Kjersti Bergum Kristensen

Kjersti Bergum Kristensen is a Research Fellow at UiT The Arctic University of Norway's Regional Knowledge Center for Children and Youth, North (RKBU North) in Tromsø. She specializes in research on children as relatives in health and welfare services, intervention impacts, and VR-based training development (TeraVRi project). She also provides service support for child-focused organizations and conducts training on psychological assessments.

Her research focuses on:

• Children of parents with mental illness
• Family-focused interventions in welfare systems
• VR technology for therapeutic education
• Implementation of child welfare policies
• Parent-child interaction support

Her recent publications analyze mental health service frameworks, family therapy tools, and child welfare practices in Norway, with consistent themes in intervention effectiveness and support systems for vulnerable families.

She leads projects including:

• Barneperspektivsamtalen+ (family-focused intervention tool)
• TeraVRi (VR training development)
• Evaluation of Child Talks+