Anna Leiler

Anna Leiler is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology and Social Work at Mid Sweden University in Östersund. Her research focuses on refugee mental health, trauma psychology, and cross-cultural psychiatry, particularly examining suicidal ideation, cognitive load during traumatic memory reconsolidation, and psychoeducational interventions.

• Current Projects: AMIR-Intervention, CoRe (Cognitive load during Reconsolidation), RooT (Refugee mental health over Time), Feeling in your own words
• Finished Projects: Refugee Health Screener, Teaching Recovery Techniques (TRT)

Her recent publications explore prolonged grief in refugee populations, pandemic-related mental health trends, validation of screening tools, and the feasibility of trauma interventions. She also presented work on linguistic insecurity in clinical settings and Sámi cultural idioms of distress.

Anna is actively involved in developing scalable mental health solutions for displaced populations, integrating epidemiological data with clinical practice.