Karin Fängström
Associated Researcher at Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences; Social Medicine/CHAP
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 65 76
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 469 77 82
- E-mail:
- karin.fangstrom@pubcare.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC, Husargatan 3, Uppsala
- Postal address:
- Box 564
751 22 Uppsala
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Short presentation
I am a licensed psychologist and have done my PhD in CHAP. My research concerns preschool children and I am involved in several projects where children make their voices heard. This can be about children's experiences of their home situation or how they feel about interventions in care or welfare. I am also responsible for developing and evaluating a new health service model for early intervention for children aged 1.5-6 years with neurodevelopmental problems.
Keywords
- barn
- föräldraskapsstöd
- in my shoes
- intervjumetoder
Biography
Young children often have difficulty in having their voices heard with regard to questions that concern them, for example, how they experience interventions within preventative care and healthcare. Therefore, it is important to find simple and good methods to be able to evaluate the interventions from the child’s perspective.
In My Shoes (IMS) is a computer-assisted interview tool developed specifically to help children talk about their experiences and emotions in different situations and with different people. The trained interviewer uses the computer program together with the child as the same time as questions are posed and the child responds.
I my project, we have investigated the feasibility and validation of IMS through interviewing children aged 4-5 years old about what they remember from their latest visit at the Child Health Center. In the first study, we explored the feasibility of IMS. In the second study, we validate IMS through comparing the IMS interviews with standard verbal interviews. The third study aims to investigate the subgroup of shy children and if they benefit from being interviewed with IMS. The fourth study will examine the interaction between the child and the interviewer in the interviews.
Research
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Nuvarande forskningprojekt handlar om att ta fram, prova och utvärdera en föräldrakurs som riktar sig till föräldrar med barn i åldern 2-6 år som har neuropsykiatriska svårigheter. Kursen tas fram tillsammans med mödra- och barnhälsovårdspsykologer specialpedagoger, BHV-sjuksköterskor samt utifrån föräldrars och barns behov. Kursen har provats och utvärderats kvalitativt.
Publications
Recent publications
- "Daddy comforts me" (2024)
- 'Of course you crash' (2024)
- Parenting children with disabilities in Sweden (2024)
- 'They Yell and I Yell Back' (2023)
- Family-Based Intervention for Substance Using Parents (2023)
All publications
Articles
- "Daddy comforts me" (2024)
- 'Of course you crash' (2024)
- Parenting children with disabilities in Sweden (2024)
- 'They Yell and I Yell Back' (2023)
- Family-Based Intervention for Substance Using Parents (2023)
- Are We Ready to Really Hear the Voices of Those Concerned? (2023)
- Patterns of mental health problems and well-being in children with disabilities in Sweden (2023)
- Successful implementation of parenting support at preschool (2022)
- Social workers’ perspectives on a medical home model for children and adolescents in out of home care (2021)
- The feasibility of the In My Shoes computer assisted interview for eliciting evaluative content in interviews with young children (2020)
- Children want parents to ask for permission before 'sharenting' (2020)
- Evaluation of the Teaching Recovery Techniques community-based intervention for unaccompanied refugee youth experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms (Swedish UnaccomPanied yOuth Refugee Trial; SUPpORT) (2020)
- Evaluation of the teaching recovery techniques community-based intervention for accompanied refugee children experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms (Accompanied refugeeS In Sweden Trial; ASsIST) (2020)
- Is the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire with a Trauma Supplement a Valuable Tool in Screening Refugee Children for Mental Health Problems? (2019)
- Evaluation of a group intervention for unaccompanied refugee minors with PTSD symptoms in Sweden (2018)
- Teaching Recovery Techniques (2018)
- The computer-assisted interview In My Shoes can benefit shy preschool children's communication (2017)
- “And they gave me a shot, it really hurt” – Evaluative content in investigative interviews with young children (2017)
- 'I felt a little bubbly in my tummy' (2016)
- In My Shoes - Validation of a computer assisted approach for interviewing children (2016)
- Uppsala Triple P trial (2012)
- “They yell and I yell back”: Pre-schoolers’ voices from inside the coercive cycle