Sverre Urnes Johnson

Clinical psychologist, Ph.D. Interest in clinical psychology, anxiety disorders and much more. Personal opinions.

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

3/3:

A big thank you to the committee for their time and for the rewarding discussions.

I also wish to thank @Psykologiskinst and Modum Bad Psychiatric Hospital for allowing me to pursue the double-degree specialisation.

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

2/3:
I'm extremely grateful to my supervisors @sverreuj, Asle Hoffart, OA Solbakken & additional PhD mentor Daniel J. Bauer (@curranbauer) for their exceptional support.

I'm also indebted to all the great collaborators & colleagues influencing my thinking throughout these years:

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

It's official! PhDone! 🐣👨‍🎓🎉

An honour to obtain my doctoral degree after having Professors Claudi Bockting (@clbockting), Anne Roefs (@EatingLab), Pål Ulleberg, and Silje Reme as the evaluating committee.

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

5 | We hope to obtain a more holistic view of factors that trigger & maintain mental disorders, including contextual risks external to the person & the within-person processes interacting together and with these stressors.

Links:

https://t.co/D2FT3xr2PE

https://t.co/e3vt6hSQd5

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

4 | To better understand these mechanisms, we will leverage studying the occurrence of critical events over a 15-year period in the same sample of individuals.

This includes critical events on a personal (eg. loss) & (inter)national scale (economic recession, pandemics, climate)

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

3 | We adapt a systems-based approach to understand the interactions between processes across the biopsychosocial level of analysis impacting the onset & maintenance of mental disorders.

Notably, processes leading to mental disorders are often triggered by contextual stressors.

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

2 | By combining

▶️ Electronic health record data
▶️ Micro-level (i.e. multiple times per day) &
▶️ Macro-level (i.e. monthly & annual) self-reported data, &
▶️ Natural language data

All in the same pool of participants, we (@sverreuj, Asle Hoffart & @MariekeHelmich) adapt ...

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

Pleasure to be interviewed by @OxPsychiatry University of Oxford about our new 15-year longitudinal study: The PACE Study

Obtaining multimodal data from a random sample of >15 000 adults, we aim to predict the onset & understand maintaining mechanisms of common mental disorders.

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

9 | You can apply for the position (Deadline June 10th) here:
https://t.co/yPkRpbVkrQ

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

8 | Importantly, you'll be working with a group of kind & warm people who are deeply enthusiastic about the field of clinical psychology, psychological methods, psychopathology & its treatment.

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

7 | The flexibility is high, salary is great (avg. gross monthly income for PhD's in Norway is ~4100 euros), and the Modum Bad and Oslo areas are both beautiful, including a mixture of urban city activities combined with beautiful landscapes.

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

6 | The project includes a massive set of longitudinal data (N > 10 000), with 24 months of repeated measurements on the general adult population with 9 main waves of data collection, and a total of 49 waves of data collection during its 24-month period (EMA/Diary study) to date.

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

5 | MAP-19 is one of the largest longitudinal investigations of mental health and adherence in the adult population during pandemic periods, consisting of a landmark multidisciplinary project in the intersection between clinical psychology and psychiatric epidemiology.

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

4 | The Project: The Norwegian COVID-19, Mental Health, & Adherence Project (MAP-19) is a large-scale project by Modum Bad Psychiatric Hospital and @Psykologiskinst, @UniOslo. The project was founded by Sverre, Asle & myself, & it's been a true pleasure working on it.

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

3 | Other great colleagues and enthusiastic team members with Twitter include @BirkelandMs, @KarianneVrabel @NSkjerdingstad, and @oyvindhalsoy & @nazrm + others not on Twitter:

https://t.co/vuJ3DZiZUE

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

2 | You’ll be working in the COPE lab (Modum Bad and @UniOslo) with @sverreuj, @MariekeHelmich, Asle Hoffart, myself & others, primarily interested in phase transitions in mental illness, and dynamic interactions between symptoms and core processes during the course of treatment.

[Omid V. Ebrahimi @OmidVEbrahimi]

🚨⚡️ PhD Position at the COPE lab:
1 | We are hiring & looking for someone interested in longitudinal modeling, EMA, & networks to investigate psychopathological mechanisms during the pandemic. Come work with us at Modum Bad Hospital & University of Oslo!
https://t.co/yPkRpccVQq

[Sverre Urnes Johnson @sverreuj]

@dsquintana @UniOslo Congratulations!

[UiO - Psykologisk Institutt @Psykologiskinst]

Hurra 🎉 ERC Consolidator Grant til professor @EivindY ved @PromentaC. Han er én av fire @UniOslo og én av to @UniOslo_SVfak som har fått den prestisjefulle bevilgningen. Les om prosjektet her: https://t.co/UWnmS0dlHJ

[Unnur Valdimarsdóttir @UnnurAValdimars]

Our paper is out! @ingibjorg @thoraspelund @COVIDMENT