Anders G Broberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 120866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anders G Broberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anders G |
| FAMILY NAME | Broberg |
| SIGNATURE | BROBERG A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Psychology, Göteborg University, P.O. Box 500, SE-405 30 Goteborg, Sweden |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Assessing parental capacity in abusive fathers – A pilot study in child social welfare using an interview based on reflective functioning
A randomized controlled study of trauma focused cognitive behavioural therapy compared to enhanced treatment as usual with patients in child mental health care traumatized from family violence
This study compared the effectiveness of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) and enhanced treatment as usual (eTAU) in children and adolescents exposed to family violence and receiving mental health services. A total of 89 children, aged 5 to 17 years, with severe trauma symptoms participated with their non-offending caregiver in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing TF-CBT and eTAU. Children were assigned a DSM-IV diagno…
Effects of individual differences, society, and culture on youth‐rated problems and strengths in 38 societies
BACKGROUND: Clinicians increasingly serve youths from societal/cultural backgrounds different from their own. This raises questions about how to interpret what such youths report. Rescorla et al. (2019, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 28, 1107) found that much more variance in 72,493 parents' ratings of their offspring's mental health problems was accounted for by individual differences than by societal or cultural differences. Although p…
Safeguarding Children Subjected to Violence in the Family
Assessing risk, planning for safety and security, and aiding recovery for children subjected to violence in a family setting is a complex process. The aim of the article is to synthesize the current research literature about risks for children subjected to violence in the family and outline an empirical base for a holistic and practically usable model of risk assessments placing the individual child at the center. Such assessments need to recogni…
Traumatic and Adverse Attachment Childhood Experiences are not Characteristic of OCD but of Depression in Adolescents
Attachment, religiousness, and distress among the religious and spiritual
Using the Adult Attachment Interview, we explored differences in attachment, distress, and religiousness among groups of traditionally religious, New Age spiritual, and religiously syncretistic (high on both) participants (Ps) (N = 75). Religiously syncretistic Ps showed a preponderance of insecure attachment and were raised by non-religious parents, who were estimated as relatively insensitive. Moreover, religiously syncretistic Ps perceived a p…
Perceived Quality of Life and Health Complaints in Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Dissimilarity in Vulnerability
Naming the Unmentionable
Effects of a Group-Based Intervention on Psychological Health and Perceived Parenting Capacity among Mothers Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
This study evaluated a community-based treatment program in Sweden for mothers subjected to intimate partner violence. Results based on group means indicated that the mothers showed significantly reduced trauma and psychological symptoms and improved sense of coherence after participating in the program. Surprisingly, no improvement regarding perceived parental locus of control was found. Furthermore, as a complement to group statistics a reliabl…
Examining relations among attachment, religiosity, and new age spirituality using the Adult Attachment Interview
This study was the first to examine relations between attachment and religion-spirituality in adults using a developmentally validated attachment assessment, the Adult Attachment Interview. Security of attachment was expected to be linked to a religiosity-spirituality that is socially based on the parental relationships and reflects extrapolation of attachment experiences with sensitive parents to perceived relationships with a loving God. Insecu…
Physical Punishment and Maternal Beliefs in Sweden and Canada
The purpose of the present study was to examine the cultural embeddedness of the notions of hierarchy and solidarity in parent-child relationships at the macro and micro levels in two nations. Mothers'beliefs about and use of physical punishment in Sweden, where parental use of physical punishment has been prohibited by law, were compared to those found in Canada, where physical punishment is a legally sanctioned behaviour. Questionnaires were ad…
Predicting mother's use of physical punishment during mother-child conflicts in Sweden and Canada
Effects of day care on the development of cognitive abilities in 8-year-olds
In Göteborg, Sweden, 146 children (72 girls) were enrolled in a longitudinal study when they averaged 16 months of age. None of the children had experienced regular out-of-home care yet, but within 3 months, 54 entered center care and 33 entered family day care. Quality of home and out-of-home care environments, child temperament, and the development of verbal abilities were assessed regularly during preschool years. When they were 8 years old (2…
Interactional harmony at 7 and 10 months of age predicts security of attachment as measured by Q‐sort ratings
Fifty‐eight infants and their mothers were observed at home for 45 minutes at seven and ten months of age using a detailed behavioral checklist. During these observations, the degree of mutual interactional engagement was also rated on a 4‐point scale every 20 seconds. The attachment security of 38 infants was assessed at 13 months using mothers' reports on the Attachment Q‐set (AQS, Waters, 1987). Composite measures of mother‐infant interaction …
Child Care in Context
Effects of day care on the development of cognitive abilities in 8-year-olds
In Göteborg, Sweden, 146 children (72 girls) were enrolled in a longitudinal study when they averaged 16 months of age. None of the children had experienced regular out-of-home care yet, but within 3 months, 54 entered center care and 33 entered family day care. Quality of home and out-of-home care environments, child temperament, and the development of verbal abilities were assessed regularly during preschool years. When they were 8 years old (2…
Examining relations among attachment, religiosity, and new age spirituality using the Adult Attachment Interview
This study was the first to examine relations between attachment and religion-spirituality in adults using a developmentally validated attachment assessment, the Adult Attachment Interview. Security of attachment was expected to be linked to a religiosity-spirituality that is socially based on the parental relationships and reflects extrapolation of attachment experiences with sensitive parents to perceived relationships with a loving God. Insecu…
