Tonje Lossius Husum

Tonje Lossius Husum is a Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University, specifically within the Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing and Health Promotion. She serves as Head of Studies in her area of responsibility and maintains an active research profile with numerous publications appearing in 2024-2025. Her office is located at Pilestredet 32, 0166 Oslo (Office number: N050.121) and she can be reached via email at tonjelossius.husum@oslomet.no or by phone at +47 412 80 305 (mobile) or +47 672 36 300 (office).

Professor Husum's research primarily focuses on coercion in mental health care, violence risk assessment, and interventions to reduce involuntary psychiatric admissions. She leads the ReCoN (Reducing Coercion in Norway) intervention project, which aims to develop and implement strategies in primary mental health care to reduce involuntary admissions. Her work spans multiple methodologies including prospective naturalistic studies, cluster randomized controlled trials, scoping reviews, and qualitative investigations involving multiple stakeholders in the mental health system.

Her recent publication record demonstrates strong activity in the field, with a particular emphasis on youth mental health services, violence risk assessment tools (particularly the Violence Risk Assessment Checklist for Youth), and implementation science approaches to reducing coercion. The ReCoN intervention appears to be a major focus of her current research program, with multiple publications examining its development, implementation process, and outcomes across Norwegian municipalities.

Through her leadership of the ReCoN project and numerous publications on coercion reduction, Professor Husum has established herself as a significant contributor to mental health services research in Norway, particularly in the areas of reducing coercive practices and improving risk assessment methodologies in both youth and adult mental health settings.