Signe Hjelen Stige
Biographic Data
| ID | 110009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Signe Hjelen Stige |
| GIVEN NAMES | Signe Hjelen |
| FAMILY NAME | Stige |
| SIGNATURE | STIGE S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6628-4793 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Experiential Trajectories of Weight Gain
This qualitative study explores how people in Norway seeking treatment for ‘obesity’ experience and understand their weight development in a life-course perspective. Participants were adults ( N = 10) who had recently attended a specialist lifestyle intervention. The study employed a hermeneutic phenomenological approach. Semi-structured in-depth life story interviews were conducted and were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis and narrativ…
The researcher as instrument - how our capacity for empathy supports qualitative analysis of transcripts
In this article we draw on literature from philosophy, history, and psychology to argue that empathy supports qualitative analysis of transcripts in several ways. We discuss examples of these processes both with data that we have co-created with our participants and data where we have not interacted with participants during data collection. What we suggest is not a new approach to analysis. Rather, we argue that the deliberate use of empathy bear…
Grief trajectories among bereaved parents after the 2011 Utøya terror attack
This study took a qualitative approach to explore terror-bereaved parents' long-term experiences with grief. Data were drawn from a larger, longitudinal study, and interviews with 10 bereaved parents were selected based on their reported change in scores on Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG) over a period of 6.5 years, including the five parents with the largest change (group 1) and the five parents with the least change (group 2). Reflexive th…
Clients’ Perspective on Predetermined Time Limits for Therapy in the Context of the Norwegian Welfare System
Limited capacity and high demand for mental health care drive efforts to improve the efficiency of treatment and increasingly result in predetermined time limits for treatment, even in government-covered treatment in welfare systems. How do clients experience having predetermined time limits for psychotherapy? We analyzed the transcripts of interviews with 18 participants who had completed a return to work (RTW) intervention based on emotion-focu…
What Do Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Believe Will Facilitate Early Disclosure of Sexual Abuse
The purpose of this study was to explore what adult survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) believe will facilitate early disclosure of sexual abuse. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 12 adult survivors of CSA aged 18-57 years, and analyzed the transcripts using reflexive thematic analysis. Our analysis resulted in three main themes: Adults making it possible to tell; Adults daring to consider the unthinkable; and Conveying knowledge of …
A Qualitative Study of Use of Mindfulness to Reduce Long-Term Use of Habit-Forming Prescription Drugs
Objective: The aim of this study was to study how participants used a mindfulness-based program-Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention to reduce use of habit-forming prescription drugs after long-term use. We explored participants' descriptions of their post-intervention strategies for controlling medication intake. Method: Eighteen participants provided semi-structured qualitative interviews shortly after completion of the program and 13 participa…
Does it get easier over time? Psychologists’ experiences of working with suicidal patients
Does working with suicidal patients become easier with time? A representative national survey of 375 psychologists (72% women, Mean age 44 years) showed that years of experience ( r = -.13, p = .01) and frequency of contact with suicidal patients ( r = -.15, p = .004) correlated only weakly with perceived difficulty. Thematic analysis of respondents' descriptions of difficult suicide-related situations on an open survey-question yielded four them…
To say it out loud is to kill your own childhood.” – An exploration of the first person perspective of barriers to disclosing child sexual abuse
Background: Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a serious threat to a child’s existence and development. Yet, on average it takes 17 years before victims disclose their abuse. Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore barriers to disclose sexual abuse from the perspective of adult survivors of CSA. Participants and Setting: 12 survivors of CSA (nine women and three men), aged 18–57 years old. The study was conducted in one of the largest cities…
From Cumulative Strain to Available Resources
This article presents a narrative case study of a client with a history of multiple traumas and severe symptomatology, coupled with an ongoing recovery process. A hermeneutical–phenomenological approach was used to analyze two interviews with the participant over a period of 1 year, following a trauma treatment program. Her husband’s suicide in between the two interviews allowed for an exploration of the possible effects of new trauma exposure on…
How Do People Experience Early Intervention Services for Psychosis? A Meta-Synthesis
We conducted a study to explore how people diagnosed with first-episode psychosis experienced their contact with early intervention services for psychosis and the way these experiences relate to their recovery processes. Our aim was to integrate and describe the service users' experiences in a rigorous and comprehensive way. A broad literature search was performed in June and July 2016. After screening, 17 qualitative studies were included. We an…
The Process Leading to Help Seeking Following Childhood Trauma
In this article we explore the process leading to help seeking following childhood trauma among women who were currently in treatment. We interviewed 13 participants from six treatment groups for clients exposed to human-inflicted traumas. Transcripts were analyzed using a hermeneutical-phenomenological approach. Help seeking was initiated after a prolonged period of time (13 to 58 years after first trauma exposure), during which participants rel…
How Do People Experience Early Intervention Services for Psychosis? A Meta-Synthesis
We conducted a study to explore how people diagnosed with first-episode psychosis experienced their contact with early intervention services for psychosis and the way these experiences relate to their recovery processes. Our aim was to integrate and describe the service users' experiences in a rigorous and comprehensive way. A broad literature search was performed in June and July 2016. After screening, 17 qualitative studies were included. We an…
The Process Leading to Help Seeking Following Childhood Trauma
In this article we explore the process leading to help seeking following childhood trauma among women who were currently in treatment. We interviewed 13 participants from six treatment groups for clients exposed to human-inflicted traumas. Transcripts were analyzed using a hermeneutical-phenomenological approach. Help seeking was initiated after a prolonged period of time (13 to 58 years after first trauma exposure), during which participants rel…
