Rolf Holmqvist
Biographic Data
| ID | 88909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rolf Holmqvist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rolf |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmqvist |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMQVIST R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2093-2510 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The one that got away”- therapists’ experiences when patients suddenly drop out from psychotherapy: A thematic analysis
Sudden treatment dropouts often elicit negative emotions such as guilt, shame, and sorrow. They may also bring a sense of relief. Abrupt termination of therapy can affect therapists both professionally and personally, with the impact sometimes persisting long after the client has dropped out from therapy
Experiences in the relationship between foster children and foster parents in specialized foster care—Thematic analysis conducted on five minute speech sample-data
The relationship between children and young people in foster care and their foster parents is of great importance for the children’s and young person’s development. Very few studies exist of this relationship in a specialized foster care context • This study found that both the foster children, young people and their foster parents struggle with defining their relationship and relates to an idealized norm for what constitutes a ‘real’ family. • A…
What changes during specialized foster care? A study on adaptive functioning and emotional and social problems
Various models of specialized foster care have been developed, but research on them is limited. This longitudinal, exploratory study analysed data on adaptive functioning, emotional and social problems and self‐concept in a specialized foster care service in Sweden. The focus of the study was on the development of the children and young people in placement. The Adaptive Behaviour Assessment System (ABAS‐II) was used to measure adaptive functionin…
Obituary for Jeremy Safran
Reflective Functioning, Limit Setting, and Emotional Availability in Mother–Child Dyads
SYNOPSISObjective. There is a need for better understanding the relation between parents’ mentalizing about their child and their actual behavior toward the child. Specifically, it is important to understand the significance of mentalization about discrete parental challenges in comparison with mentalization about the relationship in general in relation to their interaction with the child. This study aimed to examine parental mentalization and ob…
Mentalizing in young offenders
In order to prevent relapse into criminality, it is important to understand what precedes criminal behavior. Two earlier studies found deficits in mentalizing ability to be related to violent and criminal actions. Mentalizing refers to the ability to make human behavior predictable and meaningful by inferring mental states (thoughts, feelings, etc.) as explaining behavior. In this study, mentalizing ability was assessed by rating 42 Adult Attachm…
Reflective functioning, affect consciousness, and mindfulness: Are these different functions
Aims: Concepts of mentalization, affect consciousness, and mindfulness have been increasingly emphasized as crucial in psychotherapy of diverse orientations. Different measures have been developed
From punishment to rewards? Treatment dilemmas at a youth detention home
The present article analyses staff members’ discourses on the treatment method token economy, as it is implemented at a detention home for young men. The study draws on interviews with eight staff members and on participant observations at the detention home. Using discursive psychology, the analysis centers on the staff members’ own constructions of token economy as well as paradoxes and dilemmas that appear in their talk. Two paradoxes were fou…
Variants of potentially traumatizing life events in eating disorder patients
Although many studies have found associations between trauma and eating disorders, it is important to study associations between the whole spectrum of potentially traumatic experiences and eating d
In Earlier Days Everyone Could Discipline Children, Now They Have Rights’: Caregiving Dilemmas of Guidance and Control in Urban Tanzania
Caregiving practices in Tanzania are potentially affected by socio‐demographic change such as urbanization and globalization. The aim of this study is to explore adult caregivers' discourses regarding the responsibility of caregiving, related to guidance and control of children in Tanzania. Data was collected in focus group discussions with parents and grandparents in an urban area of Tanzania. The analysis found two interpretative repertoires: g…
Being and becoming a responsible caregiver: Negotiating guidance and control in family interaction in Tanzania
This study explores how siblings in Tanzania actively engage in their own socialization through the negotiation and local design of caregiving practices and control between younger siblings (age 1-3), older siblings (age 3-13) and adults. Analyses of moment-to-moment embodied, multimodal sequences of interaction illustrate how caregiving responsibility is negotiated. The analysis is multidisciplinary drawing on concepts developed in the tradition…
Witnesses to genocide: Experiences of witnessing in the Rwandan gacaca courts
