Trude Klevan

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at University of South-Eastern Norway

Recovery Colleges (RCs) are learning-based mental health recovery communities, located globally. However, evidence on RC effectiveness outside Western, educated, industrialised, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) countries is limited. This study aimed to evaluate associations between cultural characteristics and RC fidelity, to understand how culture imp...

This commentary highlights two cross-cultural issues identified from our global mental health (GMH) research, RECOLLECT (Recovery Colleges Characterisation and Testing) 2: self-enhancement and ingroup biases. Self-enhancement is a tendency to maintain and express unrealistically positive self-views. Ingroup biases are differences in one’s evaluatio...

Purpose The aim of this study is to explore the characteristics of what is experienced in mental health recovery-oriented places and how these characteristics can facilitate social connections and participation. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative study has an explorative, interpretive and collaborative design. Dyadic interviews and parti...

Recovery Colleges (RCs) are learning-based mental health recovery communities. RCs are supported by a variety of organisations including primary and secondary healthcare, non-governmental organisations, and education providers, and are located in many countries. The evidence base for how RCs can help mental health recovery is under-developed, espec...

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, an...

Research on mental health recovery points to an interdependent relationship between experiences of meaning and experiences of recovery; meaning in everyday life promotes recovery, and recovery promotes meaning in everyday life. In this study we address the following question: What do people with mental challenges find meaningful in their everyday l...

Through a double interpretation of a focus group interview, the study explores how recovery-oriented professionals in a supported housing facility for people in dual recovery support the residents’ need for meaningfuless in everyday life, and how this work may also facilitate the professionals’ own need for meaningfuless. Findings suggest that prof...

Gjennom den norske velferdsstaten har offentlige myndigheter tatt ansvar for borgernes liv og velferd. Skole og utdanning er garantert for den enkelte, og om man blir syk, trenger hjelp eller på annen måte ikke klarer seg selv, er risikoen for den enkelte redusert. Alle borgere er garantert goder, tjenester og en viss trygghet gjennom det sikkerhet...

Gjennom den norske velferdsstaten har offentlige myndigheter tatt ansvar for borgernes liv og velferd. Skole og utdanning er garantert for den enkelte, og om man blir syk, trenger hjelp eller på annen måte ikke klarer seg selv, er risikoen for den enkelte redusert. Alle borgere er garantert goder, tjenester og en viss trygghet gjennom det sikkerhet...

Gjennom den norske velferdsstaten har offentlige myndigheter tatt ansvar for borgernes liv og velferd. Skole og utdanning er garantert for den enkelte, og om man blir syk, trenger hjelp eller på annen måte ikke klarer seg selv, er risikoen for den enkelte redusert. Alle borgere er garantert goder, tjenester og en viss trygghet gjennom det sikkerhet...

Although literature exists on the methodological development of autoethnographers in the classroom context, little has been written about achieving such development in online networks of dispersed individuals, and the social psychological difficulties between senior members of such networks that might ensue. This conversational autoethnography deve...

Background Crisis resolution team (CRT) care in adult mental health services is intended to provide accessible and flexible short-term, intensive crisis intervention to service users experiencing a mental health crisis and involve their carers (next of kin). Research on users’ and especially carers’ experiences with CRT care is scarce and is mostly...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the daily lives and well-being of children and families. During the lockdown of Norway in spring 2020, many families were socially isolated and left with little support from their networks. Children and young people had limited contact with teachers, peers and other positive social contacts. T...

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 c...

Purpose The concept of recovery is commonly described as multifaceted and contested in the field of mental health and substance abuse. The aim of this study is to explore how understandings of recovery and recovery orientation of services are developed through daily practices and collaboration between service users and professionals. Methods Eight...

Mental health lived experience narratives are first-person accounts of people with experience of mental health problems. They have been published in journals, books and online, and used in healthcare interventions and anti-stigma campaigns. There are concerns about their potential misuse. A four-language systematic review was conducted of published...

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. Th...

This chapter sheds light on youth involvement in research and on how involvement and collaborative practices relate to the philosophy of science, concepts of knowledge and value-based issues. Different models and ways of youth involvement including examples of collaborative research with youth are presented and reflected upon. Youth involvement in...

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 f...

