Bengt Karlsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 99997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bengt Karlsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bengt |
| FAMILY NAME | Karlsson |
| SIGNATURE | KARLSSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South-Eastern Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8435-6463 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
User Participation in Social Housing Work and Practices: A Scoping Review of Qualitative Studies from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
This scoping review maps qualitative research on user participation in social housing work and practices in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. User participation has become a central value in Nordic welfare states, promoted as a means of strengthening empowerment, improving services, and reinforcing democratic ideals. While all Nordic countries share some features, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden represent the core of the Social Democratic welfare regime, …
‘Longing for wholeness’ – inpatients’ descriptions of spiritual experiences in specialized mental health care: A phenomenological study
Mental health care has seen an increasing recognition that professionals should support patients’ spiritual needs. This implies working towards greater acceptance of spiritual concerns and emphasizes the importance of spirituality for many clients, while no longer dismissing the spiritual content of psychotic communication as merely ‘illness’. In mental health care, research reveals a need to develop new, respectful, and less stigmatizing ways of…
There Are No Thresholds Here: Social Inclusion Among the Participants of a Community Sports Initiative
Community sports initiatives can promote social inclusion by facilitating low‐threshold participation in physical exercise with others. Due to social and systemic barriers, persons with experiences of mental health and substance use problems often have limited access to community arenas, such as those offering physical exercise. Community sports may counteract such inequities in practice. In Bergen, Norway, the community sports initiative Psykiat…
Everyone Is Welcome, Always: Self‐Reported Benefits of Participation and Associations Between Sense of Engagement, Social Inclusion, and Life Satisfaction Among the Members of a Community Sports Team
Community sports teams are low‐threshold arenas for involvement in physical activities with the potential to promote recovery among persons with experiences of mental health or substance use problems. This study focuses on a community sports team, Psykiatrialliansen (PA), based in Bergen, Norway, to explore how participation may relate to sense of engagement in everyday activities, social inclusion, and life satisfaction. A cross‐sectional study …
Experiences of spirituality of in- and out-patients in mental health facilities: A thematic synthesis of qualitative studies
Recent decades have seen a significant rise in interest in spirituality in different mental health contexts. A comprehensive systematic review by Milner, Crawford, Edgley, Hare-Duke, and Slade (2019) shows that a gap exists between professionals and service users in the value they place on spirituality. The aim of this article is to synthesize existing literature on how people with mental health issues experience spirituality as a resource. A sys…
A world of Palantir – ontological politics in the Danish police’s POL-Intel
When Palantir Technologies customized the Gotham platform into POL-INTEL, a data integration and analysis platform purchased and used by the Danish police, it also enforced a new ontology that simultaneously shaped the police organization and policing practices. In this context, the concept of ontology should be understood in a twofold, albeit interconnected, way: it stands for its usual philosophical burden, but also refers to a centralized conc…
Perspectives of healthcare professionals on cross-sectoral collaboration between mental health centers and municipalities: A qualitative study
Aims: This paper aims to explore the intricacies of cross-sectoral collaboration in mental health care, focusing on the perspectives of health professionals across various disciplines. It seeks to understand how collaboration can enhance service delivery and patient outcomes while identifying existing challenges. Background: The evolving healthcare landscape emphasizes the importance of integrating services across sectors, particularly in mental …
Toward an Experience-Based Model of Recovery and Recovery-Oriented Practice in Mental Health and Substance Use Care: An Integration of the Findings from a Set of Meta-Syntheses
A model of recovery and recovery-oriented practice has been developed based on three previously published meta-syntheses of experiences and processes of mental health and substance use recovery. The model integrates the findings of these three meta-syntheses into three components: experiences of recovery, processes of recovery-oriented practice, and social and material capital. The experiences of recovery involve being, doing, and accessing and a…
Healthcare Professionals’ Experiences with Patient Participation in a Mental Healthcare Centre: A Qualitative Study
This study illuminates the meaning of patient participation in a mental health centre based on the social interactions among nurses and other healthcare professionals. The approach can contribute to dealing with the challenges of incorporating patient participation as an ideology for all patients in a psychiatric context, which is important knowledge for healthcare professionals
