Department of Adult Psychiatry (PHA-VOP)
The Adult Psychiatry Unit (APU) has the main responsibility for teaching and research within adult psychiatry, and is the largest unit under the Division of Mental Health and Addiction.
APU covers teaching across the entire breadth of the adult psychiatry field, including mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, personality psychiatry, eating disorders, psychosomatic medicine and trauma-related mental health conditions.
APU also provides teaching in the areas of psychotherapeutic methods, psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry, along with education related to transcultural psychiatry, global mental helath and forensic psychiatry. In collaboration with the clinic’s research centers, the unit also contributes to teaching about psychotic disorders, suicide issues and substance use disorders.
Through combined positions, APU collaborates with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction at Oslo University Hospital on clinical research. The unit also has positions linked to Diakonhjemmet Hospital and the National Competence Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS).
Research groups
Employees in APU are leaders of active research groups in the following areas of reasearch:
- Acute Psychiatry (OUH)
- Early psychosis
- Personality psychiatry
- Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Eating disorders
- Traumatic stress, forced migration and global mental health
In co-operation with the Centre for Presiscion Psychiatry (former CoE NORMENT), researchers in APU also lead research groups in the following research areas:
Collaboration
The research is done in collaboration with several national and international reputable universities and partners. For more information, please view the information in each research group.