This article contributes methodological reflections on how dialogical and reflective approaches can enhance many voices in research. An epistemological assumption in research with a participatory design is that knowledge can be developed by collaborative processes between researchers and individuals with lived experiences. The study was conducted b...

Crisis resolution teams (CRTs) are a community-based service targeting adults experiencing acute mental health crises. The rationale for the development of CRTs is both value and efficacy based, suggesting that CRTs should contribute to the humanizing of mental health services and replace some acute hospital-based services with services in the comm...

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 ev...

The aim of this qualitative study was to explore subjective experiences of how friluftsliv can support processes of recovery for persons living with eating disorders. Eight participants with experiences with bulimia nervosa and/or binge-eating disorders, and with interests in nature and friluftsliv were interviewed twice, using 'going together' and...

The purpose of the study was to explore parents’ experiences with participation in the Circle of Security-Parenting program, and potential impacts on their parental practice. Semistructured interviews with four parents who had participated in the program were conducted. The participants described experiences of increased parental coping and positiv...

The method dyadic interviews involves interviewing a pair of participants, focusing explicitly on the interaction between them and how it develops data. Dyadic interviews with persons who are involved in ongoing, working relationships can be a feasible means of exploring research topics that are related to collaboration and collaborative practices....

Mental health issues among young people have received increasing attention in Norway as more are diagnosed with and report mental health problems. In this study, we focus on the personal and social recovery processes of young people with mental health difficulties. The aim of the study was to explore how young people and parents experience collabor...

Eating disorders can be understood as attempts to manage a problematic relationship with one’s own body. The objective of this qualitative study was to explore and discuss perspectives of embodying “experiences with nature” related to recovery in everyday life for persons experiencing eating disorders. The study was carried out in the context of a...

The focus of this autoethnographic paper is on its authors' experiences of running a conference workshop on Friendship as Method in Paraversity scholarship development. Using the workshop sequence as a framework and context for the paper enables a developing focus on a key emerging analytic issue. This is the tensions around the conception, use and...

The chapter builds on our already established use of friendship and conversation as autoethnographic methods. We deploy these to challenge the privileging of productivity '...over relationships in our reptilian, neoliberal, new public managed...universities, where the powerful and ruthless triumph over and often - at worst - destroy the nice folk,...

The article introduces the research method of autoethnography and discusses this method in light of the term “the age of evidence” and the use of randomized, controlled studies as the methodological backbone of this concept of evidence within health and social sciences. Through three autoethnographic stories, a clarification of the place of evidenc...

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 so...

This study explores how partners of persons with gambling problems experience the family's everyday life, focusing on family relations and parenting. Problem gambling creates a serious impact on household finances, social life and health, emotional and relational issues. Between 6 and 10 persons are directly affected by a person's gambling problems...

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...

In this paper, the first author (Trude Klevan) 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 aut...

This paper is a conversational autoethnography based on personal and written communication among six academics affiliated with the University of South-Eastern Norway. It explores how sharing personal stories of friendship through writing and talking can serve as a means for developing a broadened understanding of what friendship can be, at both a p...

Crisis resolution teams are a community-based service, targeting adults experiencing acute mental health crises. The rationale for the development of crisis resolution teams is both value and efficacy-based: crisis resolution teams should contribute to the humanizing of mental health services and to enhanced efficacy. This diversity in purpose appe...

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 autoethnograph...

The aim of this study was to obtain parents’ perspectives on the development and importance of teacher-student relationships (TSR) and parental involvement in upper secondary school. The study had a qualitative approach where 14 parents of upper secondary school students were interviewed. The data were analysed via a thematic analysis and organized...

The main aim of this thesis was to explore experiences of helpful help in mental health crises within the context of crisis resolution teams (CRTs). Helpful help has been explored from three different perspectives: 1) service users, 2) carers, and 3) CRT clinicians. These perspectives are represented through three different sub-studies in this thes...

Mental health services have recently undergone a transition from institution- to community-based care, and crisis resolution teams (CRTs) represent a community-based service that targets users experiencing an acute mental health crisis. The current study was undertaken to explore the service user experiences of helpful help provided by CRTs in a me...

Crisis resolution teams (CRTs) deliver acute mental health care in the community. This care implies collaboration with carers. The article explores experiences of mental health crisis from the carer’s perspective and what carers experience as helpful and/or unhelpful help from CRTs. In-depth interviews with carers are analyzed using a narrative app...