Hovudvekta av forskinga mi har vore innanfor traumefeltet og kvalitativ psykoterapiforsking, og eg er medforskar på fleire prosjekt innan desse områda. Eg er også oppteken av helsetenesteforsking, inkludert terapeutperspektivet på behandling og klinisk beslutningstaking.

I tillegg er eg svært oppteken av klinisk opplæring, og leiar undergruppa "klinisk opplæring", som ligg under forskingsgruppa Bergen Psychotherapy Change Lab. Vi er fleire kollegaer ved IKP som over fleire år har lagt grunnlaget for å kunne gjere forsking på den kliniske opplæringa vi tilbyr på universitetet. Tradisjonelt universiteta sikra at studentane har lært det dei skal gjennom vurderingar innan kvart emne i utdanninga, samt godkjente praksisperiodar. Det er derimot, både nasjonalt og internasjonalt, svært lite systematisering av erfaring med den kliniske opplæringa, og ein har i lita grad undersøkt om studentane får styrka sentrale ferdigheiter gjennom utdanninga. Sjølv om gruppa har jobba med å legge grunnlaget for slik forsking over fleire år, er gruppa og forskingsporteføljen framleis under utvikling og oppbygging. Gruppa har likevel fleire konkrete område der vi jobbar systematisk: Område 1: Formulering av kva kompetanse som er naudsynt for å ha som klinisk psykolog; Område 2: Måling av relevante kliniske ferdigheter; Område 3: Undersøking av kva situasjonar norske klinikar opplever som særleg krevjande; Område 4: Etablering av videobibliotek med relevante, kliniske situasjonar i ein norsk kontekst; Område 5: VR vs skjerm – gjer VR ein forskjell?; Område 6: Målretta trening (Deliberate Practice) som pedagogisk modell for tileigning av klinisk kompetanse; Område 7: Korleis fasilitere utvikling av studentane sin terapeutresponsivitet?; og Område 8: Videokoding av terapi som moglegheit til modellæring. For meir info, sjå nettsida til forskingsgruppa (Bergen Psychotherapy Change Lab | University of Bergen (uib.no).

Eg er også oppteken av å utvikle tenking kring korleis vi brukar oss sjølve som instrument innan kvalitativ forsking, og kva implikasjonar dette har for opplæring. Eg har til dømes leia eit prosjekt på rolle til empati i kvalitativ analyse, og har initiert eit prosjekt som er i startfasen på ekspertise i kvalitativ analyse.

Interesseområder:

Klinisk opplæring

Psykoterapiforsking

Kvalitative metoder

Komplekse traumer

Helsetjenesteforsking

Eg er svært oppteken av behandling av vanskar etter kompleks traumatisering, samt korleis ein kan utvikle og trene sentrale terapeutiske ferdigheter og relasjonell kompetanse. Undevisninga mi er i hovudvekt knytt til terapeutopplæring, kommunikasjonskompetanse og behandling av kompleks traumatisering. I tillegg underviser eg i kvalitativ metode.

