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Maria Tillfors

Professor of Psychology

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‘Striving to achieve control’. Registered nurses’ experiences of palliative care quality during the COVID-19 pandemic – a qualitative study
Tuva Sandsdalen, Ann Karin Helgesen, Vigdis Abrahamsen Grøndahl, Bååth, Maria Larsson, Christina Melin Johansson, Olsson, Tillfors, Jane Österlind, Reidun Hov, Marie Dahlen Granrud - 2025
The experienced route to cognitive health - Cognitive recovery in persons with prior stress-related Exhaustion disorder
Andreas Nelson, Ingela Aronsson, Tillfors, Stigsdotter Neely, Hanna M. Gavelin - 2025
An exploratory study of insomnia and stress in transgender and gender diverse youth, cisgender girls, and cisgender boys
Annika Norell, Jens Hogstrom, Tillfors, Miriam Lindstahl, Matilda Wurm - 2024
An exploratory study of stressors, mental health, insomnia, and pain in cisgender girls, cisgender boys, and transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth
Matilda Wurm, Jens Högström, Tillfors, Miriam Lindståhl, Annika Norell - 2024
Longitudinal links between adolescent social anxiety and depressive symptoms - stressful experiences at home, in school and with peers
Tillfors, Nejra Van Zalk, Katja Boersma, Anniko - 2024
The Relationship Between Social Anxiety Disorder and ADHD in Adolescents and Adults - A Systematic Review
Störe, Nejra Van Zalk, Wilma Granander Schwartz, Victoria Nilsson, Tillfors - 2024
A robot intervention for adults with ADHD and insomnia-A mixed-method proof-of-concept study
Siri Jakobsson Störe, Tillfors, Charlotte Angelhoff, Annika Norell-Clarke - 2023
Changes in Psychiatric Symptoms in Swedish Mothers Who Took Part in Project Support - An Intervention for Mothers Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence With Children Who Have Developed Conduct Problems
Draxler, Hjärthag, Tillfors, Almqvist - 2023
Facing negative emotions - Evaluation of a brief training in validating communication for contact nurses in cancer care
Sara M. Edlund, Johan Carstens Söderstrand, Björn Åkerman, Elsa Hed, Maria Larsson, Tillfors, Olsson - 2023
Health Care Personnel's Perspectives on Quality of Palliative Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic - A Cross-Sectional
Marie Dahlen Granrud, Vigdis Abrahamsen Grondahl, Ann Karin Helgesen, Bååth, Olsson, Tillfors, Christina Melin-Johansson, Jane Osterlind, Maria Larsson, Reidun Hov, Tuva Sandsdalen - 2023
Mind, Body and Machine - Preliminary Study to Explore Predictors of Treatment Response After a Sleep Robot Intervention for Adults with Insomnia
Siri Jakobsson Störe, Tillfors, Wästlund, Charlotte Angelhoff, Gerhard Andersson, Norell-Clarke - 2023
Palliativ vård i Sverige och Norge under Covid-19-pandemin - en kombination av en induktiv och deduktiv innehållsanalys
Olsson, Christina Melin Johansson, Maria Larsson, Tillfors, M. D. Granrud, Vigdis Abrahamsen Grøndahl, Ann Karin Helgesen, Sandsdalen, Bååth, Jane Österlind - 2023
Psychological Treatment Targeting Acceptance and Compassion in Patients With Chronic Pain - A Randomized Controlled, Internet-delivered, Treatment Trial
Monica Buhrman, Tillfors, Fredrik Holländare, Emily Lekström, Alexander Håkansson, Katja Boersma - 2023
Treatment of worry and comorbid symptoms within depression, anxiety, and insomnia with a group-based rumination-focused cognitive-behaviour therapy in a primary health care setting - a randomised controlled trial
Daniel Wallsten, Norell, Malin Anniko, Oskar Eriksson, Varja Lamourin, Ida Halldin, Tina Kindbom, Hugo Hesser, Edward Watkins, Tillfors - 2023
What if you could see yourself with my eyes? - A Pilot Study of the Impact of a Virtual Reality-environment on Relational Responding to Self
Essi Sairanen, Daniel Wallsten, Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Tillfors - 2023
A longitudinal study of prevalence and predictors of incidence and persistence of sub-diagnostic social anxiety among Swedish adolescents
Ewa Mörtberg, Markus Jansson Frojmark, Nejra Van Zalk, Tillfors - 2022
Att möta svåra känslor – Pilotstudie om effekten av bekräftande kommunikation för kontaktsjuksköterskor icancervård och palliativ vård
Tillfors, Sara Edlund, Johan Carstens-Söderstrand, Olsson - 2022
Facing negative emotions - Evaluating the effects of training in affirmative communication for contact nurses in cancer care
S. M. Edlund, J. Carstens-Soderstrand, B. Akerman, E. Hed, Maria Larsson, Tillfors, C. Olsson - 2022
Facing negative emotions - Evaluating the effects of training in affirmative communication for contact nurses in cancer care
S. M. Edlund, J. Carstens-Söderstrand, B. Åkerman, E. Hed, Maria Larsson, Tillfors, Olsson - 2022
Helsepersonells erfaringer med kvalitet i palliativ behandling og omsorg under Covid-19-pandemin - en tverrsnittstudie.
