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Matilda Wurm

Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences

Email: bWF0aWxkYS53dXJtO29ydS5zZQ==

Phone: +46 19 303508

Room: L2343

Research subject

Social Work

Research environments

Center for Health and Medical Psychology (CHAMP)

About Matilda Wurm

Matilda Wurm is a member of QueerPsy (external research group), SAOL, and the Center for Health and Medical Psychology (CHAMP). She graduated as a psychologist at Örebro University in 2011 and defended her thesis in health psychology in 2018.

Research

Matilda has a background in health psychology where she has researched comorbid pain and emotional problems with a transdiagnostic approach.

Her health psychology research has led to a focus on social factors in the development and maintenance of ill health, which has further developed an existing interest in social stressors that may be experienced by minorities such as LGBTQ+ people (minority stress).

Matilda is currently the primary investigator of a Forte-funded project "Minority stress and minority joy in transgender people: An intervention study" and is also involved in an AFA-funded project on minority stress and microaggressions in the workplace, as well as projects focusing on older LGBTQ+ people.

Queer Psychology in Sweden – QueerPsy

Teaching

Matilda teaches in the areas health psychology, developmental psychology, LGBTQ+, and related areas.

Active projects

Completed projects

Research groups

Publications

Articles in journals

Tyni, K. , Wurm, M. & Bratt, A. S. (2025). Existential dimensions of the lived experiences of transgender youths 13-16 years in a cisnormative Swedish context. International Journal of Transgender Health, 1-16. [BibTeX]
Huntley, R. , Svärd, A. , Petersson Hjelm, A. , Wurm, M. & Bratt, A. S. (2025). Lived Experiences of Older LGBTQI+ Adults Aged 60 or Older: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis. Journal of Homosexuality. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. , Bergbom, S. , Di Luigi, G. , Della Casa, V. & Malmquist, A. (2025). Minority Stress, General Stress, and Family Support: Associations With Mental Health and Quality of Life in LGBTQ+ Young Adults During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. [BibTeX]
Mejías Nihlén, T. , Lundberg, T. , Wurm, M. & Malmquist, A. (2025). Transgender and Gender-Diverse Individual's Experiences of Openness and Concealment at Work in Sweden. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. [BibTeX]
Tyni, K. , Wurm, M. & Sofia Bratt, A. (2024). A thematic analysis of the experiences of prepubertal transgender and gender-diverse children in Sweden. Journal of LGBT Youth. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. , Högström, J. , Tillfors, M. , Lindståhl, M. & Norell, A. (2024). An exploratory study of stressors, mental health, insomnia, and pain in cisgender girls, cisgender boys, and transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 65 (5), 884-892. [BibTeX]
Lundberg, T. , Malmquist, A. & Wurm, M. (2024). Exploring reflexive methodology as a pluralist approach to enhance mixed methods research on coping and livability among LGBTQ people in Sweden. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 21 (3), 328-356. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. , Lundberg, T. & Malmquist, A. (2024). Mikroaggressioner och hbtq – våld som blir vardag. Texter om våld (1), 57-68. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. , Lundberg, T. , Mejias Nihlén, T. & Malmquist, A. (2024). Minority joy, minority growth, and minority peace: Transgender and gender diverse people’s varied positive lived experiences. International Journal of Transgender Health, 1-16. [BibTeX]
Löfstrand, K. , Björk Brämberg, E. , Flink, I. , Wurm, M. & Bergbom, S. (2024). Providing a new transdiagnostic emotion-focused pain treatment in a clinical context: therapists' experiences of facilitators and barriers. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. [BibTeX]