Vitenskapelig artikkel

• Øystein Ottesen Nødtvedt; Per-Einar Binder; Signe Hjelen Stige et al. (2019). “You Feel They Have a Heart and Are Not Afraid to Show It”: Exploring How Clients Experience the Therapeutic Relationship in Emotion-Focused Therapy. (ekstern lenke)
• Marius Veseth; Per-Einar Binder; Signe Hjelen Stige (2017). 'If there's no stability around them': Experienced therapists' view on the role of patients' social world in recovery in bipolar disorder. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige (2011). A Stabilization Group Approach for Heterogeneous Populations of Trauma Clients. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Jorunn Halvorsen; Ellen Tvedt Solberg (2019). Pathways to Understanding – How Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Came to Understand that they had been Sexually Abused. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Per-Einar Binder (2016). From painstaking work to a new way of meeting the world—Trauma clients’ experiences with skill training in a stabilization group approach.. (ekstern lenke)
• Anders Christian Geertsen; Signe Hjelen Stige (2022). Norwegian Firefighters’ Experiences of Rescue Work at Severe Traffic Accidents- A Qualitative Study. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Bente Træen; Jan H Rosenvinge (2013). The Process Leading to Help Seeking Following Childhood Trauma. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Marion Hernes Torrissen; Yngvild Sørebø Danielsen et al. (2024). Training students to become responsive therapists: implications from a sequential mixed-methods study on situations that therapists find challenging. (ekstern lenke)
• Marius Veseth; Signe Hjelen Stige; Per-Einar Binder (2018). Medicine and meaning - How experienced therapists describe the role of medication in recovery processes in bipolar disorder. (ekstern lenke)
• Jorunn Halvorsen; Ellen Tvedt Solberg; Signe Hjelen Stige (2020). “To say it out loud is to kill your own childhood.” – An exploration of the first person perspective of barriers to disclosing child sexual abuse. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Per-Einar Binder; Jan Reidar Stiegler et al. (2021). Clients’ Perspective on Predetermined Time Limits for Therapy in the Context of the Norwegian Welfare System. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Hanne Weie Oddli; Aslak Hjeltnes et al. (2024). The researcher as instrument - how our capacity for empathy supports qualitative analysis of transcripts. (ekstern lenke)
• Hege Hansen; Signe Hjelen Stige; Christian Moltu et al. (2019). “We all have a responsibility”: a narrative discourse analysis of an information campaign targeting help-seeking in first episode psychosis. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Per-Einar Binder; Marius Veseth (2017). The role of therapy in personal recovery - Trauma clients' use of resources to continue positive processes following group therapy. (ekstern lenke)
• Ingrid Dundas; Elin Mæhle; Signe Hjelen Stige (2021). Finding One's Footing When Everyone Has an Opinion. Negotiating an Acceptable Identity After Sexual Assault. (ekstern lenke)
• Jan Reidar Stiegler; Aslak Hjeltnes; Signe Hjelen Stige et al. (2018). “It’s heavy, intense, horrendous and nice”: Clients’ experiences of processing emotions in a two-chair dialogue.. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Marius Veseth; Per-Einar Binder (2018). Trauma Clients’ Continuing Work on Relationships with Their Self and Others after Trauma-Specific Group Therapy. (ekstern lenke)
• Per-Einar Binder; Ingrid Dundas; Signe Hjelen Stige et al. (2019). Becoming Aware of Inner Self-Critique and Kinder Toward Self: A Qualitative Study of Experiences of Outcome After a Brief Self-Compassion Intervention for University Level Students. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Vibeke Mathisen Grøtte; Kjersti Utstøl (2015). Individualbehandleres erfaringer med traumespesifikk gruppebehandling på et mindre DPS. (ekstern lenke)
• Mali Strand; Signe Hjelen Stige (2021). Combining mindfulness and compassion in the treatment of complex trauma – a theoretical exploration.. (ekstern lenke)
• Margrethe S. Halvorsen; Signe Hjelen Stige; Jorunn Halvorsen et al. (2024). Detecting child sexual abuse in child and adolescent psychiatry: a survey study of healthcare professionals’ assessment practice. (ekstern lenke)
• Ane Wilhelmsen-Langeland; Hanna Aardal; V Hjelmseth et al. (2019). An Emotion Focused Family Therapy workshop for parents with children 6-12 years increased parental self-efficacy. (ekstern lenke)
• Hege Hansen; Signe Hjelen Stige; Larry Davidson et al. (2019). "Needing different things from different people" - a qualitative exploration of recovery in firstepisode psychosis.. (ekstern lenke)
• Tonje Barca; Christian Moltu; Marius Veseth et al. (2020). The nature of youth in the eyes of mental-health care workers: Therapists' conceptualization of adolescents coming to therapy at others' initiative. (ekstern lenke)
• Katinka Thorne Salvesen; Signe Hjelen Stige; Malin Wästlund et al. (2023). Change despite obstacles: A mixed-methods pilot study of a trauma-sensitive mindfulness and compassion intervention. (ekstern lenke)
• Elisabeth Schanche; Aslak Hjeltnes; Geir Høstmark Nielsen et al. (2019). “Nothing is just smooth or perfect”: What can students learn from intensively reviewing psychotherapy conducted by experienced therapists whilst being focused on emotional processes?. (ekstern lenke)
• Hege Almeland Hansen; Signe Hjelen Stige; Larry Davidson et al. (2023). How do young adults experience and understand the process of developing a first episode of psychosis? A qualitative exploration. (ekstern lenke)
