Gunn Kristin Øberg

Gunn Kristin Øberg was educated as a physiotherapist at the Physiotherapy university college Oslo (1981). She completed her Masters- and PhD degree at the University of Tromsø (2002, 2008). At present she is a post-doctoral research fellow and an associate professor at the University of Tromsø.

She also works as a physiotherapist at the University Hospital Northern Norway, Tromsø where she since 1990 has been working with children. Her doctoral thesis is about Physiotherapy to ex-preterm infants; sensitivity, interaction and motion. Her current research concerns effects of early intervention to preterm infants. She also examines parents` experience with active participation during intervention.

Ragnhild Onsøien, Psych. Spec.

Psykologspesialist med 36 års erfaring.
Brukt Marte Meo i 20 år, mest opptatt av hvordan få gitt effektiv og god hjelp til de minste barna og deres familier.

Liv Fegran
Ass. Professor at Faculty of Health and Sport at the University of Agder

Liv Fegran has a PhD in Nursing Science. She has many years experience from paediatric and neonatal units, and has since 1992 been employed by Agder University, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences. Fegran teaches bachelor and master programs in health and nursing, and she is also coordinating a Master program in Health sciences. She is member of the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority’s council for neonatal, maternal and pregnancy care. Fegran’s research concerns neonatal care with specific focus on parents’ experiences in connection with having a premature born infant.

Publications:
Fegran, L., Helseth, S. & Slettebø, Å. (2006) Nurses as moral practitioners encountering parents in neonatal intensive care units. Nursing Ethics, 13(1), 52-64.
Fegran, L., Helseth, S. & Fagermoen, M.S. (2008) A Comparison of Mothers’ and Fathers’ Experiences of the Attachment Process in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 17(6), 810-816.
Fegran, L., Fagermoen, M.S. & Helseth, S. (2008) Development of parent-nurse relationships in neonatal intensive care units – from closeness to detachment. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 64(4), 363-371.
Fegran, L. and S. Helseth (2009). “The emotional labour of being in a parent-nurse relation in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; the commitment of closeness.” Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences 23(4): 667-673.

Helen Neville, BS, RN.

Helen Neville was born in British Columbia, attended the University of California at Berkeley, and graduated with a BS, RN from the University of California in San Francisco. She began to study temperament with Dr. James Cameron of “The Preventive Ounce,” and for 10 years coordinated the Inborn Temperament Project at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland. The goal was to help parents adapt their parenting strategies to their child’s inborn temperament. Since 1993, she has regularly taught a 6-week series for parents of “Spirited Children,” co-sponsored by Kaiser Permanente and Bananas, Inc. She currently works in the Department of Pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente in Richmond, California

Her temperament work led to two publications. First, Temperament Based Parenting Classes (with Kaiser co-workers, Jan Kristal, MA and Rona Renner, RN, through the Kaiser Permanente Regional Health Education Department). Second, Temperament Tools: Working with Your Child’s Inborn Traits (with Diane Clark Johnson, Parenting Press, Seattle, WA).
Recently, she published the award winning Is This a Phase? Child Development and Parent Strategies, Birth to 6 Years, (2007).

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