Facilitator-coordinators’ or ‘umbilical cords’: Staff experiences of supporting desistance following release from prison
While research on supported desistance is increasing, little is known about practitioners’ experiences of facilitating change following release in Norway. This article seeks to expand this knowledge through the perspectives of probation caseworkers and staff of penal voluntary organizations. Despite their common challenges and shared ideals, the two groups experience varying ability to assist in change processes. While staff of voluntary organiza…
Nuances of fragmentation, (mis)recognition and closeness: Narratives of challenges and support during resettlement
The transition from prison to society tends to be tough and painful for people in resettlement and challenging to facilitate for professionals. The Norwegian Correctional Services aim for a continuous reentry focus throughout the prison sentence. Norway has been presented as one of the Nordic exceptional penal states, partly based on ‘the encouraging pattern of officer-inmate interactions’. However, this exceptional picture has been criticized fo…
Death Holds No Fear: Overdose Risk Perceptions Among People Who Inject Drugs
Drug overdose is an important public health problem. Despite well-known risk factors and various preventive measures, the overdose mortality rate has increased substantially in several countries worldwide over the past decade. There is therefore a need to understand overdoses on the basis of how people who inject drugs (PWID) perceive and experience risk. Based on qualitative interviews with 80 PWID recruited from low-threshold settings in Norway…
Recovery-Oriented Cross-Sectoral Network Meetings between Mental Health Hospital Professionals and Community Mental Health Professionals: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Healthcare professionals need to be supported to seek clarity in the understanding and operationalisation of a recovery-oriented approach, if the agenda is to be truly adopted and strengthened
Recovery-Oriented Practices in a Mental Health Centre for Citizens Experiencing Serious Mental Issues and Substance Use: As Perceived by Healthcare Professionals
recovery-oriented practice is understood as an approach where health professionals emphasise forming relationships based on trust, being hopeful for the users' future, spending time with users, and respecting users' experiences and knowledge from their own life. There are cross-pressures between different interests. The desire to meet the users' perspectives and respect these perspectives but at the same time live up to mental health centre purpo…
Solidarity now? Other stories about researchers, otherness, and polyphony in research
We are three researchers within the field of mental health. For the past 3 years, we have collaborated with colleagues in Greece on evaluating the pilot project Refugee Outreach Mental Health Team. Part of our role has been to evaluate how refugees and asylum seekers experience the treatment and support offered by the team. The findings from the evaluation have been presented in a published research report and we have thereby “completed our task.…
Part III: Recovery-Oriented Practices in Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: A Meta-Synthesis
In recent decades, recovery-oriented practice has become the major approach in mental health and substance abuse care, especially in community mental health and substance abuse services. Various models of recovery-oriented practice have come to form the basis of the integration of this approach in service settings. The study aims to elucidate the characteristics of recovery-oriented practice as experienced by participants in the practice. The met…
User Involvement in the Handover between Mental Health Hospitals and Community Mental Health: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Our results can contribute to dealing with the challenges of incorporating user involvement as an ideology in the handover between mental health hospitals and community mental health. There is a need to start forming a common language across sectors and, jointly, for professionals and users to draw up plans for intersectoral care
Part II: Living Life: A Meta-Synthesis Exploring Recovery as Processual Experiences
Recovery, a prominent concern in mental health care worldwide, has been variously defined, requiring further clarification of the term as processual. Few studies have comprehensively addressed the nature of recovery processes. This study aims to explore the nature and characteristics of experiences of recovery as processual. The method used is a form of qualitative meta-synthesis that integrates the findings from 28 qualitative studies published …
Part I: Dynamics of Recovery: A Meta-Synthesis Exploring the Nature of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Recovery
Recovery-oriented care has become a leading vision across countries. To develop services and communities in more recovery-oriented directions, enhanced understandings of recovery in terms of personal and social contexts are important prerequisites. The aim of this study is to explore the nature and characteristics of the experiences of recovery. The method used is a form of qualitative meta-synthesis that integrates the findings from multiple qua…
An Autoethnography on Being the Daughter of a Frail, Sick Mother in Transitional Care
