This research groups mission is to promote a sense of mattering and belonging where people can connect to a sense of meaning and purpose in ways that also contribute to the common good at a societal and global level.
Sociocultural approaches to mental health and human values
The research group is led by Olga Lehmann.
We are a group of transdisciplinary scholars, activists, and stakeholders interested in assuring that helpful mental health and well-being interventions are both inclusive and available for everyone, independently of their gender, diagnosis, age or cultural background. Our mission is to promote a sense of mattering and belonging where people can connect to a sense of meaning and purpose in ways that also contribute to the common good at a societal and global level. Therefore, we are also explicitly interested in individual, relational, community and structural changes that make interventions for mental health and well-being more helpful and more congruent with human values. The United Nation’s sustainable development goals (UN, n.d.) we contribute to are 3.4, 4.5, 5.5, 10.2 & 17.6
We have 4 lines of research in our research group. All our upcoming publications relate to at least one of these lines of research:
- Promotion of compassion & resilience in mental health & well-being
- Promotion of collective justice in mental health & well-being
- Promotion of trust, mattering, and belonging in mental health & well-being
- Promotion of creativity and imagination in mental health & well-being
Members from UiS
Department of Social Studies
Department of Social Studies
Department of Social Studies
Department of Social Studies
Department of Social Studies
Department of Social Studies
Department of Social Studies
Department of Social Studies
External members
- Liv Sand, Cand.Psychol, Ph.DLeader, BUP HINNA, SUS – Stavanger University Hospital
- Irene Kingswick, General Manager, ROS – Rådgivning om spiseforstyrrelser
- Trine Giving Kalstad, Director of public health and bereavement support, PhD Candidate, The Norwegian SIDS & Stillbirth Association, and Center for Crisis Psychology, University of Bergen
- Ottar Ness, Professor, Wellbeing and social sustainability, Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, NTNU, Norway
- Valeria Markova, Psychologist & Associate professor, Researcher at RVTS Vest, Norway & Associate Professor, University of Bergen
- Joao Costa Ribeiro, Assistant professor in design thinking and google design sprints, University of Bergen/Lean Innovation at GALP, Portugal
- Per-Einar Binder, Professor in Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Bergen
- Ingvild Salsvik Lehouillier, Professor in personality and Organizational Psychology, Department of Psychology, NTNU
- Vlad Glaveanu, Professor in Psychology, Dublin City University, Ireland