معرفی
Sofie Westling is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, specializing in Psychiatry. She serves as a Research Team Manager and Consultant, focusing on clinical challenges related to self-harm, suicidality, and personality disorders.
Research Interests:
- Ethical and clinical conflicts in psychiatric admissions for recurrent self-harm
- Cognitive function and brain imaging in high-risk individuals
- Development of tools for self-harm monitoring
- National highly specialized care (e.g., intractable self-harm, gender dysphoria)
Research Trends:Her recent work emphasizes self-harm interventions, healthcare economics, and qualitative analyses of patient and caregiver experiences. Key methodologies include cluster analysis, latent profile modeling, and multimodal evaluations.
Projects:Active collaborations include studies on dialectical behavior therapy outcomes, self-identification with borderline personality disorder, and cost-effectiveness of self-referral admissions.
Supervision:She has supervised multiple PhD projects on topics like identity in borderline personality disorder and patient simulations.