The article reflects on and explores a daughter's experience of being the relative to a frail, sick elderly mother in Norway. Recent reforms of the Norwegian healthcare services have had a major impact on the relationship between patients, their families and healthcare workers. The daughter's experiences elucidate the failure of the primary healthcare service to interact with the specialist health service and the patients’ family. The article has…
Autoethnographies from the Neoliberal Academy: Rewilding, Writing and Resistance in Higher Education
The role of households in Nordic national risk assessments
Recovery-Oriented Intersectoral Care in Mental Health: As Perceived by Healthcare Professionals and Users
This study reveals that health professionals want to work in a recovery-oriented manner in intersectoral care, but several challenges appear which make achieving this aim difficult. A common understanding of recovery and how it should be carried out in intersectoral care does not exist. Care decisions are primarily made paternalistically, where the users' and relatives' voices are ignored. In an attempt to create coherence across sectors, interse…
School`s out with fever: Service provider perspectives of youth with mental health struggles
Youth struggling with mental health issues is a major concern in Norway and other Western countries. As is the increasing rate of youth unemployment combined with high rates of disengagement from education. Rather than receiving support to complete their education or find work, they are often given a psychiatric diagnosis that may camouflage the social nature of their problems. Therefore, a multidisciplinary approach to meeting the needs of the p…
The Color of Water: An Autoethnographically-Inspired Journey of My Becoming a Researcher
In this paper, the first author autoethnographically describes, discusses and reflects on her process of becoming a researcher based on her PhD journey. She explores how the development of knowledge and her understandings of what counts as knowledge is entangled with her personal and professional development. The second and third authors join with her to explore and comment on the ways in which her doctoral topic knowledge and her process of beco…
An Autoethnography on Being the Daughter of a Frail, Sick Mother in Transitional Care
The article reflects on and explores a daughter's experience of being the relative to a frail, sick elderly mother in Norway. Recent reforms of the Norwegian healthcare services have had a major impact on the relationship between patients, their families and healthcare workers. The daughter's experiences elucidate the failure of the primary healthcare service to interact with the specialist health service and the patients’ family. The article has…
My Mother's Skull Is Burning: A Story of Stories
Performing autoethnography is a dynamic and dialogic exercise, transgressing and exceeding traditional expectations of academic papers. In this freely spoken piece-of narratives, thoughts, poems, and reflections-you will meet three international mental health scholar-researchers seeking and deepening connection through friendship. The article began as a single story and developed, as stories often do, to become many stories. It is conversational,…
Aha! “take on Me’s”: Bridging the North sea with relational autoethnography
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how sharing stories of being a mental health professional and academic, based more broadly on serendipity and searching in life, can serve as means for bridging and developing cross-cultural understandings and collaborative work. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a relational autoethnography based on face-to-face and written conversational dialogue between five mental health academics from t…
Climate change, phenology, and butterfly host plant utilization
Knowledge of how species interactions are influenced by climate warming is paramount to understand current biodiversity changes. We review phenological changes of Swedish butterflies during the latest decades and explore potential climate effects on butterfly-host plant interactions using the Orange tip butterfly Anthocharis cardamines and its host plants as a model system. This butterfly has advanced its appearance dates substantially, and its m…
Perspectives of healthcare professionals on cross-sectoral collaboration between mental health centers and municipalities: A qualitative study
Aims: This paper aims to explore the intricacies of cross-sectoral collaboration in mental health care, focusing on the perspectives of health professionals across various disciplines. It seeks to understand how collaboration can enhance service delivery and patient outcomes while identifying existing challenges. Background: The evolving healthcare landscape emphasizes the importance of integrating services across sectors, particularly in mental …
The Color of Water: An Autoethnographically-Inspired Journey of My Becoming a Researcher
In this paper, the first author autoethnographically describes, discusses and reflects on her process of becoming a researcher based on her PhD journey. She explores how the development of knowledge and her understandings of what counts as knowledge is entangled with her personal and professional development. The second and third authors join with her to explore and comment on the ways in which her doctoral topic knowledge and her process of beco…
Copper-ore mining in Sweden since the pre-Roman Iron Age: Lake-sediment evidence of human activities at the Garpenberg ore field since 375 BCE
Transition to a Market Economy: The Link between Macro-Policies and Enterprise Response
Sickness absence and early retirement at two workplaces-effects of organisational intervention in Sweden
Welfare State Regimes, Gender, and Depression: A Multilevel Analysis of Middle and High Income Countries