• Jorunn Beate Helle; Jon Vøllestad; Elisabeth Schanche et al. (2022). From seeing difficult behaviour to recognizing legitimate needs–A qualitative study of mothers' experiences of participating in a Circle of Security Parenting program in a public mental health setting. (ekstern lenke)
• Emilie Sektnan Nordby; Sigrid Gilje; Daniel Andre Jensen et al. (2021). Goal management training for adults with ADHD – clients’ experiences with a group-based intervention. (ekstern lenke)
• Marie Munch; Signe Hjelen Stige; Steinunn Adolfsdottir et al. (2025). “They are just as different as the rest of us”–a focus group study of primary teachers’ perceptions of children with ADHD who struggle socially. (ekstern lenke)
• Marthe Johanne Grue; Marie Bytingsvik; Signe Hjelen Stige (2019). «Ingen vet hvem du er» – flyktningers opplevelse av omstillingsprosessen i Norge. (ekstern lenke)
• Sathya Jeganathan; Ingrid Kvestad; Santhini Rajendran et al. (2025). Continuation of Kangaroo Mother Care when transitioning from facility to community: maternal and familial perspectives from South India. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Gro Sydnes Fjellheim; Irene Bircow Elgen et al. (2023). Krevjande situasjonar i psykisk helsevern for born og unge – behandlarar si erfaring med og haldning til målretta trening og virtuell røyndom. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Stige; Anders Martin Fjell; Lars Smith et al. (2007). The Development of Visual P3a and P3b. (ekstern lenke)
• Ellen Tvedt Solberg; Jorunn E. Halvorsen; Signe Hjelen Stige (2021). What do survivors of child sexual abuse believe will facilitate early disclosure of sexual abuse?. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Ingrid Dundas; Elisabeth Schanche et al. (2019). Kva typar mellommenneskelege situasjonar opplever norske psykologar o�ftast og som mest krevjande?. (ekstern lenke)
• Hilde Wiberg Bøyum; Signe Hjelen Stige (2017). "Jeg forstår henne bedre nå" : en kvalitativ studie av foreldres opplevelse av relasjonen til egne barn etter emosjonsfokusert foreldreveiledning. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Jan H Rosenvinge; Bente Træen (2013). A meaningful struggle: Trauma clients' experiences with an inclusive stabilization group approach. (ekstern lenke)
• Nadia Ansar; Aslak Hjeltnes; Signe Hjelen Stige et al. (2021). Parenthood—Lost and Found: Exploring Parents’ Experiences of Receiving a Program in Emotion Focused Skills Training. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Nora Sveaass (2010). Living in exile when disaster strikes at home. (ekstern lenke)
• Yngvild Sørebø Danielsen; Vivian Irena Woodfin; Signe Hjelen Stige (2025). Experiential Trajectories of Weight Gain: A Qualitative Study of People With Larger Bodies’ Understanding of Their Weight Changes Throughout Life in Norway. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Endre Visted; Elisabeth Schanche et al. (2026). Mapping core competencies for clinical psychologists: A qualitative meta-analysis of nine international standards and accreditation documents.. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Endre Visted (2026). Virtual reality as a tool to enhance clinical psychology students' self-knowledge and self-awareness—a proof-of-concept study. (ekstern lenke)
• Nadia Ansar; Signe Hjelen Stige; Selma Marie Pedersen Engeset et al. (2025). Reinventing fatherhood -exploring men' experiences of participating in emotion-focused skills training. (ekstern lenke)
• Per-Einar Binder; Elisabeth Schanche; Helge Holgersen et al. (2016). Why do we need qualitative research on psychological treatments? The case for discovery, reflexivity, critique, receptivity, and evocation. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Per-Einar Binder; Jan H Rosenvinge et al. (2013). Stories from the road of recovery - How adult, female survivors of childhood trauma experience ways to positive change. (ekstern lenke)
• Malin Wästlund; Katinka Thorne Salvesen; Signe Hjelen Stige (2023). Clients’ experiences with a Trauma-sensitive mindfulness and compassion group intervention: a first-person perspective on change and change mechanisms. (ekstern lenke)
• Ingrid Dundas; Aslak Hjeltnes; Elisabeth Schanche et al. (2020). Does it get easier over time? Psychologists’ experiences of working with suicidal patients. (ekstern lenke)
• Ingrid Dundas; Kari Kristine Ravnanger; Per-Einar Binder et al. (2020). A Qualitative Study of Use of Mindfulness to Reduce Long-Term Use of Habit-Forming Prescription Drugs. (ekstern lenke)
• Ingrid Dundas; Per-Einar Binder; Tia G.B. Hansen et al. (2017). Does a short self-compassion intervention for students increase healthy self-regulation? A randomized control trial. (ekstern lenke)
• Anita Fjærestad; Signe Hjelen Stige; Atle Dyregrov et al. (2025). Terror-bereaved parents experiences of professional help and support: A qualitative analysis. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Tonje Barca; Kristina O. Lavik et al. (2021). Barriers and Facilitators in Adolescent Psychotherapy Initiated by Adults – Experiences That Differentiate Adolescents’ Trajectories Through Mental Health Care. (ekstern lenke)
• Anita Fjærestad; Pål Kristensen; Atle Dyregrov et al. (2022). Grief trajectories among bereaved parents after the 2011 Utøya terror attack: A qualitative analysis. (ekstern lenke)
• Oda Ulven; Signe Hjelen Stige; Yngvild Sørebø Danielsen (2025). Premature termination of eating disorder treatment - a qualitative study of therapist perspectives. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Ingrid Eik; Hanne Berit Weie Oddli et al. (2021). Negotiating System Requirements to Secure Client Engagement – Therapist Strategies in Adolescent Psychotherapy Initiated by Others. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Margrethe S. Halvorsen (2016). From cumulative strain to available resources: A case study of the potential effects of new trauma on recovery. (ekstern lenke)