The aim of this exploratory study was to bring understanding to the experiences of witnesses who have given testimony in the post-genocide Rwandan gacaca courts. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 8 women. The Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis method was used, and resulted in 3 main findings: (a) Witnessing can have a negative impact on psychological health; (b) revealing the truth through gacaca can be perceived as emotionally dis…
Sibling negotiations and the construction of literacy events in an urban area of Tanzania
The care of corporal punishment: Conceptions of early childhood discipline strategies among parents and grandparents in a poor and urban area in Tanzania
This study investigates conceptions of early childhood discipline strategies discussed in focus groups with parents and grandparents in a poor urban area in Tanzania. A grounded theory analysis suggested a model that included four discipline strategies related to corporal punishment: to beat with care, to treat like an egg, as if beating a snake and the non-care of non-beating. In order to develop strategies to prevent corporal punishment in the …
The care of corporal punishment: Conceptions of early childhood discipline strategies among parents and grandparents in a poor and urban area in Tanzania
This study investigates conceptions of early childhood discipline strategies discussed in focus groups with parents and grandparents in a poor urban area in Tanzania. A grounded theory analysis suggested a model that included four discipline strategies related to corporal punishment: to beat with care, to treat like an egg, as if beating a snake and the non-care of non-beating. In order to develop strategies to prevent corporal punishment in the …
From punishment to rewards? Treatment dilemmas at a youth detention home
The present article analyses staff members’ discourses on the treatment method token economy, as it is implemented at a detention home for young men. The study draws on interviews with eight staff members and on participant observations at the detention home. Using discursive psychology, the analysis centers on the staff members’ own constructions of token economy as well as paradoxes and dilemmas that appear in their talk. Two paradoxes were fou…
Witnesses to genocide: Experiences of witnessing in the Rwandan gacaca courts
The aim of this exploratory study was to bring understanding to the experiences of witnesses who have given testimony in the post-genocide Rwandan gacaca courts. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 8 women. The Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis method was used, and resulted in 3 main findings: (a) Witnessing can have a negative impact on psychological health; (b) revealing the truth through gacaca can be perceived as emotionally dis…
What changes during specialized foster care? A study on adaptive functioning and emotional and social problems
Various models of specialized foster care have been developed, but research on them is limited. This longitudinal, exploratory study analysed data on adaptive functioning, emotional and social problems and self‐concept in a specialized foster care service in Sweden. The focus of the study was on the development of the children and young people in placement. The Adaptive Behaviour Assessment System (ABAS‐II) was used to measure adaptive functionin…
Reflective Functioning, Limit Setting, and Emotional Availability in Mother–Child Dyads
SYNOPSISObjective. There is a need for better understanding the relation between parents’ mentalizing about their child and their actual behavior toward the child. Specifically, it is important to understand the significance of mentalization about discrete parental challenges in comparison with mentalization about the relationship in general in relation to their interaction with the child. This study aimed to examine parental mentalization and ob…
In Earlier Days Everyone Could Discipline Children, Now They Have Rights’: Caregiving Dilemmas of Guidance and Control in Urban Tanzania
Caregiving practices in Tanzania are potentially affected by socio‐demographic change such as urbanization and globalization. The aim of this study is to explore adult caregivers' discourses regarding the responsibility of caregiving, related to guidance and control of children in Tanzania. Data was collected in focus group discussions with parents and grandparents in an urban area of Tanzania. The analysis found two interpretative repertoires: g…
Sibling negotiations and the construction of literacy events in an urban area of Tanzania
The care of corporal punishment: Conceptions of early childhood discipline strategies among parents and grandparents in a poor and urban area in Tanzania
This study investigates conceptions of early childhood discipline strategies discussed in focus groups with parents and grandparents in a poor urban area in Tanzania. A grounded theory analysis suggested a model that included four discipline strategies related to corporal punishment: to beat with care, to treat like an egg, as if beating a snake and the non-care of non-beating. In order to develop strategies to prevent corporal punishment in the …
Witnesses to genocide: Experiences of witnessing in the Rwandan gacaca courts
