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Malin Broberg

Professor

Department of
Psychology
Telephone
+46 31-786 42 93
Mail
malin.broberg@psy.gu.se
Visiting address
Konstepidemins väg 2a
41314 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 700
40530 Göteborg

Dean

Faculty of Social
Sciences
Telephone
+46 31-786 42 93
Mail
malin.broberg@psy.gu.se
Visiting address
Konstepidemins väg 2a
41314 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 700
40530 Göteborg

Dean

Faculty Board of Social
Sciences
Telephone
+46 31-786 42 93
Mail
malin.broberg@psy.gu.se
Visiting address
Konstepidemins väg 2A
41314 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 700
40530 Göteborg

About Malin Broberg

Biography

Licensed clinical psychologist and an associate professor at the department. She got her degree from Umeå University in 1996.

Teaching

Malin has been teaching and coordinating courses among several of the educations given at the department, for the moment Malin has a post doc position financed by the Swedish Institute for Health Sciences and she is also working on a research grant from FAS. Malin is supervising two doctoral students, Petra Boström and Stina Järvholm

Research interests

My research focuses is on the psychological well-being of children with disabilities or chronic illnesses and their families. I am especially interested in the importance of risk and protective factors for the development of psychological health. I have a strong clinical interest and collaborate with habilitation centres and children’s hospitals. I’m chairing a nation wide group conducting a systematic literature review on evidence based parent-support. I also take part in interventions studies looking at effects of parental education intervention towards parents of children with communication delays and obesity. I have initiated a national network in paediatric psychology with the aim of creating long-term creative work integrating clinical practice and research, by finding ways to combine research and clinical work and initiating research in clinical settings.

Current research

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Selected publications

Bostrom, P., Broberg, M, & Hwang, C. P. (In press) Parental Representations of Young Children Recently Diagnosed with Intellectual Disability. Child; care, health and development

Boström, P., Broberg, M., & Hwang, C.P. (In press) Temperament of young children with or without ID – mothers’ and fathers’ perceptions. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Behrns, I., Hartelius, L.,Wengelin, Å. & Broberg, M. (2009). Aphasia and the Difference Between Written and Spoken Narratives. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

Olsson, M. B. (2009) Understanding individual differences in adaptation in parents of children with intellectual disabilities – a risk and resilience perspective. International Review of Research in Mental Retardation, vol 36, pp.281-315.

Olsson, M.B., & Hwang, C.P. (2008) Socioeconomic and psychological variables as risk and protective factors for parental well-being in families of children with ID. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 52(12), pp. 1102-1113.

Olsson, M. B., Larsman, P., Hwang, C. P. (2008) The relation between risk, sense of coherence and well-being in parents of children with and without intellectual disabilities. Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disability. Vol. 5(4), pp.227-236. Olsson, M.B., & Hwang, C.P. (2006) Well-being, involvement in paid work and division of child-care in parents of children with intellectual disabilities in Sweden. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. Vol 50 (12) pp. 963-969

Baker, B; Blacher, J. & Olsson, M.B (2005) Preschool children with and without developmental delay: Behaviour problems, parents' optimism and well-being, Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. Vol 49(8), pp. 575-590

Olsson, M.B., & Hwang, C.P. (2003) The influence of macro structure of society on the life situation of families with a child with intellectual disability - Sweden as an example, Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, vol.47(4/5), 328-341.

Olsson, M.B., & Hwang, C.P. (2002) Sense of coherence in parents of children with different developmental disabilities, Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, vol. 46 (7), p.548-559.

Olsson, M. B., & Hwang, C. P. (2001) Depression in mothers and fathers of children with intellectual disability, Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, vol. 45, p.535-545.

Book Chapters: Broberg, Malin (2009) Utvecklingspsykologiska teorier, i Pediatrisk omvårdnad, Hallström & Lindberg, red. Liber

Broberg, Malin. (publiceras 2009) Bemötande och informationsbehov, i Pediatrisk omvårdnad, Hallström & Lindberg, red. Liber.

Broberg, Malin (publiceras 2009) Familjens liv och villkor, i Pediatrisk omvårdnad, Hallström & Lindberg, red. Liber.

Olsson, M. B., (2008) Psykisk ohälsa hos barn och unga med intellektuella funktionshinder. Psykologtidningen

Olsson, M. B. (2006) Ett ovanligt föräldraskap, i Inre och Yttre världar, Hjemlqvist, red, Studentlitteratur s. 80-95

Olsson, M. B. (2001) Utvecklingsstörning, i Ungdomspsykologi, Erling & Hwang, red, Natur och Kultur

Conference proceding

Depression in Mothers and Fathers of Children with Developmental Disabilities, Malin B Olsson, Paper presented at the International Conference of Psychology, ICP, Stockholm, August 2000

Gender Differences in Depression in Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities in Sweden, Malin B Olsson, Paper presented at AAMR’s 125th Annual Meeting and Exhibit Show, Denver, May 2001

The life situation of families with a child with intellectual disability in Sweden, Malin B Olsson, Paper presented at the 12th World Congress of IASSID, Montpellier 14h-t19th of June 2004

Well-being in parents of children with and without intellectual disabilities, Malin B Olsson, Parer presented at the VII European conference on developmental psychology Tenerife, 24-28/8 2005