Konferanseposter

• Yngvild Sørebø Danielsen; Charlotte Lindseth; Sara Skiple Sataøen et al. (2022). Therapist responsiveness to ambivalence in eating disorder (ED) treatment- A qualitative study of therapist perspectives. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Elisabeth Schanche; Ingrid Dundas et al. (2022). Therapist responsiveness in challenging situations – Results from two surveys on what situations therapists find most challenging. (ekstern lenke)
• Hege Hansen; Signe Hjelen Stige; Christian Moltu et al. (2016). Experiences of meeting early intervention services for psychosis. Results from a narrative meta-synthesis providing a systematic integration of 17 qualitative studies on service user experiences. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige (2011). The help-seeking process among women with trauma-related symptoms. Preliminary results from a qualitative research project. (ekstern lenke)
• Hege Hansen; Signe Hjelen Stige; Christian Moltu et al. (2016). Experiences of meeting early intervention services for psychosis. Results from a narrative meta-synthesis of 17 qualitative studies on service user experiences. (ekstern lenke)

Konferanseforedrag

• Signe Hjelen Stige; Marion Hernes Torrissen; Yngvild Sørebø Danielsen et al. (2024). Å lære studentar å bli responsive terapeutar: Implikasjonar frå ein sekvensiell mixed-methods studie om situasjonar som terapeutar finn særleg krevjande. (ekstern lenke)
• Yngvild Sørebø Danielsen; Signe Hjelen Stige; Guro Årdal Rekkedal et al. (2024). Traumatic experiences and the effectiveness of eating disorder treatment. (ekstern lenke)
• Endre Visted; Signe Hjelen Stige (2024). Using Virtual Reality to Foster Self-Knowledge in Students. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige (2023). Including therapists in public mental health care as co-researchers in psychotherapy research – A potential pathway to bridge the practitioner-researcher divide?. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Hanne Berit Weie Oddli; Aslak Hjeltnes et al. (2024). Researcher empathy as a facilitator and potential resource for qualitative data analyses . (ekstern lenke)

Leserbrev

• Signe Hjelen Stige (2011). Mediedekninga - eit hinder for hjelp?. (ekstern lenke)
• Endre Visted; Reidar Jakobsen; Signe Hjelen Stige (2025). Viktig kompetanse kan gå tapt ved Universitetet i Bergen. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige (2024). The facilitative interpersonal skills performance task—A potential resource for identifying skilled psychotherapists.. (ekstern lenke)
• Andreas Teisner Høstmælingen; Harald Bækkelund; Marit Coldevin et al. (2025). Hvem er psykologene til for?. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig bokkapittel

• Signe Hjelen Stige; Hanne Berit Weie Oddli (2024). Vitskapsteori – kva er det, og kvifor er det viktig når vi gjer forsking?. (ekstern lenke)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Aslak Hjeltnes; Hanne Berit Weie Oddli et al. (2024). Empati i kvalitativ analyse. (ekstern lenke)

Forelesning

• Signe Hjelen Stige; Claire Ghetti (2022). Keynote: Konsonanser og dissonanser over Dagens Grunntone: Forskning. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig litteraturgjennomgang