Di Luigi, G. , Claréus, B. , Mejias Nihlén, T. , Malmquist, A. , Wurm, M. & Lundberg, T. (2024). Psychometric Exploration of the Swedish Translation of the Sexual Orientation Microaggressions Scale (SOMS), and a Commentary on the Validity of the Construct of Microaggressions. Journal of Homosexuality, 71 (14), 3230-3253. [BibTeX]
Malmquist, A. , Miscioscia, M. , Leal, D. , Tasker, F. , Bredenberg, C. , Gubello, A. , Gato, J. , Houghton, M. & et al. (2024). “Under House Arrest”: Mental Health and Minority Stress Experiences of LGBTQ+ Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Europe. Sexuality Research & Social Policy, 21 (3), 969-984. [BibTeX]
Malmquist, A. , Lundberg, T. & Wurm, M. (2023). Minority Stress and Microaggression Experiences among Sexual Minority Women in Sweden. Lambda Nordica, 28 (4), 71-99. [BibTeX]
Vázquez, I. , Gato, J. , Coimbra, S. , Tasker, F. , Barrientos, J. , Miscioscia, M. , Cerqueira-Santos, E. , Malmquist, A. & et al. (2023). Psychological Adjustment Profiles of LGBTQ+ Young Adults Residing with Their Parents during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20 (4). [BibTeX]
Malmquist, A. , Bredenberg, C. , Melin, J. , Wurm, M. , Tasker, F. & Gato, J. (2023). Queers in quarantine: Young LGBTQ+ people's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 64 (2), 150-159. [BibTeX]
Lundberg, T. , Wurm, M. & Malmquist, A. (2022). Att göra livet (över)levbart: Transpersoners ontiska, relationella och reflekterande arbete för att skapa minoritetsro och hantera utsatthet i vardagen. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 43 (1), 7-26. [BibTeX]
Gato, J. , Barrientos, J. , Tasker, F. , Miscioscia, M. , Cerqueira-Santos, E. , Malmquist, A. , Seabra, D. , Leal, D. & et al. (2021). Psychosocial Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health among LGBTQ+ Young Adults: A Cross-Cultural Comparison across Six Nations. Journal of Homosexuality, 68 (4), 612-630. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. , Anniko, M. , Tillfors, M. , Flink, I. & Boersma, K. (2018). Musculoskeletal pain in early adolescence: A longitudinal examination of pain prevalence and the role of peer-related stress, worry, and gender. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 111, 76-82. [BibTeX]
Malmquist, A. & Wurm, M. (2018). Regnbågsfamiljer: Familjer där föräldrarna är homo, bi, trans eller queer. Fokus på familien: Tidsskrift for familiebehandling, 46 (2), 113-132. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. , Klein Strandberg, E. , Lorenz, C. , Tillfors, M. , Buhrman, M. , Holländare, F. & Boersma, K. (2017). Internet delivered transdiagnostic treatment with telephone support for pain patients with emotional comorbidity: a replicated single case study. Internet Interventions, 10, 54-64. [BibTeX]
Edlund, S. , Wurm, M. , Holländare, F. , Linton, S. J. , Fruzzetti, A. E. & Tillfors, M. (2017). Pain patients´ experiences of validation and invalidation from physicians before and after multimodal pain rehabilitation: Associations with pain, negative affectivity and treatment outcome. Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 17, 77-86. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. , Edlund, S. , Tillfors, M. & Boersma, K. (2016). Characteristics and consequences of the co-occurrence between social anxiety and pain-related fear in chronic pain patients receiving multimodal pain rehabilitation treatment. Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 12, 45-52. [BibTeX]
Olofsson, M. E. , Wurm, M. & Boersma, K. (2016). Do responses to positive affect influence mood reactivity?: exploring cognitive response styles through a mood induction procedure. Nordic Psychology, 68 (4), 220-232. [BibTeX]
Lundberg, T. & Wurm, M. (2016). The formation of an LGBTQ network for psychologists in Sweden: A work in progress. Psychology of Sexualities Review, 7 (1), 29-40. [BibTeX]
Traczyk, M. , Wurm, M. & Ahonen, L. (2013). "Det är ju inget vi frågar efter som psykologer": psykologers upplevelse av klienter med könsöverskridande beteende. Lambda Nordica, 18 (3-4), 77-99. [BibTeX]

