Karin Hammerfald

Postdoctoral Fellow - Clinical Psychology
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Email karin.hammerfald@psykologi.uio.no
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Visiting address Forskningsveien 3A Harald Schjelderups hus 0373 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1094 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Academic interests

  • Clinical psychology and treatment research

  • Internet-delivered interventions

  • Research at the interface between psychotherapy and AI/machine-learning 

  • Mechanisms of change in psychotherapy

  • Personalized treatment / precision mental health

Research Project

I am working on the project “ALEC2 - Adaptive Levels of Effective and Continuous Care to Common Mental Health Disorders (CMDs)”. My supervisor is Ole-André Solbakken.

Background

2022-2025: Post-Doc Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo

2021: Certificate with distinction in Telehealth: Strategy, Implementation, Optimization, University of Stanford, USA

2020-2022: Head of Operations, German-speaking markets, Braive, Stockholm, Sweden

2018-2019: Chief Clinical Psychologist, Sanatorium Kilchberg, Zürich, Switzerland

2012-2013: DAS with distinction in Cognitive Behavioural Supervision, University of Zürich, Switzerland

2010-2017: Head of Quality Management, Sanatorium Kilchberg, Zürich, Switzerland

2004-2010: Case Managing Psychologist, Sanatorium Kilchberg, Zürich, Switzerland

2002-2007: MAS with distinction in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Behavioural Medicine, University of Zürich, Switzerland

2002-2005: PhD with distinction in Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Behavioural Medicine, University of Zurich

1995-2002: MSc with distinction in Psychology (Diplom-Psychologin), University of Trier, Germany

Research Team

Awards

APS Scholar Award, issued by the American Psychosomatic Society · Jun 2003

FAN Research Grant, issued by Fond zur Förderung des akademischen Nachwuchses (FAN) · Apr 2002

DAAD Travel Grant, issued by Deutscher Akademischer Auslandsdienst (DAAD) · Mar 1997

Tags: Clinical psychology, Internet, psychotherapy, machine learning

Publications

  • Schlotz, Wolff; Hammerfald, Karin; Gaab, Jens & Ehlert, Ulrike (2011). Individual differences in the cortisol response to stress in young healthy men: Testing the roles of perceived stress reactivity and threat appraisal using multiphase latent growth curve modeling. Biological Psychology. ISSN 0301-0511. 87(2), p. 257–264. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.03.005.
  • Hammerfald, Karin; Eberle, Claudia; Grau, Michaela; Kinsperger, Alexandra; Zimmermann, Alice & Gaab, Jens (2006). Persistent effects of cognitive-behavioral stress management on cortisol responses to acute stress in healthy subjects—A randomized controlled trial. Psychoneuroendocrinology. ISSN 0306-4530. 31(3), p. 333–339. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2005.08.007.
  • Hammerfald, Karin; Gaab, Jens & Ehlert, Ulrike (2003). Stress susceptibility and the endocrine stress response. Journal of Psychophysiology. ISSN 0269-8803. 17(3), p. 152–152.
  • Russell, Janice; Abraham , Suzanne; Hammerfald, Karin; Gross , Gaby & Beumont, P.J.V. (2000). Reproductive function of anorexia nervosa patients 6-10 years after treatment. Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry (Print). ISSN 0004-8674. 34, p. 57–57. doi: 10.1080/000486700749.

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  • Schmidt, Fabian; Hammerfald, Karin; Haaland Jahren, Henrik; Solbakken, Ole Andre; Payberah, Amir H. & Vlassov, Vladimir (2023). Using Machine Learning to Recommend Personalized Modular Treatments for Common Mental Health Disorders.

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