The researcher as instrument - how our capacity for empathy supports qualitative analysis of transcripts
In this article we draw on literature from philosophy, history, and psychology to argue that empathy supports qualitative analysis of transcripts in several ways. We discuss examples of these processes both with data that we have co-created with our participants and data where we have not interacted with participants during data collection. What we suggest is not a new approach to analysis. Rather, we argue that the deliberate use of empathy bear…
To say it out loud is to kill your own childhood.” – An exploration of the first person perspective of barriers to disclosing child sexual abuse
Background: Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a serious threat to a child’s existence and development. Yet, on average it takes 17 years before victims disclose their abuse. Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore barriers to disclose sexual abuse from the perspective of adult survivors of CSA. Participants and Setting: 12 survivors of CSA (nine women and three men), aged 18–57 years old. The study was conducted in one of the largest cities…
The Process Leading to Help Seeking Following Childhood Trauma
In this article we explore the process leading to help seeking following childhood trauma among women who were currently in treatment. We interviewed 13 participants from six treatment groups for clients exposed to human-inflicted traumas. Transcripts were analyzed using a hermeneutical-phenomenological approach. Help seeking was initiated after a prolonged period of time (13 to 58 years after first trauma exposure), during which participants rel…
From Cumulative Strain to Available Resources
This article presents a narrative case study of a client with a history of multiple traumas and severe symptomatology, coupled with an ongoing recovery process. A hermeneutical–phenomenological approach was used to analyze two interviews with the participant over a period of 1 year, following a trauma treatment program. Her husband’s suicide in between the two interviews allowed for an exploration of the possible effects of new trauma exposure on…
How Do People Experience Early Intervention Services for Psychosis? A Meta-Synthesis
We conducted a study to explore how people diagnosed with first-episode psychosis experienced their contact with early intervention services for psychosis and the way these experiences relate to their recovery processes. Our aim was to integrate and describe the service users' experiences in a rigorous and comprehensive way. A broad literature search was performed in June and July 2016. After screening, 17 qualitative studies were included. We an…
A Qualitative Study of Use of Mindfulness to Reduce Long-Term Use of Habit-Forming Prescription Drugs
Objective: The aim of this study was to study how participants used a mindfulness-based program-Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention to reduce use of habit-forming prescription drugs after long-term use. We explored participants' descriptions of their post-intervention strategies for controlling medication intake. Method: Eighteen participants provided semi-structured qualitative interviews shortly after completion of the program and 13 participa…
Does it get easier over time? Psychologists’ experiences of working with suicidal patients
Does working with suicidal patients become easier with time? A representative national survey of 375 psychologists (72% women, Mean age 44 years) showed that years of experience ( r = -.13, p = .01) and frequency of contact with suicidal patients ( r = -.15, p = .004) correlated only weakly with perceived difficulty. Thematic analysis of respondents' descriptions of difficult suicide-related situations on an open survey-question yielded four them…
To say it out loud is to kill your own childhood.” – An exploration of the first person perspective of barriers to disclosing child sexual abuse
Background: Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a serious threat to a child’s existence and development. Yet, on average it takes 17 years before victims disclose their abuse. Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore barriers to disclose sexual abuse from the perspective of adult survivors of CSA. Participants and Setting: 12 survivors of CSA (nine women and three men), aged 18–57 years old. The study was conducted in one of the largest cities…
Clients’ Perspective on Predetermined Time Limits for Therapy in the Context of the Norwegian Welfare System
Limited capacity and high demand for mental health care drive efforts to improve the efficiency of treatment and increasingly result in predetermined time limits for treatment, even in government-covered treatment in welfare systems. How do clients experience having predetermined time limits for psychotherapy? We analyzed the transcripts of interviews with 18 participants who had completed a return to work (RTW) intervention based on emotion-focu…
What Do Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Believe Will Facilitate Early Disclosure of Sexual Abuse
The purpose of this study was to explore what adult survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) believe will facilitate early disclosure of sexual abuse. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 12 adult survivors of CSA aged 18-57 years, and analyzed the transcripts using reflexive thematic analysis. Our analysis resulted in three main themes: Adults making it possible to tell; Adults daring to consider the unthinkable; and Conveying knowledge of …
Grief trajectories among bereaved parents after the 2011 Utøya terror attack
This study took a qualitative approach to explore terror-bereaved parents' long-term experiences with grief. Data were drawn from a larger, longitudinal study, and interviews with 10 bereaved parents were selected based on their reported change in scores on Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG) over a period of 6.5 years, including the five parents with the largest change (group 1) and the five parents with the least change (group 2). Reflexive th…
The researcher as instrument - how our capacity for empathy supports qualitative analysis of transcripts
In this article we draw on literature from philosophy, history, and psychology to argue that empathy supports qualitative analysis of transcripts in several ways. We discuss examples of these processes both with data that we have co-created with our participants and data where we have not interacted with participants during data collection. What we suggest is not a new approach to analysis. Rather, we argue that the deliberate use of empathy bear…
Experiential Trajectories of Weight Gain
This qualitative study explores how people in Norway seeking treatment for ‘obesity’ experience and understand their weight development in a life-course perspective. Participants were adults ( N = 10) who had recently attended a specialist lifestyle intervention. The study employed a hermeneutic phenomenological approach. Semi-structured in-depth life story interviews were conducted and were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis and narrativ…
Psychology (11 works) · Qualitative research (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychotherapist (7 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Thematic analysis (5 works)