Articles, reviews/surveys

Tyni, K. , Wurm, M. , Nordström, T. & Bratt, A. S. (2024). A systematic review and qualitative research synthesis of the lived experiences and coping of transgender and gender diverse youth 18 years or younger. International Journal of Transgender Health, 25 (3), 352-388. [BibTeX]
Bratt, A. S. , Hjelm, A. P. , Wurm, M. , Huntley, R. , Hirakawa, Y. & Muraya, T. (2023). A Systematic Review of Qualitative Research Literature and a Thematic Synthesis of Older LGBTQ People's Experiences of Quality of Life, Minority Joy, Resilience, Minority Stress, Discrimination, and Stigmatization in Japan and Sweden. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20 (13). [BibTeX]

Chapters in books

Kindstedt, M. & Wurm, M. (2023). Att stötta barn som bryter mot normer. In: Edward Summanen; Matilda Wurm, Trans: Fakta, forskning och erfarenheter (pp. 116-133). Stockholm: Natur och kultur. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. & Lundberg, T. (2023). Bemötande. In: Edward Summanen; Matilda Wurm, Trans: Fakta, forskning och erfarenheter (pp. 97-111). Stockholm: Natur och kultur. [BibTeX]
Barker, M. & Wurm, M. (2023). Ickebinära kön. In: Edward Summanen; Matilda Wurm, Trans: Fakta, forskning och erfarenheter (pp. 138-150). Stockholm: Natur och kultur. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. & Lundberg, T. (2023). Minoritetsstress och hälsa. In: Edward Summanen; Matilda Wurm, Trans: Fakta, forskning och erfarenheter (pp. 36-57). Stockholm: Natur och kultur. [BibTeX]
Furmark, T. , van Zalk, N. & Wurm, M. (2021). Social ångest som begrepp, diagnos och kulturyttring. In: Ewa Mörtberg; Maria Tillfors, Social ångest från teori till behandling (pp. 25-52). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. & Hanner, H. (2017). Att möta samhället som hbtq+. In: Lundberg, Tove; Malmquist, Anna; Wurm, Matilda, HBTQ+: Psykologiska perspektiv och bemötande (pp. 153-168). Stockholm: Natur och kultur. [BibTeX]
Anna, M. & Wurm, M. (2017). Föräldraskap. In: Lundberg, Tove; Malmquist, Anna; Wurm, Matilda, HBTQ+: Psykologiska perspektiv och bemötande (pp. 227-244). Stockholm: Natur och kultur. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. & Traczyk, M. (2017). Riktlinjer. In: Lundberg, Tove; Malmquist, Anna; Wurm, Matilda, HBTQ+: Psykologiska perspektiv och bemötande (pp. 333-338). Stockholm: Natur och kultur. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. (2017). Trans. In: Lundberg, Tove; Malmquist, Anna; Wurm, Matilda, HBTQ+: Psykologiska perspektiv och bemötande (pp. 137-152). Stockholm: Natur och kultur. [BibTeX]

Collections (editor)

Summanen, E. (ed.) & Wurm, M. (ed.) (2023). Trans: Fakta, forskning och erfarenheter. Stockholm: Natur och kultur. [BibTeX]
Lundberg, T. (ed.) , Malmquist, A. (ed.) & Wurm, M. (ed.) (2017). HBTQ+: psykologiska perspektiv och bemötande (1ed.). Stockholm: Natur och kultur. [BibTeX]