M. D. Granrud, Sandsdalen, Abrahamsen Grøndahl, Ann Karin Helgesen, Bååth, Olsson, Reidun Hov, Tillfors, Jane Österlind, Ingela Henoch, Christina Melin Johansson, Maria Larsson - 2022
Latent stability and change in subgroups of social anxiety and depressive symptoms in adolescence - A latent profile and transitional analysis
N. R. Magson, N. van Zalk, E. Mörtberg, I. Chard, Tillfors, R. M. Rapee - 2022
Nurses caring for patients at the end of life report affected psychosocial work environment when relocated during the COVID-19 pandemic - A cross-sectional study
Olsson, M. Dahlen Granrud, Tillfors, Bååth, V. Abrahamsen Grondahl, A. K. Helgesen, I. Henoch, C. Melin-Johansson, J. Osterlind, Maria Larsson - 2022
Technically sleeping? - A clinical single-case study of a commercial sleep robot
Siri Jakobsson Störe, Tillfors, Wästlund, Charlotte Angelhoff, Norell-Clarke - 2022
The effects of a sleep robot intervention on sleep, depression and anxiety in adults with insomnia - A randomized waitlist-controlled trial
Siri Jakobsson Störe, Tillfors, Wästlund, Charlotte Angelhoff, Gerhard Andersson, Norell-Clarke - 2022
The effects of a sleep robot intervention on sleep, depression and anxiety in adults with insomnia - A randomized waitlist-controlled trial
Siri Jakobsson Störe, Tillfors, Wästlund, Charlotte Angelhoff, Gerhard Andersson, Norell-Clarke - 2022
The effects of a sleep robot intervention on sleep, depression and anxiety in adults with insomnia - Study protocol of a randomized waitlist-controlled trial
Siri Jakobsson Störe, Tillfors, Wästlund, Charlotte Angelhoff, Gerhard Andersson, Norell-Clarke - 2021
Treating co-morbid insomnia and social anxiety disorder with sequential CBT protocols - A single-case experimental study
Daniel Wallsten, Norell-Clarke, S. Alfonsson, D. Gryphon, H. Eriksson, Tillfors - 2021
Are quantity and content of psychiatric interventions associated with suicide? - A case-control study of a Swedish sample
Holländare, Tillfors, Axel Nordenskjöld, Tabita Sellin - 2020
Does flotation-rest (restricted environmental stimulation technique) have an effect on sleep?
Kjellgren, Norell-Clarke, Jonsson, Tillfors - 2020
Higher- and lower-order personality traits and cluster subtypes in social anxiety disorder
Madalina Elena Costache, Andreas Frick, Kristoffer Månsson, Jonas Engman, Vanda Faria, Olof Hjorth, Johanna M. Hoppe, Malin Gingnell, Örjan Frans, Johannes Björkstrand, Jörgen Rosén, Iman Alaie, Fredrik Åhs, Clas Linnman, Kurt Wahlstedt, Tillfors, Ina Marteinsdottir, Mats Fredrikson, Tomas Furmark - 2020
Social Anxiety-Impulsivity Subgroups and Links to Later Emotional Adjustment in Adolescence - A Latent Transition Analysis
Nejra Van Zalk, Tillfors, Ewa Mortberg - 2020
Development of a Shortened Version of the Adolescent Stress Questionnaire (ASQ-S) - Construct validity and sex invariance in a large sample of Swedish adolescents
Malin K. Anniko, Katja Boersma, Nikil Ph. L. van Wijk, Don Byrne, Tillfors - 2018
Does Mid-Treatment Insomnia Severity Mediate between Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia and Post-Treatment Depression? - An Investigation in a Sample with Comorbid Insomnia and Depressive Symptomatology
Norell-Clarke, Tillfors, Markus Jansson-Froejmark, Fredrik Hollaendare, Ingemar Engstroem - 2018
Mothers’ and Fathers’ Worry and Over-Control - One Step Closer to Understanding Early Adolescent Social Anxiety
Nejra van Zalk, Tillfors, Kari Trost - 2018
Musculoskeletal pain in early adolescence - A longitudinal examination of pain prevalence and the role of peer-related stress, worry, and gender
Matilda Wurm, Malin Anniko, Tillfors, Ida Flink, Katja Boersma - 2018
Sources of stress and worry in the development of stress-related mental health problems - A longitudinal investigation from early- to mid-adolescence
M. K. Anniko, K. Boersma, Tillfors - 2018
How does cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia work? - An investigation of cognitive processes and time in bed as outcomes and mediators in a sample with insomnia and depressive symptomatology
Norell-Clarke, Tillfors, Markus Jansson-Fröjmark, Fredrik Holländare, Ingemar Engstrom - 2017
Adolescent Stress Questionnaire - Evaluation of a Short Version in a Sample of Swedish Adolescents
Anniko, Boersma, Tillfors - 2016
Characteristics and consequences of the co-occurence between social anxiety and pain-related fear in chronic pain patients receiving multimodal pain rehabilitation treatment
Wurm, Edlund, Tillfors, Boersma - 2016
Chronic pain and emotional problems - A replicated single case study of an internet based therapist guided treatment based on CBT principles and the Unified Protocol of transdiagnostic treatments