The aim of this exploratory study was to bring understanding to the experiences of witnesses who have given testimony in the post-genocide Rwandan gacaca courts. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 8 women. The Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis method was used, and resulted in 3 main findings: (a) Witnessing can have a negative impact on psychological health; (b) revealing the truth through gacaca can be perceived as emotionally dis…
Sibling negotiations and the construction of literacy events in an urban area of Tanzania
Variants of potentially traumatizing life events in eating disorder patients
Although many studies have found associations between trauma and eating disorders, it is important to study associations between the whole spectrum of potentially traumatic experiences and eating d
In Earlier Days Everyone Could Discipline Children, Now They Have Rights’: Caregiving Dilemmas of Guidance and Control in Urban Tanzania
Caregiving practices in Tanzania are potentially affected by socio‐demographic change such as urbanization and globalization. The aim of this study is to explore adult caregivers' discourses regarding the responsibility of caregiving, related to guidance and control of children in Tanzania. Data was collected in focus group discussions with parents and grandparents in an urban area of Tanzania. The analysis found two interpretative repertoires: g…
Being and becoming a responsible caregiver: Negotiating guidance and control in family interaction in Tanzania
This study explores how siblings in Tanzania actively engage in their own socialization through the negotiation and local design of caregiving practices and control between younger siblings (age 1-3), older siblings (age 3-13) and adults. Analyses of moment-to-moment embodied, multimodal sequences of interaction illustrate how caregiving responsibility is negotiated. The analysis is multidisciplinary drawing on concepts developed in the tradition…
Mentalizing in young offenders
In order to prevent relapse into criminality, it is important to understand what precedes criminal behavior. Two earlier studies found deficits in mentalizing ability to be related to violent and criminal actions. Mentalizing refers to the ability to make human behavior predictable and meaningful by inferring mental states (thoughts, feelings, etc.) as explaining behavior. In this study, mentalizing ability was assessed by rating 42 Adult Attachm…
Reflective functioning, affect consciousness, and mindfulness: Are these different functions
Aims: Concepts of mentalization, affect consciousness, and mindfulness have been increasingly emphasized as crucial in psychotherapy of diverse orientations. Different measures have been developed
From punishment to rewards? Treatment dilemmas at a youth detention home
The present article analyses staff members’ discourses on the treatment method token economy, as it is implemented at a detention home for young men. The study draws on interviews with eight staff members and on participant observations at the detention home. Using discursive psychology, the analysis centers on the staff members’ own constructions of token economy as well as paradoxes and dilemmas that appear in their talk. Two paradoxes were fou…
Reflective Functioning, Limit Setting, and Emotional Availability in Mother–Child Dyads
SYNOPSISObjective. There is a need for better understanding the relation between parents’ mentalizing about their child and their actual behavior toward the child. Specifically, it is important to understand the significance of mentalization about discrete parental challenges in comparison with mentalization about the relationship in general in relation to their interaction with the child. This study aimed to examine parental mentalization and ob…
Obituary for Jeremy Safran
What changes during specialized foster care? A study on adaptive functioning and emotional and social problems
Various models of specialized foster care have been developed, but research on them is limited. This longitudinal, exploratory study analysed data on adaptive functioning, emotional and social problems and self‐concept in a specialized foster care service in Sweden. The focus of the study was on the development of the children and young people in placement. The Adaptive Behaviour Assessment System (ABAS‐II) was used to measure adaptive functionin…
Experiences in the relationship between foster children and foster parents in specialized foster care—Thematic analysis conducted on five minute speech sample-data
The relationship between children and young people in foster care and their foster parents is of great importance for the children’s and young person’s development. Very few studies exist of this relationship in a specialized foster care context • This study found that both the foster children, young people and their foster parents struggle with defining their relationship and relates to an idealized norm for what constitutes a ‘real’ family. • A…
The one that got away”- therapists’ experiences when patients suddenly drop out from psychotherapy: A thematic analysis
Sudden treatment dropouts often elicit negative emotions such as guilt, shame, and sorrow. They may also bring a sense of relief. Abrupt termination of therapy can affect therapists both professionally and personally, with the impact sometimes persisting long after the client has dropped out from therapy
Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Tanzania (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (3 works)