• Signe Hjelen Stige; Ann Christin Andersen; Jorunn Halvorsen et al. (2022). Possible paths to increase detection of child sexual abuse in child and adolescent psychiatry: a meta-synthesis of survivors’ and health professionals’ experiences of addressing child sexual abuse. (ekstern lenke)
• Hege Hansen; Signe Hjelen Stige; Larry Davidson et al. (2017). How do people experience early intervention services for psychosis? A meta-synthesis. (ekstern lenke)

Populærvitenskapelig artikkel

• Signe Hjelen Stige; Vibeke Mathisen Grøtte; Kjersti Utstøl (2015). Fleksible terapeutar i faste strukturar. (ekstern lenke)
• Eivind Alexander Valestrand; Hilde Grimstad; Signe Hjelen Stige et al. (2025). Klinisk usikkerhet er ikke bare et onde. (ekstern lenke)

Fagartikkel

• Signe Hjelen Stige (2009). Brubygging og vegen mot eit kultursensitivt helsevesen. (ekstern lenke)

Doktorgradsavhandling

• Signe Hjelen Stige; Jan H. Rosenvinge (2013). Stabilization groups for heterogeneous samples of trauma clients : presentation of a new treatment approach, and a hermeneutical-phenomenological analysis of help seeking, treatment participation, and ways to positive change.. (ekstern lenke)

Se en full oversikt over publikasjoner i Cristin

Stige, S. H., & Visted, E. (2026). Virtual reality as a tool to enhance clinical psychology students' self-knowledge and self-awareness—a proof-of-concept study. Frontiers in Psychology, Volume 16 - 2025. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1659873

Valestrand, E. A., Grimstad, H., Stige, S. H., & Hofmann, B. M. (2025). Klinisk usikkerhet er ikke bare et onde. Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke, 145(10), 10.4045/tidsskr.25.0270. https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.25.0270

Jeganathan, S., Kvestad, I., Rajendran, S., & Stige, S. H. (2025). Continuation of Kangaroo Mother Care when transitioning from facility to community: maternal and familial perspectives from South India. BMC Health Services Research, 25(1), 1444. doi:10.1186/s12913-025-13615-7

Fjærestad, A., Stige, S. H., Dyregrov, A., & Kristensen, P. (2025). Terror-bereaved parents experiences of professional help and support: a qualitative analysis. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2025.2529743

Ansar, N., Stige, S. H., Pedersen Engeset, S. M., Nilsen, B., Schanche, E., & Hjeltnes, A. (2025). Reinventing fatherhood -exploring men’ experiences of participating in emotion-focused skills training. Psychotherapy Research, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2025.2494747

Stige, S. H., Greve, M. M., & Trefall, K. A. (2025). Wanting to provide the childhood they never got – a meta-synthesis of how survivors of childhood abuse experience becoming a parent. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2025.2523175

Danielsen, Y. S., Woodfin, V., & Stige, S. H. (2025). Experiential Trajectories of Weight Gain: A Qualitative Study of People With Larger Bodies’ Understanding of Their Weight Changes Throughout Life in Norway. Qualitative Health Research, 10497323251342217. doi:10.1177/10497323251342217

Ulven, O., Stige, S. H., & Danielsen, Y. S. (2025). Premature termination of eating disorder treatment - a qualitative study of therapist perspectives. Journal of Eating Disorders, 13(1), 76. doi:10.1186/s40337-025-01268-0

Munch, M., Stige, S. H., Adólfsdóttir, S., Sørensen, L., & Osnes, B. (2025). “They are just as different as the rest of us” – a focus group study of primary teachers’ perceptions of children with ADHD who struggle socially. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2025.2465215

Stige, S. H. & Oddli, H. B. W. (2024). Vitskapsteori – kva er det, og kvifor er det viktig når vi gjer forsking? I Lorås, L. & Ness, O. (red). Håndbok i kvalitativ forskning for helse- og sosialfag, s. 31-44. Fagbokforlaget

Stige, S. H., Hjeltnes, A., Oddli, H. B. W., Watson, J., & Stige, B. (2024). Empati i kvalitativ analyse. I Lorås, L. & Ness, O. (red). Håndbok i kvalitativ forskning for helse- og sosialfag, s. 121-134. Fagbokforlaget

Stige, S. H., Oddli, H. W., Hjeltnes, A., Watson, J., & Stige, B. (2024). The researcher as instrument - how our capacity for empathy supports qualitative analysis of transcripts. Qualitative Research in Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2024.2368046