Using the 2002 World Health Survey, we examine the association between welfare state regimes, gender and mental health among 26 countries classified into seven distinct regimes: Conservative, Southeast Asian, Eastern European, Latin American, Liberal, Southern/Ex-dictatorship, and Social Democratic. A two-level hierarchical model found that the odds of experiencing a brief depressive episode in the last 12 months was significantly higher for Sout…
Climate change, phenology, and butterfly host plant utilization
Knowledge of how species interactions are influenced by climate warming is paramount to understand current biodiversity changes. We review phenological changes of Swedish butterflies during the latest decades and explore potential climate effects on butterfly-host plant interactions using the Orange tip butterfly Anthocharis cardamines and its host plants as a model system. This butterfly has advanced its appearance dates substantially, and its m…
You notice that there is something positive about going to school’: How teachers’ kindness can promote positive teacher–student relationships in upper secondary school
This study aimed to obtain students’ first-person perspectives of their experience of positive teacher–student relationships (TSRs) in upper secondary school. We also explored their experiences of qualities of TSRs concerning students’ mental health and dropout from upper secondary school. We used a qualitative and participative approach, whereby key stakeholders were included as co-researchers. Seventeen students participated in semi-structured …
Copper-ore mining in Sweden since the pre-Roman Iron Age: Lake-sediment evidence of human activities at the Garpenberg ore field since 375 BCE
Aha! “take on Me’s”: Bridging the North sea with relational autoethnography
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how sharing stories of being a mental health professional and academic, based more broadly on serendipity and searching in life, can serve as means for bridging and developing cross-cultural understandings and collaborative work. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a relational autoethnography based on face-to-face and written conversational dialogue between five mental health academics from t…
School`s out with fever: Service provider perspectives of youth with mental health struggles
Youth struggling with mental health issues is a major concern in Norway and other Western countries. As is the increasing rate of youth unemployment combined with high rates of disengagement from education. Rather than receiving support to complete their education or find work, they are often given a psychiatric diagnosis that may camouflage the social nature of their problems. Therefore, a multidisciplinary approach to meeting the needs of the p…
The Color of Water: An Autoethnographically-Inspired Journey of My Becoming a Researcher
In this paper, the first author autoethnographically describes, discusses and reflects on her process of becoming a researcher based on her PhD journey. She explores how the development of knowledge and her understandings of what counts as knowledge is entangled with her personal and professional development. The second and third authors join with her to explore and comment on the ways in which her doctoral topic knowledge and her process of beco…
My Mother's Skull Is Burning: A Story of Stories
Performing autoethnography is a dynamic and dialogic exercise, transgressing and exceeding traditional expectations of academic papers. In this freely spoken piece-of narratives, thoughts, poems, and reflections-you will meet three international mental health scholar-researchers seeking and deepening connection through friendship. The article began as a single story and developed, as stories often do, to become many stories. It is conversational,…
Autoethnographies from the Neoliberal Academy: Rewilding, Writing and Resistance in Higher Education
The role of households in Nordic national risk assessments
Recovery-Oriented Intersectoral Care in Mental Health: As Perceived by Healthcare Professionals and Users
This study reveals that health professionals want to work in a recovery-oriented manner in intersectoral care, but several challenges appear which make achieving this aim difficult. A common understanding of recovery and how it should be carried out in intersectoral care does not exist. Care decisions are primarily made paternalistically, where the users' and relatives' voices are ignored. In an attempt to create coherence across sectors, interse…
Solidarity now? Other stories about researchers, otherness, and polyphony in research
We are three researchers within the field of mental health. For the past 3 years, we have collaborated with colleagues in Greece on evaluating the pilot project Refugee Outreach Mental Health Team. Part of our role has been to evaluate how refugees and asylum seekers experience the treatment and support offered by the team. The findings from the evaluation have been presented in a published research report and we have thereby “completed our task.…
Part III: Recovery-Oriented Practices in Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: A Meta-Synthesis
In recent decades, recovery-oriented practice has become the major approach in mental health and substance abuse care, especially in community mental health and substance abuse services. Various models of recovery-oriented practice have come to form the basis of the integration of this approach in service settings. The study aims to elucidate the characteristics of recovery-oriented practice as experienced by participants in the practice. The met…