Naming the Unmentionable
Physical Punishment and Maternal Beliefs in Sweden and Canada
The purpose of the present study was to examine the cultural embeddedness of the notions of hierarchy and solidarity in parent-child relationships at the macro and micro levels in two nations. Mothers'beliefs about and use of physical punishment in Sweden, where parental use of physical punishment has been prohibited by law, were compared to those found in Canada, where physical punishment is a legally sanctioned behaviour. Questionnaires were ad…
Effects of a Group-Based Intervention on Psychological Health and Perceived Parenting Capacity among Mothers Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
This study evaluated a community-based treatment program in Sweden for mothers subjected to intimate partner violence. Results based on group means indicated that the mothers showed significantly reduced trauma and psychological symptoms and improved sense of coherence after participating in the program. Surprisingly, no improvement regarding perceived parental locus of control was found. Furthermore, as a complement to group statistics a reliabl…
Perceived Quality of Life and Health Complaints in Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Child Care in Context
Interactional harmony at 7 and 10 months of age predicts security of attachment as measured by Q‐sort ratings
Fifty‐eight infants and their mothers were observed at home for 45 minutes at seven and ten months of age using a detailed behavioral checklist. During these observations, the degree of mutual interactional engagement was also rated on a 4‐point scale every 20 seconds. The attachment security of 38 infants was assessed at 13 months using mothers' reports on the Attachment Q‐set (AQS, Waters, 1987). Composite measures of mother‐infant interaction …
Effects of day care on the development of cognitive abilities in 8-year-olds
In Göteborg, Sweden, 146 children (72 girls) were enrolled in a longitudinal study when they averaged 16 months of age. None of the children had experienced regular out-of-home care yet, but within 3 months, 54 entered center care and 33 entered family day care. Quality of home and out-of-home care environments, child temperament, and the development of verbal abilities were assessed regularly during preschool years. When they were 8 years old (2…
Predicting mother's use of physical punishment during mother-child conflicts in Sweden and Canada
Physical Punishment and Maternal Beliefs in Sweden and Canada
The purpose of the present study was to examine the cultural embeddedness of the notions of hierarchy and solidarity in parent-child relationships at the macro and micro levels in two nations. Mothers'beliefs about and use of physical punishment in Sweden, where parental use of physical punishment has been prohibited by law, were compared to those found in Canada, where physical punishment is a legally sanctioned behaviour. Questionnaires were ad…
Examining relations among attachment, religiosity, and new age spirituality using the Adult Attachment Interview
This study was the first to examine relations between attachment and religion-spirituality in adults using a developmentally validated attachment assessment, the Adult Attachment Interview. Security of attachment was expected to be linked to a religiosity-spirituality that is socially based on the parental relationships and reflects extrapolation of attachment experiences with sensitive parents to perceived relationships with a loving God. Insecu…
Dissimilarity in Vulnerability
Naming the Unmentionable
Effects of a Group-Based Intervention on Psychological Health and Perceived Parenting Capacity among Mothers Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
This study evaluated a community-based treatment program in Sweden for mothers subjected to intimate partner violence. Results based on group means indicated that the mothers showed significantly reduced trauma and psychological symptoms and improved sense of coherence after participating in the program. Surprisingly, no improvement regarding perceived parental locus of control was found. Furthermore, as a complement to group statistics a reliabl…
Attachment, religiousness, and distress among the religious and spiritual
Using the Adult Attachment Interview, we explored differences in attachment, distress, and religiousness among groups of traditionally religious, New Age spiritual, and religiously syncretistic (high on both) participants (Ps) (N = 75). Religiously syncretistic Ps showed a preponderance of insecure attachment and were raised by non-religious parents, who were estimated as relatively insensitive. Moreover, religiously syncretistic Ps perceived a p…
Perceived Quality of Life and Health Complaints in Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Traumatic and Adverse Attachment Childhood Experiences are not Characteristic of OCD but of Depression in Adolescents
Effects of individual differences, society, and culture on youth‐rated problems and strengths in 38 societies
BACKGROUND: Clinicians increasingly serve youths from societal/cultural backgrounds different from their own. This raises questions about how to interpret what such youths report. Rescorla et al. (2019, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 28, 1107) found that much more variance in 72,493 parents' ratings of their offspring's mental health problems was accounted for by individual differences than by societal or cultural differences. Although p…
Safeguarding Children Subjected to Violence in the Family
Assessing risk, planning for safety and security, and aiding recovery for children subjected to violence in a family setting is a complex process. The aim of the article is to synthesize the current research literature about risks for children subjected to violence in the family and outline an empirical base for a holistic and practically usable model of risk assessments placing the individual child at the center. Such assessments need to recogni…
A randomized controlled study of trauma focused cognitive behavioural therapy compared to enhanced treatment as usual with patients in child mental health care traumatized from family violence
This study compared the effectiveness of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) and enhanced treatment as usual (eTAU) in children and adolescents exposed to family violence and receiving mental health services. A total of 89 children, aged 5 to 17 years, with severe trauma symptoms participated with their non-offending caregiver in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing TF-CBT and eTAU. Children were assigned a DSM-IV diagno…
Assessing parental capacity in abusive fathers – A pilot study in child social welfare using an interview based on reflective functioning
Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (8 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (7 works) · Poison control (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (6 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works)