Stige, S. H. (2024). The facilitative interpersonal skills performance task—A potential resource for identifying skilled psychotherapists.Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 31(2), 227–229. https://doi.org/10.1037/cps0000206

Stige, S.H., Torrissen, M.H., Danielsen, Y.S., Jakobsen, R., Morken, K. T. E., & Dundas, I. (2024). Training students to become responsive therapists: implications from a sequential mixed-methods study on situations that therapists find challenging. BMC Medical Education 24, 261. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-05236-1

Halvorsen, M. S., Stige, S. H., Halvorsen, J. E., Binder, P. E., Måkestad, E., Albaek, A. U., & Andersen, A. C. (2024). Detecting child sexual abuse in child and adolescent psychiatry: a survey study of healthcare professionals' assessment practice. International journal of mental health systems, 18(1), 16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-024-00632-y

Salvesen, K. T., Stige, S. H., Wästlund, M., & Vrabel, K. (2023). Change despite obstacles: A mixed-methods pilot study of a trauma-sensitive mindfulness and compassion intervention. European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 7(4), 100361. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2023.100361

Hansen, Hege Almeland; Stige, Signe Hjelen; Davidson, Larry; Løberg, Else-Marie; Veseth, Marius. (2023). How do young adults experience and understand the process of developing a first episode of psychosis? A qualitative exploration. Psychosis

Wästlund, M., Salvesen, K., & Stige, S. H. (2023). Clients’ experiences with a Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness and Compassion Group Intervention – A first person perspective on change and change mechanisms. Psychotherapy Research

Stige, S. H., Fjellheim, G., Elgen, I., & Visted, E. (2023). Krevjande situasjonar i psykisk helsevern for born og unge - Behandlarar si erfaring med og haldning til målretta trening og virtuell røyndom. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening.

Helle, J., Vøllestad, J., Schanche, E., & Stige, S. H. (2023). From seeing difficult behaviour to recognizing legitimate needs - A qualitative study of mothers' experiences of participating in a Circle of Security Parenting program in a public mental health setting. Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, 33(4), 482–493. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2022.2132888

Fjærestad, A., Kristensen, P., Dyregrov, A., & Stige, S. H. (2022). Grief trajectories among bereaved parents after the 2011 Utøya terror attack: A qualitative analysis. Death Studies, DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2022.2135045

Geertsen, A. C., & Stige, S. H. (2022). Norwegian Firefighters' Experiences of Rescue Work at Severe Traffic Accidents - A Qualitative Study. International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience, 24(7), p 91-101.

Stige, S. H., Andersen, A. C., Halvorsen, M. S., Måkestad, E., Halvorsen, J. E., Binder, P.-E., & Albæk, A. U. (2022). Possible paths to increase detection of child sexual abuse in child and adolescent psychiatry: a meta-synthesis of survivors’ and health professionals’ experiences of addressing child sexual abuse. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 17(1), DOI: 10.1080/17482631.2022.2103934

Stige, S. H., Eik, I., Oddli, H. W., & Moltu, C. (2021). Negotiating system requirements to secure client engagement – Therapist strategies in adolescent psychotherapy initiated by others. Frontiers in Psychology, section Psychology for Clinical Settings

Dundas, I., Mæhle, E., & Stige, S. H. (2021). Finding One's Footing When Everyone Has an Opinion. Negotiating an Acceptable Identity After Sexual Assault. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 649530. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.649530

Solberg, E. T., Halvorsen, J. E., & Stige, S. H. (2021). What Do Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Believe Will Facilitate Early Disclosure of Sexual Abuse?. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 639341. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.639341

Ansar, N., Hjeltnes, A., Stige, S. H., Binder, P. E., & Stiegler, J. R. (2021). Parenthood-Lost and Found: Exploring Parents' Experiences of Receiving a Program in Emotion Focused Skills Training. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 559188. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.559188

Stige, S. H., Binder, P.-E., Stiegler, J. R., Schanche, E., Hummelslund, D. A., & Hjeltnes, A. (2021). Clients’ Perspective on Predetermined Time Limits for Therapy in the Context of the Norwegian Welfare System. SAGE Open. https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211009506

Strand, M., & Stige, S. H. (2021). Combining mindfulness and compassion in the treatment of complex trauma – a theoretical exploration. European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 5(3), 100217. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2021.100217

