Thematic units
Sleep research: etiology, epidemiology, and treatment of insomnia. Epidemiological studies of the public health consequences of sleep problems.
Health psychology research: psychosocial aspect in the prognosis and rehabilitation of cardiac disease, pain, gambling.
Anxiety: RCT of cognitive - behavioral based treatment (CBT) for different anxiety disorders, e.g. simple phobia/ odontofobia, panic disorders and social phobias in adults and social anxiety, separation anxiety, and generalized anxiety in children.
Process and outcome in psychotherapy: Studies of adherence, working alliance and outcome in different forms of psychological treatment (CBT, self-help programs).
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Anxiety disorders
BTR is running several RCTs of cognitive - behavioral based treatment (CBT) for different anxiety disorders, e.g. simple phobia/ odontofobia, panic disorders and social phobias in adults and social anxiety, separation anxiety, and generalized anxiety in children.
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Health psychology
BTR focuses on several aspects of psychosomatic medicine and health psychology. For example, BTR collaborates with Rikshospitalet in Oslo on patients undergoing heart transplantations.