Conference papers

Norell, A. , Hogstrom, J. , Tillfors, M. , Lindstahl, M. & Wurm, M. (2024). An exploratory study of insomnia and stress in transgender and gender diverse youth, cisgender girls, and cisgender boys. In: Journal of Sleep Research. Paper presented at 27th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society, Seville, Spain, September 24-27, 2024. John Wiley & Sons. [BibTeX]
Bratt, A. S. , Hirakawa, Y. , Muraya, T. , Petersson-Hjelm, A. & Wurm, M. (2023). Creating safe interactions for LGBTQ older adults in health-care settings. Paper presented at MIRAI 2.0 R&I Week 2023, Umeå, Sweden, November 13-17, 2023. [BibTeX]
Tyni, K. , Wurm, M. & Bratt, A. S. (2023). “I felt it inside”: Lived experience of gender creative children 4-12 years related to gender identity in Sweden. Paper presented at The 8th Nordic Trans Studies Conference 2023, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, February 23-25, 2023. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. , Mejias Nihlén, T. , Filis, P. , Lundberg, T. & Malmquist, A. (2023). Minority joy: Positive aspects experienced by trans* people. Paper presented at The 8th Nordic Trans Studies Conference 2023, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, February 23-25, 2023. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. , Mejias Nihlén, T. , Filis, P. , Lundberg, T. & Malmquist, A. (2023). Minority joy: The future of LGBTQ+ research?. Paper presented at Norsk Förening för Klinisk Sexologi (NACS)-konferens, Oslo, Norway, September 28 - October 1, 2023. [BibTeX]
Lundberg, T. , Malmquist, A. , Mejias Nihlén, T. & Wurm, M. (2023). Trans och välbefinnande: Hur kan vi skapa social resiliens för att motverka minoritetsstress?. Paper presented at Lund Sustainability week, Lund, Sweden, April 17-22, 2023. [BibTeX]
Muraya, T. , Wurm, M. , Pettersson Hjelm, A. , Hirakawa, Y. & Bratt, A. S. (2023). We treat everyone equal: Health care professionals do not speak about LGBTQ questions in neither Sweden or Japan. Paper presented at MIRAI 2.0 R&I Week 2023, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, November 13-17, 2023. [BibTeX]
Gato, J. , Barrientos, J. , Tasker, F. , Miscioscia, M. , Cerqueira-Santos, E. , Malmquist, A. , Seabra, D. , Leal, D. & et al. (2022). Psychosocial Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health Among LGBTQ plus Young Adults: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Across Six Nations. In: International Journal of Sexual Health. Paper presented at 25th Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS) and SASHA (South African Sexual Health Association), Cape Town, South Africa, September 9-12, 2021. (pp. 105-105). Taylor & Francis. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. , Flink, I. , Tillfors, M. & Boersma, K. (2017). External and internal social factors as risk factors for the development of back/neck pain in Swedish adolescents. Paper presented at 10th Congress of the European Pain Federation (EFIC 2017), Pain in Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 6-9, 2017. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. , Klein Strandberg, E. , Lorenz, C. , Buhrman, M. , Holländare, F. , Tillfors, M. & Boersma, K. (2016). Chronic pain and emotional problems: A replicated single case study of an internet based therapist guided treatment based on CBT principles and the Unified Protocol of transdiagnostic treatments. Paper presented at 8th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (WCBCT 2016), Melbourne, Australia, June 22-25, 2016. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. & Boersma, K. (2016). Det senaste inom psykoterapi och smärta: Aktuellt från CHAMP: Unified Protocol online och Compassion Focused Therapy för smärtpatienter. Paper presented at Svenskt Smärtforum 2016, Jönköping, Sweden, October 20-21, 2016. [BibTeX]
Klein Strandberg, E. & Wurm, M. (2016). When standard pain rehabilitation is not enough: A transdiagnostic internet-delivered guided CBT intervention as a secondary intervention for individuals with chronic pain and co-morbid emotional problems. Paper presented at The 8th Swedish Congress on Internet Interventions (SWEsrii 2016), Örebro, Sweden, November 11, 2016. [BibTeX]
Anniko, M. , Wurm, M. & Boersma, K. (2014). Stressing Emotions: Emotion Focused Transdiagnostic Treatment for Work Stress. Paper presented at 44th annual conference of the European Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT 2014), The Hague, The Netherlands, September 10-13, 2014. [BibTeX]
Wurm, M. , Edlund, S. , Boersma, K. & Tillfors, M. (2013). Comorbid social anxiety and pain: Relationship with transdiagnostic psychological processes. Paper presented at 8th congress of the European Pain Federation (EFIC 2013), 20 years of building bridges, Florence, Italy, October 9-12, 2013. [BibTeX]

Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries

Wurm, M. (2018). Understanding Comorbid Pain and Emotions: A transdiagnostic approach. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University. [BibTeX]

Manuscripts

Wurm, M. , Flink, I. , Anniko, M. , Tillfors, M. & Boersma, K. Musculoskeletal pain in adolescents : Prevalence, and the role of peer-related stress, worry, and gender in the development of pain problems over time. [BibTeX]