Nordby, E. S., Gilje, S., Jensen, D. A., Sørensen, L., & Stige, S. H. (2021). Goal management training for adults with ADHD – clients’ experiences with a group-based intervention. BMC psychiatry, 21(1), 113. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03114-4

Stige, S. H., Barca, T., B., Lavik, K. O., & Moltu, C. (2021). Barriers and Facilitators in Adolescent Psychotherapy Initiated by Adults – Experiences That Differentiate Adolescents’ Trajectories Through Mental Health Care. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 633663. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633663

Dundas, I., Ravnanger, K., Binder, P.-E., & Stige, S. H. (2020). A Qualitative Study of Use of Mindfulness to Reduce Long-Term Use of Habit-Forming Prescription Drugs. Frontiers, doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.493349

Barca, T. B., Moltu, C., Veseth, M., Fjellheim, G., & Stige, S. H. (2020). The nature of youth in the eyes of mental-health care workers: therapists’ conceptualization of adolescents coming to therapy at others’ initiative. International Journal of Mental Health Systems 14(1), doi: 10.1186/s13033-020-00363-w 

Halvorsen, J. E., Soltveit, E. T., & Stige, S. H. (2020). “To say it out loud is to kill your own childhood.” – An exploration of the first person perspective of barriers to disclosing child sexual abuse. Children and Youth Services Review, 113:104999, doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104999

Dundas, I., Hjeltnes, A., Schanche, E., & Stige, S. H. (2020). Does it get easier over time? Psychologists’ experiences of working with suicidal patients. Death Studies. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2020.1740831

Binder, P.-E., Dundas, I., Stige, S. H., Hjeltnes, A., Woodfin, V., & Moltu, C. (2019). Becoming Aware of Inner Self-Critique and Kinder Toward Self: A Qualitative Study of Experiences of Outcome After a Brief Self-Compassion Intervention for University Level Students. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(2728). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02728

Hansen, H., Stige, S. H., Davidson, L., Løberg, E.-M., & Veseth, M. (2019). "Needing different things from different people" -a qualitative exploration of recovery in first episode psychosis. Social Work in Mental Health, 18(5). doi: 10.1080/15332985.2019.1679324

Grue, M., Bytingsvik, M., & Stige, S. H. (2019). «Ingen vet hvem du er» – flyktningers opplevelse av omstillingsprosessen i Norge. Tidsskrift for psykisk helsearbeid, 16(3). doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3010-2019-03-03

Nødtvedt, Ø. O., Binder, P.-E., Stige, S. H., Schanche, E., Stiegler, R., & Hjeltnes, A. (2019). “You Feel They Have a Heart and Are Not Afraid to Show It”: Exploring How Clients Experience the Therapeutic Relationship in Emotion-Focused Therapy. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01996

Wilhelmsen-Langeland, A., Aardal, H., Hjelmseth, V., Fyhn, K. L., & Stige, S. H. (2019). An Emotion Focused Family Therapy workshop for parents with children 6-12 years increased parental self-efficacy. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 25(1). doi: 10.1080/13632752.2019.1655921

Stige, S. H., Dundas, I., Schanche, E., & Hjeltnes, A. (2019). Kva typar mellommenneskelige situasjonar opplever norske psykologar oftast og som mest krevjande? Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 56(8).

Stige, S. H., Halvorsen, J. E., & Soltvedt, E. T. (2019). Pathways to Understanding – How Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Came to Understand that they had been Sexually Abused. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 29(11). doi: 10.1080/10538712.2019.1643432

Hansen, H., Stige, S. H., Moltu, C., Johannesen, J. O., Joa, I., Dybvig, S., & Veseth, M. (2019). "We all have a responsibility": a narrative discourse analysis of an information campaign targeting help-seeking in first episode psychosis. Internation Journal of Mental Health Systems, 13(32). doi: 10.1186/s13033-019-0289-4

Schanche, E., Hjeltnes, A., Nielsen, G., Stige, S. H., & Stiegler, J. R. (2019). “Nothing is just smooth or perfect”: What can students learn from intensively reviewing psychotherapy conducted by experienced therapists whilst being focused on emotional processes? Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 19(3). doi: 10.1002/capr.12211

Stige, S. H., Veseth, M., & Binder, P.-E. (2018). Trauma client's continuing work on relationships with their self and others after trauma-specific group therapy. Self & Society. An International Journal for Humanistic Psychology.

