had perceived the actions of civil authorities and the stalking investigation process. The data were drawn from conversations among members of an internet-based peer support group for female victims of partner stalking. We identifie…
Predicting the working alliance over the course of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy with the Rorschach Ego Impairment Index, self-reported defense style, and performance-based intelligence
Better therapeutic alliances are known to predict better treatment outcomes, but little knowledge still exists on the patient characteristics that lead to better alliances. In a sample of 128 outpatients assigned to long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy and suffering from mood and/or anxiety disorder, this study evaluated how the alliance, measured using the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI), is predicted by three different measures for assessing …
Retrospective Experiences of First-Episode Psychosis Treatment Under Open Dialogue-Based Services
Open Dialogue (OD) is an integrated approach to mental health care, which has demonstrated promising outcomes in the treatment of first-episode psychosis (FEP) in Finnish Western Lapland region. However, little is known how treatment under OD is retrospectively experienced by the service users themselves. To address this, twenty participants from the original Western Lapland research cohort diagnosed with psychosis (F20-F29) were asked about thei…
Frame analysis of psychotherapists’ perspectives on the development of psychological disorders
The development of psychological disorders has been explained by several psychological theories and remains under debate. Psychotherapists, however, have insights into the emergence and development of psychological disorders that stem from both theory and practice. The constantly evolving field of psychotherapy prompts reconsideration, specifically when psychotherapists’ views on the development of disorders impacts their treatment approach. In a…
‘I became more aware of my actions’—A qualitative longitudinal study of a health psychological group intervention for patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
OBJECTIVES: To explore myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients' experiences of a health psychological group intervention and its usefulness, non-usefulness or harmfulness for illness management and adjustment. DESIGN: A qualitative longitudinal study using inductive content analysis. METHODS: Semistructured interviews were conducted with 10 adults. Interviews were conducted before the 16-week intervention, immediately…
Factors reported by the participants in group therapy for intimate partner perpetrators as helping
Little is known about the factors that facilitate change in interventions designed for intimate partner perpetrators. This qualitative study examined factors perpetrators in a voluntary-based batterer programme had experienced as having helped them reduce their intimate partner violence. The data were drawn from video-recorded group meetings. The data comprised recordings of 30 videotaped weekly group sessions held over a two-year period. The dat…
Suicide attempt survivors’ recovery-related agency in the relational context of services
The concept of agency helped capture important aspects of suicidal individuals' recovery-related efforts and the role of services in facilitating or hindering them. The findings illuminate the value of viewing suicidal service users as agents of their own recovery process as well as the potential costs of ignoring this perspective in service delivery and design
Conflict Resolution Styles and Attitudes Towards Intimate Partner Violence
Psychology (19 works) · Psychotherapist (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (9 works) · Poison control (9 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works)