Rakel Eklund
Researcher at Department of Women's and Children's Health; Medical psychology and care science
- E-mail:
- rakel.eklund@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-9396-9800
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Short presentation
Rakel Eklund's research focuses on developing and evaluating psychosocial support interventions for families with dependent children in difficult life situations (e.g., severe illness, death and grief). With a special interest for children's rights, implementing UNCRC, children's active participation and their voices.
Keywords
- barn
- barn och familj
- psykosociala stödinsatser
- sorg
- specialistsjuksköterska
- utsatta livssituationer
Publications
Recent publications
- Death and grief in illustrated storybooks: an inventory of Swedish literature for young children (2024)
- The self-help app My Grief (2024)
- Surviving COVID-19 (2024)
- Psychometric evaluation of the Swedish Traumatic Grief Inventory Self‐Report Plus (TGI‐SR+) in bereaved parents (2024)
- Predictors of traumatic experiences among individuals experiencing pandemic-related stressors (2024)
All publications
Articles
- Death and grief in illustrated storybooks: an inventory of Swedish literature for young children (2024)
- The self-help app My Grief (2024)
- Surviving COVID-19 (2024)
- Psychometric evaluation of the Swedish Traumatic Grief Inventory Self‐Report Plus (TGI‐SR+) in bereaved parents (2024)
- Predictors of traumatic experiences among individuals experiencing pandemic-related stressors (2024)
- Development of a self-management mobile app for bereaved adolescents (2024)
- Utvärdering av självhjälpsappen "min sorg" för föräldrar som förlorat ett spädbarn (2023)
- Health-related quality of life after surviving intensive care for COVID-19 (2023)
- Experiences of being a severely ill parent of dependent children receiving care at home (2023)
- Daily uplifts during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
- My Grief App for Prolonged Grief in Bereaved Parents (2022)
- Children's experiences of the family talk intervention when a parent is cared for in palliative home care- (2022)
- The Family Talk Intervention in Pediatric Oncology (2022)
- Talking about death when a parent with dependent children dies of cancer (2022)
- Family bonding as a result of the family talk intervention in pediatric oncology (2022)
- Breaking the silence about illness and death (2022)
- The Family Talk Intervention in palliative home care when a parent with dependent children has a life-threatening illness (2021)
- Mobile App for Prolonged Grief among Bereaved Parents (2021)
- The Family Talk Intervention for families when a parent is cared for in palliative care (2020)
- Children's Self-Reports About Illness-Related Information and Family Communication When a Parent Has a Life-Threatening Illness. (2020)
- Children's Views Are Not Taken Into Account in Accordance With Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Family Talk Intervention When a Parent Is Cared for in Palliative Care. (2020)
- The family talk intervention in palliative care (2018)
- An integrative review of the literature on how eating disorders among adolescents affect the family as a system (2016)
Conferences
- P61 Development and evaluation of a mobile app to provide bereavement support for teenagers in grief – a study protocol (2022)
- O83 A Feasibility Study of the My Grief App for Prolonged Grief in Bereaved Parents in Sweden (2022)
- Daily uplifts during the COVID-19 pandemic: What is considered helpful in everyday life? (2021)
- Being the Child of a Parent with a Life-threatening Illness: (2019)