User Involvement in the Handover between Mental Health Hospitals and Community Mental Health: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Our results can contribute to dealing with the challenges of incorporating user involvement as an ideology in the handover between mental health hospitals and community mental health. There is a need to start forming a common language across sectors and, jointly, for professionals and users to draw up plans for intersectoral care
Part II: Living Life: A Meta-Synthesis Exploring Recovery as Processual Experiences
Recovery, a prominent concern in mental health care worldwide, has been variously defined, requiring further clarification of the term as processual. Few studies have comprehensively addressed the nature of recovery processes. This study aims to explore the nature and characteristics of experiences of recovery as processual. The method used is a form of qualitative meta-synthesis that integrates the findings from 28 qualitative studies published …
Part I: Dynamics of Recovery: A Meta-Synthesis Exploring the Nature of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Recovery
Recovery-oriented care has become a leading vision across countries. To develop services and communities in more recovery-oriented directions, enhanced understandings of recovery in terms of personal and social contexts are important prerequisites. The aim of this study is to explore the nature and characteristics of the experiences of recovery. The method used is a form of qualitative meta-synthesis that integrates the findings from multiple qua…
An Autoethnography on Being the Daughter of a Frail, Sick Mother in Transitional Care
The article reflects on and explores a daughter's experience of being the relative to a frail, sick elderly mother in Norway. Recent reforms of the Norwegian healthcare services have had a major impact on the relationship between patients, their families and healthcare workers. The daughter's experiences elucidate the failure of the primary healthcare service to interact with the specialist health service and the patients’ family. The article has…
Recovery-Oriented Cross-Sectoral Network Meetings between Mental Health Hospital Professionals and Community Mental Health Professionals: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Healthcare professionals need to be supported to seek clarity in the understanding and operationalisation of a recovery-oriented approach, if the agenda is to be truly adopted and strengthened
Recovery-Oriented Practices in a Mental Health Centre for Citizens Experiencing Serious Mental Issues and Substance Use: As Perceived by Healthcare Professionals
recovery-oriented practice is understood as an approach where health professionals emphasise forming relationships based on trust, being hopeful for the users' future, spending time with users, and respecting users' experiences and knowledge from their own life. There are cross-pressures between different interests. The desire to meet the users' perspectives and respect these perspectives but at the same time live up to mental health centre purpo…
Toward an Experience-Based Model of Recovery and Recovery-Oriented Practice in Mental Health and Substance Use Care: An Integration of the Findings from a Set of Meta-Syntheses
A model of recovery and recovery-oriented practice has been developed based on three previously published meta-syntheses of experiences and processes of mental health and substance use recovery. The model integrates the findings of these three meta-syntheses into three components: experiences of recovery, processes of recovery-oriented practice, and social and material capital. The experiences of recovery involve being, doing, and accessing and a…
Healthcare Professionals’ Experiences with Patient Participation in a Mental Healthcare Centre: A Qualitative Study
This study illuminates the meaning of patient participation in a mental health centre based on the social interactions among nurses and other healthcare professionals. The approach can contribute to dealing with the challenges of incorporating patient participation as an ideology for all patients in a psychiatric context, which is important knowledge for healthcare professionals
Facilitator-coordinators’ or ‘umbilical cords’: Staff experiences of supporting desistance following release from prison
While research on supported desistance is increasing, little is known about practitioners’ experiences of facilitating change following release in Norway. This article seeks to expand this knowledge through the perspectives of probation caseworkers and staff of penal voluntary organizations. Despite their common challenges and shared ideals, the two groups experience varying ability to assist in change processes. While staff of voluntary organiza…
Nuances of fragmentation, (mis)recognition and closeness: Narratives of challenges and support during resettlement
The transition from prison to society tends to be tough and painful for people in resettlement and challenging to facilitate for professionals. The Norwegian Correctional Services aim for a continuous reentry focus throughout the prison sentence. Norway has been presented as one of the Nordic exceptional penal states, partly based on ‘the encouraging pattern of officer-inmate interactions’. However, this exceptional picture has been criticized fo…
Psychology (25 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Mental health (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (14 works) · Qualitative research (12 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (9 works)