Kjetil Moen
Research
My research interests relates to interconnections between the existential, the social and the intrapsychic. Research focus is on relationship-intense work, and in particular how working in boundary situations actualizes existential and moral philosophical concerns among the professionals. My research is characterized by qualitative research approaches.
Research areas:
Professional relations in welfare and healthcare, Psychosocial Studies, Reflective Practice, Qualitative methods, Health care ethics
Current research project:
2019-2025: Practitioners of coercion: How use of coercion informs mental health care professionals and their practice.
Through a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach, in-depth biographical-narrative interviews in combination with expressive writing, the study explores how health professionals working in mental health experience, describe and reflect upon patient encounters involving use of coercion. Part of the exploration will be how the health professional's moral judgements relate to the context(s) in which (s)he is situated.
Both those exercising coercion through physical restraint and involuntary medication (nurses, professionals without health profession) and those formally making the decisions (psychiatrists and specialists in psychology) are enrolled in the study.
Selected publications:
Kjetil Moen (2018). Death at Work : Existential and psychosocial perspectives on End-of-life care.. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-90325-5
Kjetil Moen (2019). Å arbeide med døden I Alt som lever må dø : døden som tverrfaglig kunnskapsfelt. Scandinavian Academic Press. ISBN 9788230402344. s. 85-115
Kjetil Moen (2020). Biographical research at the boundary: A careful listening for the micro, meso and macro in End-of-life care I An Ecology of Life and Learning: Discourses, dialogue and diversity in biographical research (Brills, Forthcoming)