Wurm, Klein Strandberg, Caroline Lorenz, Monica Buhrman, Holländare, Tillfors, Boersma - 2016
Implementing group based parenting programs - A narrative review
Olofsson, Skoog, Tillfors - 2016
Insomnia severity mediates between cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia and depression in a sample with insomnia and depression - New possibilities for treatments of comorbid patients
Norell-Clarke, Tillfors, Lina Wilmenius, Markus Jansson Fröjmark, Fredrik Holländare, Ingemar Engström - 2016
Serotonin synthesis rate and the tryptophan hydroxylase-2 - G-703T polymorphism in social anxiety disorder
Tomas Furmark, Ina Marteinsdottir, Andreas Frick, Kerstin Heurling, Tillfors, Lieuwe Appel, Gunnar Antoni, Per Hartvig, Håkan Fischer, Bengt Långström, Elias Eriksson, Mats Fredrikson - 2016
Social Anxiety, Pain Catastrophizing and Return to Work Self-efficacy in chronic pain - A Cross-sectional Study
Thomtén, Katja Boersma, Ida Flink, Tillfors - 2016
Therapist behaviours in internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy (ICBT) for depressive symptoms
Fredrik Holländare, Sanna Aila Gustafsson, Maria Berglind, Frida Grape, Per Carlbring, Gerhard Andersson, Heather Hadjistavropoulos, Tillfors - 2016
YAPI Stress - Guided Internet Based Prevention of Stress Related Ill-health in Adolescence
Anniko, Tillfors - 2016
Allowing or fighting social anxiety - The role of psychological flexibility in a non-clinical population
Tillfors, Christina Toll, Mattias Branting, Boersma, Markus Jansson-Fröjmark - 2015
Easier to accelerate than to slow down - contributions of developmental neurobiology for the understanding of adolescent social anxiety
Tillfors, Van Zalk - 2015
Group cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia - Effects on sleep and depressive symptomatology in a sample with comorbidity
Annika Norell-Clarke, Markus Jansson-Fröjmark, Tillfors, Fredrik Holländare, Ingemar Engström - 2015
I see you're in pain - the effects of partner validation on emotions in people with chronic pain
Edlund, Maria L. Carlsson, Linton, Alan E. Fruzzetti, Tillfors - 2015
Risk profiles for poor treatment response to internet-delivered CBT in people with social anxiety disorder
Tillfors, Tomas Furmark, Per Carlbring, Gerhard Andersson - 2015
Stress and Emotional Distress in Adolesence - The Role of Worry and Rumination
Anniko, Boersma, Tillfors - 2015
An atypical anxious-impulsive pattern of social anxiety disorder in an adult clinical population
Ewa Mörtberg, Tillfors, Nejra van Zalk, Margaret Kerr - 2014
An investigation of dysfunctional beliefs as a mediator of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia in a sample with insomnia and depression
Norell-Clarke, Tillfors, Jansson-Fröjmark, Holländare, Engström - 2014
Cognitive processes and their association with persistence and remission of insomnia - Findings from a longitudinal study in the general population
Norell-Clarke, Jansson-Fröjmark, Tillfors, Allison G. Harvey, Steven J. Linton - 2014
Serotonin Synthesis Rate and the Tryptophan Hydroxylase-2 G-703T Polymorphism in Social Anxiety Disorder
Iman Alaie, Andreas Frick, Ina Marteinsdottir, Per Hartvig, Tillfors, Elias Eriksson, Mats Fredrikson, Tomas Furmark - 2014
Comorbi social anxiety and pain - Relationship with transdiagnostic psychological processes
Wurm, Edlund, Boersma, Tillfors - 2013
I see you're in pain - The effects of partner validation on emotions in people with chronic pain
Edlund, Maria L. Carlsson, Linton, Alan E. Fruzzetti, Tillfors - 2013
Inhibited and impulsive subgroups of socially anxious young adults - their depressive symptoms and life satisfaction
Tillfors, Eva Mörtberg, Van Zalk, Kerr - 2013
Investigating a comorbid pattern of ill-health among late adolescents in relation to transdiagnostic processes - A prospective community study
Katja Boersma, Tillfors - 2013
Investigating a socially anxious-impulsive subgroup of adolescents - a prospective community study
Tillfors, Nejra Van Zalk, Margaret Kerr - 2013
Two-year outcome of internet-based relapse prevention for partially remitted depression
Fredrik Holländare, Susanne A. Anthony, Mia Randestad, Tillfors, Per Carlbring, Gerhard Andersson, Ingemar Engström - 2013
Prospective links between social anxiety and adolescent peer relations
Tillfors, Persson, Maria Willén, William J Burk - 2012
Underlying factors of social anxiety and pain - Aspects of self-focused attention – private and public self-consciousness
Tillfors, Kristofer Ekbäck, Linton, Boersma - 2012

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