Veseth, M., Stige, S. H., & Binder, P.-E. (2018). Medicine and meaning - How experienced therapists describe the role of medication in recovery processes in bipolar disorder. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 19(2). doi: 10.1002/capr.12193

Stiegler, J. R., Hjeltnes, A., Stige, S. H., Schanche, E., & Binder, P. E. (2018). “It’s heavy, intense, horrendous and nice”: Clients’ experiences of processing emotions in a two-chair dialogue. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies, 1-21. doi:10.1080/14779757.2018.1472138

Hansen, H., Stige, S. H., Moltu, C., Davidson, L., & Veseth, M. (2017). How Do People Experience Early Intervention Services for Psychosis? - A meta-synthesis. Qualitative Health Research, 28(2), 259-272. doi:10.1177/1049732317735080

Stige, S. H., Binder, P. E., & Veseth, M. (2017). The role of therapy in personal recovery - Trauma clients' use of resources to continue positive processes following group therapy. Qualitative Social Work, doi: 10.1177/1473325017699264

Dundas, I., Binder, P. E., Hansen, T. G. B., & Stige, S. H. (2017). Does a Short Self-Compassion Intervention for Students Increase Healthy Self- Regulation? A Randomized Control Trial. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 58(5), 443-450. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12385

Bøyum, H., & Stige, S. H. (2017). «Jeg forstår henne bedre nå» – En kvalitativ studie av Foreldres opplevelse av relasjonen til egne barn etter emosjonsfokusert foreldreveiledning. Scandinvian Psychologist, 4, e11. https://doi.org/10.15714/scandpsychol.4.e11

Veseth, M., Binder, P. E., & Stige, S. H. (2017). “If there’s no stability around them”: experienced therapists’ view on the role of patients’ social world in recovery in bipolar disorder. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 11(55). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-017-0166-y

Stige, S. H., & Binder, P. E. (2016). From painstaking work to a new way of meeting the world—Trauma clients’ experiences with skill training in a stabilization group approach. Psychotherapy Research, 1-12. doi:10.1080/10503307.2016.1138335

Binder, P. E., Schanche, E., Holgersen, H., Nielsen, G. H., Hjeltnes, A., Stige, S. H., Veseth, M., & Moltu, C. (2016). Why do we need qualitative research on psychological treatments? The case for discovery, reflexivity, critique, receptivity, and evocation. Scandinavian Psychologist, 3, e8. http://dx.doi.org/10.15714/scandpsychol.3.e8

Stige, S. H., & Halvorsen, M. S. (2016). From cumulative strain to available resources: A narrative case study of the potential effects of new trauma exposure on recovery. Illness, Crisis & Loss, 26(4), 270-292. doi: 10.1177/1054137316664177

Stige, S. H., Grøtte, V. M., & Utstøl, K. (2015a). Individualbehandleres erfaringer med traumespesifikk gruppebehandling på et mindre DPS. Tidsskrift for Psykisk Helsearbeid, 12(3), 229-238.

Stige, S. H., Grøtte, V. M., & Utstøl, K. (2015b). Fleksible terapeutar i faste strukturar. Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening.

Stige, S. H., Træen, B., & Rosenvinge, J. H. (2013). The Process Leading to Help Seeking Following Childhood Trauma. Qualitative Health Research, 23(10), 1295-1306. doi:10.1177/1049732313503907

Stige, S. H., Rosenvinge, J. H., & Træen, B. (2013). A meaningful struggle: Trauma clients' experiences with an inclusive stabilization group approach. Psychotherapy Research, 23(4), 419-429. doi:10.1080/10503307.2013.778437

Stige, S. H., Binder, P. E., Rosenvinge, J. H., & Træen, B. (2013). Stories from the road of recovery – How adult, female survivors of childhood trauma experience ways to positive change. Nordic Psychology, 65(1), 3-18. doi:10.1080/19012276.2013.796083

Stige, S. H. (2011). A Stabilization Group Approach for Heterogeneous Populations of Trauma Clients. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 20(8), 886-903. doi: 10.1080/10926771.2011.627583

Stige, S. H., & Sveaass, N. (2010). Living in exile when disaster strikes at home. Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture, 20(2), 76-92.

Stige, S. H. (2009). Brubygging og vegen mot eit kultursensitivt helsevesen. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 46(4), 362-365.

Stige, S., Fjell, A., Smith, L., Lindgren, M., & Walhovd, K. B. (2007). The Development of Visual P3a and P3b. Developmental Neuropsychology, 32(1), 563-584.