Anneli Silvén Hagström
Biographic Data
| ID | 307360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anneli Silvén Hagström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anneli Silvén |
| FAMILY NAME | Hagström |
| SIGNATURE | HAGSTRÖM A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0540-3576 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“It becomes a safe space”
Many bereaved adolescents struggle to comprehend their loss and adjust to life without the deceased. This study used narrative methods to evaluate the meaningfulness and impact of Alba—Youth in Grief, a co-developed self-management mobile app intended to support young grievers. Using the narratives of change method, developed to situate perceived intervention effects within biographical frameworks, we explored ten adolescents’ experiences of pare…
Managing the gap
A self-management mobile app for bereaved adolescents
This study investigated the feasibility of conducting a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a self-management mobile app for bereaved adolescents. Key areas assessed were recruitment, randomization, data collection, and intervention acceptability. In an internal pilot trial - where a pilot phase is embedded within a main trial to assess its feasibility - 36 adolescents aged 12-19 were randomized to use the app or a website with psychoeducatio…
I’m just one soldier of many in the battle against stigma’
Children whose parents have mental health challenges often experience stigma, which may be further intensified by additional marginalized identities. StigmaBeat is a co-designed online resource developed with rural young people to challenge such stigma and share lived experiences. This qualitative, narrative study explored six participants’ ‘narratives of change’ one year after their involvement in developing the resource. Participants described …
A life marked by early school leaving
Even in a welfare regime like Sweden's in the early 1980s, early school leavers not in education, employment or training experienced class-related and gendered working and living conditions, which created unequal conditions for health. Despite Sweden's active labour market policies and their own practices of agency, the participants still ended up NEET and with precarious working life paths. Labour market policies should prioritise reducing unemp…
Losing a parent to suicide
Parental suicide in childhood increases the risk of mental ill-health, substance use and premature mortality, particularly through suicide. Postvention supports tailored to the well-being and functioning of suicide-bereaved children and their remaining parents are thus of critical importance to counteract negative development. This explorative cross-sectional study seeks clinically relevant knowledge by investigating posttraumatic stress (PTS), s…
StigmaBeat
Little is known about the experience and impact of intersectional stigma experienced by rural young people (15-25 years) who have a parent with mental health challenges. The StigmaBeat project employed a co-design approach to create short films to identify and challenge mental health stigma from the perspective of young people who have experienced this phenomenon. The aim of this paper is to describe the co-design methodological approach used in …
Epistemic injustice in experiences of young people with parents with mental health challenges
Amongst the impacts of growing up with a parent with mental health challenges is the experience of stigma-by-association, in which children and young people experience impacts of stigmatisation due to their parent's devalued identity. This article seeks to expand our understanding of this issue through an abductive analysis of qualitative data collected through a codesign process with young people. Results indicate that young people's experiences…
A Narrative Evaluation of a Grief Support Camp for Families Affected by a Parent's Suicide
Background: Children of parents who suffer mental ill-health and die by suicide are vulnerable to developing psychological and social problems themselves; they also have a severely elevated risk of dying at a young age - particularly through suicide. This highlights the need to design supportive measures that can counteract such negative developments after a parent's suicide. Aim: This narrative evaluation of a grief support camp for families aff…
If I whistled in her ear she’d wake up’
This article aims to investigate what it means to grow up in an alcoholic family environment. Nineteen children aged 6–11 who participated in a psycho-educational programme in the 1990s for children living with parents who misuse alcohol were interviewed about their experiences in a longitudinal study. A narrative analysis of their life stories demonstrates how, on the one hand, they positioned themselves as ‘vulnerable victims’ exposed to their …
Why did he choose to die?”
This article analyzes from a narrative perspective how young people talk about their experience of parental suicide in different social contexts. The results show how these young grievers are preoccupied with the question of Why the parent committed suicide. Moreover, they tend primarily to interpret the suicide in line with stigmatizing discourses regarding Who is to blame, which has negative impacts on their identities. In contrast, a "meaning-…
Breaking the silence
‘Suicide stigma’ contributes to the silencing of parental suicide within family and social networks. This article departs from a narrative theoretical framework on grief and identity to analyse suicide-bereaved youths ‘breaking the silence’ through self-disclosure in self-initiated chat threads on the Internet, which is their way of actively seeking social support, telling of their experiences and opening up space for a renegotiation of the meani…
The self-murderer from Orminge”
Moral discourses, which operate to create difference among people, construct and reconstruct a “suicide stigma” whereby the suicide-bereaved are stigmatized in their social contexts and thus prevented from communicating their experience of loss. Departing from a performance-based pragmatic approach, this article uses Bamberg’s (1997) positioning theory to analyze a young woman’s performed memoir as her way of resisting this stigmatizing position.…
Epistemic injustice in experiences of young people with parents with mental health challenges
Amongst the impacts of growing up with a parent with mental health challenges is the experience of stigma-by-association, in which children and young people experience impacts of stigmatisation due to their parent's devalued identity. This article seeks to expand our understanding of this issue through an abductive analysis of qualitative data collected through a codesign process with young people. Results indicate that young people's experiences…
StigmaBeat
Little is known about the experience and impact of intersectional stigma experienced by rural young people (15-25 years) who have a parent with mental health challenges. The StigmaBeat project employed a co-design approach to create short films to identify and challenge mental health stigma from the perspective of young people who have experienced this phenomenon. The aim of this paper is to describe the co-design methodological approach used in …
If I whistled in her ear she’d wake up’
This article aims to investigate what it means to grow up in an alcoholic family environment. Nineteen children aged 6–11 who participated in a psycho-educational programme in the 1990s for children living with parents who misuse alcohol were interviewed about their experiences in a longitudinal study. A narrative analysis of their life stories demonstrates how, on the one hand, they positioned themselves as ‘vulnerable victims’ exposed to their …
Why did he choose to die?”
