The department aims to provide knowledge on factors that promote human psychosocial health, inclusion, self-worth, vitality, and coping. We critically examine social conditions that lead to poor psychosocial health.
About the department
At the Department of Psychosocial Health, we offer education programmes highly relevant to today’s health challenges. The studies provide competence to work in various fields within psychosocial health such as social education, psychosocial health, mental health work, sexology, environmental therapy, addiction, family therapy, and psychosocial work with children and young people.
We believe in the co-creation of knowledge and have established collaborations with a range of local and international educational and research environments, private and public services, and user and carer organisations.
Our research spans important themes such as recovery, dialogic practices, social exclusion, mental health and addiction, family, life burdens and health, gender diversity and sexual health, youth psychosocial health, and environmental therapeutic work.
Contact
- siri.h.haugland@uia.no
- Phone
- +47 37 23 32 61