Katarina Lindstedt
Position: Affiliated Researcher School/office: School of Medical SciencesEmail: katarina.lindstedt@oru.se
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About Katarina Lindstedt
Katarina Lindstedt is a licensed healthcare counsellor and IPT therapist. She obtained a doctoral degree in 2019 with her thesis on adolescents and restrictive eating disorders and is affiliated researcher at the School of Medical Sciences at Örebro University. She works at the Eating Disorders Unit at Region Örebro County and has a part-time postdoc position. Her research is linked to the University Healthcare Research Centre (UFC).
Research
Katarina Lindstedt’s research interests include psychiatry in general and eating disorders in particular. Other interests include clinical treatment research and qualitative research methods. Her current research projects include specifically a study on subjective experiences of eating disorders in relation to a genetic predisposition and negative energy balance; a study on conversation phenomena within interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT); and a study on patients and their support persons’ experiences of Temperament Based Therapy with Support (TBT-S) – an intensive form of therapy for persons with anorexia nervosa. These projects involve collaboration with national as well as international researchers.
Doctoral students
Katarina Lindstedt is assistant supervisor of PhD student Tanja Eriksson, specialist nurse, Region Örebro County, who is writing her thesis on the essence of the suicidal process and the relationship between suicidality, suicidal crises and coping strategies.
Assignments
Member of a scientific committee of the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (SBU), tasked with creating national guidelines for eating disorder treatment.
Publications
Articles in journals
- Lindstedt, K. , Forss, E. , Elwin, M. , Kjellin, L. & Gustafsson, S. A. (2020). Adolescents with full or subthreshold anorexia nervosa in a naturalistic sample: Treatment interventions and patient satisfaction. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 14 (1).
- Lindstedt, K. , Neander, K. , Kjellin, L. & Gustafsson, S. A. (2018). A life put on hold: adolescents' experiences of having an eating disorder in relation to social contexts outside the family. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 11, 425-437.
- Lindstedt, K. , Kjellin, L. & Gustafsson, S. A. (2017). Adolescents with full or subthreshold anorexia nervosa in a naturalistic sample: characteristics and treatment outcome. Journal of Eating Disorders, 5 (1).
- Choque Olsson, N. , Flygare, O. , Coco, C. , Görling, A. , Råde, A. , Chen, Q. , Lindstedt, K. , Berggren, S. & et al. (2017). Social Skills Training for Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 56 (7), 585-592.
- Lindstedt, K. , Neander, K. , Kjellin, L. & Gustafsson, S. A. (2015). Being me and being us: adolescents' experiences of treatment for eating disorders. Journal of Eating Disorders, 3 (9).
Conference papers
- Bulik, C. M. , Clinton, D. , Birgegård, A. , Lindstedt, K. , Monell, E. & Termorshuizen, J. (2023). SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA IN PATIENTS WITH HIGH VS LOW ANOREXIA NERVOSA POLYGENIC RISK. In: European Neuropsychopharmacology. Paper presented at World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG 2023), Montreal, Canada, October 10-14, 2023. (pp. S14-S14). Elsevier.
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Lindstedt, K. (2019). A life put on hold: inside and outside perspectives on illness, treatment, and recovery in adolescents with restrictive eating disorders. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University.