This article analyzes from a narrative perspective how young people talk about their experience of parental suicide in different social contexts. The results show how these young grievers are preoccupied with the question of Why the parent committed suicide. Moreover, they tend primarily to interpret the suicide in line with stigmatizing discourses regarding Who is to blame, which has negative impacts on their identities. In contrast, a "meaning-…
The self-murderer from Orminge”
Moral discourses, which operate to create difference among people, construct and reconstruct a “suicide stigma” whereby the suicide-bereaved are stigmatized in their social contexts and thus prevented from communicating their experience of loss. Departing from a performance-based pragmatic approach, this article uses Bamberg’s (1997) positioning theory to analyze a young woman’s performed memoir as her way of resisting this stigmatizing position.…
Breaking the silence
‘Suicide stigma’ contributes to the silencing of parental suicide within family and social networks. This article departs from a narrative theoretical framework on grief and identity to analyse suicide-bereaved youths ‘breaking the silence’ through self-disclosure in self-initiated chat threads on the Internet, which is their way of actively seeking social support, telling of their experiences and opening up space for a renegotiation of the meani…
Why did he choose to die?”
This article analyzes from a narrative perspective how young people talk about their experience of parental suicide in different social contexts. The results show how these young grievers are preoccupied with the question of Why the parent committed suicide. Moreover, they tend primarily to interpret the suicide in line with stigmatizing discourses regarding Who is to blame, which has negative impacts on their identities. In contrast, a "meaning-…
If I whistled in her ear she’d wake up’
This article aims to investigate what it means to grow up in an alcoholic family environment. Nineteen children aged 6–11 who participated in a psycho-educational programme in the 1990s for children living with parents who misuse alcohol were interviewed about their experiences in a longitudinal study. A narrative analysis of their life stories demonstrates how, on the one hand, they positioned themselves as ‘vulnerable victims’ exposed to their …
A Narrative Evaluation of a Grief Support Camp for Families Affected by a Parent's Suicide
Background: Children of parents who suffer mental ill-health and die by suicide are vulnerable to developing psychological and social problems themselves; they also have a severely elevated risk of dying at a young age - particularly through suicide. This highlights the need to design supportive measures that can counteract such negative developments after a parent's suicide. Aim: This narrative evaluation of a grief support camp for families aff…
A life marked by early school leaving
Even in a welfare regime like Sweden's in the early 1980s, early school leavers not in education, employment or training experienced class-related and gendered working and living conditions, which created unequal conditions for health. Despite Sweden's active labour market policies and their own practices of agency, the participants still ended up NEET and with precarious working life paths. Labour market policies should prioritise reducing unemp…
Losing a parent to suicide
Parental suicide in childhood increases the risk of mental ill-health, substance use and premature mortality, particularly through suicide. Postvention supports tailored to the well-being and functioning of suicide-bereaved children and their remaining parents are thus of critical importance to counteract negative development. This explorative cross-sectional study seeks clinically relevant knowledge by investigating posttraumatic stress (PTS), s…
StigmaBeat
Little is known about the experience and impact of intersectional stigma experienced by rural young people (15-25 years) who have a parent with mental health challenges. The StigmaBeat project employed a co-design approach to create short films to identify and challenge mental health stigma from the perspective of young people who have experienced this phenomenon. The aim of this paper is to describe the co-design methodological approach used in …
Epistemic injustice in experiences of young people with parents with mental health challenges
Amongst the impacts of growing up with a parent with mental health challenges is the experience of stigma-by-association, in which children and young people experience impacts of stigmatisation due to their parent's devalued identity. This article seeks to expand our understanding of this issue through an abductive analysis of qualitative data collected through a codesign process with young people. Results indicate that young people's experiences…
Managing the gap
A self-management mobile app for bereaved adolescents
This study investigated the feasibility of conducting a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a self-management mobile app for bereaved adolescents. Key areas assessed were recruitment, randomization, data collection, and intervention acceptability. In an internal pilot trial - where a pilot phase is embedded within a main trial to assess its feasibility - 36 adolescents aged 12-19 were randomized to use the app or a website with psychoeducatio…
I’m just one soldier of many in the battle against stigma’
Children whose parents have mental health challenges often experience stigma, which may be further intensified by additional marginalized identities. StigmaBeat is a co-designed online resource developed with rural young people to challenge such stigma and share lived experiences. This qualitative, narrative study explored six participants’ ‘narratives of change’ one year after their involvement in developing the resource. Participants described …
“It becomes a safe space”
Many bereaved adolescents struggle to comprehend their loss and adjust to life without the deceased. This study used narrative methods to evaluate the meaningfulness and impact of Alba—Youth in Grief, a co-developed self-management mobile app intended to support young grievers. Using the narratives of change method, developed to situate perceived intervention effects within biographical frameworks, we explored ten adolescents’ experiences of pare…
Psychology (12 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Family Support in Illness (7 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Mental health (7 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Narrative (5 works)