Victoria AndrénPhD Student
About me
I am a licenced psychologist, and my current employment is as the director of clinical education for intern psychologists, within Västmanland in Sweden. I am also a PhD student at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm university and at the Centre for clinical research in Västerås.
Before my current employment I have worked at a psychiatric open care facility specializing in patients with psychotic illnesses. I have in my career also done work within the forensic field with for example violence against women and adolescents who have committed sexual crimes.
My overall professional profile is forensic with a focus on violence and deliberate fire-setting.
Teaching
For example, I lecture on:
- Arson - within the course Forensic Psychology (15 credits) at the Department of Law, Stockholm University.
- Mental illness and crime - within the course Forensic Psychology (7.5 credits) at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.
- Men's violence against women - within the course Psychotherapy and psychological treatment, 3: Theory, application and clinic (15 credits) at the Master of Psychology programme, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.
- Conversation about violence - within the course Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine I (7.5 credits) at the Master of Psychology programme, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University.
Examples of previous teaching in higher education:
- Linköping University: on behalf of Barnafrid (national centre for knowledge on violence against children), within the frame of a training course for university teachers, I lectured and was in charge of group reflection, on the subject of feeling safe in issues of violence against children, from a teacher and student perspective.
- Örebro University: according to Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) examined psychology students' clinical skills in patient conversations about domestic violence.
- Uppsala University: on behalf of the National Centre for Knowledge on Men´s violence against Women, taught students, and professionals in the subjects of domestic violence, violence against elderly, violence – vulnerability, honour related violence, and how to ask patients about their experience of violence as a part of work in healthcare.
I have lectured at undergraduate, advanced as well as specialist level (psychologists).
Other pedagogical assignments (in selection)
- 2023 – On behalf of Barnafrid at Linköping University participated in planning, establishment and further development of the Network for everyone who works with teaching about children, young people and violence within our institutions of higher education.
- 2022 – On behalf of The Swedish Gender Equality Agency, and The National Centre for Knowledge on Men's Violence Against Women at Uppsala University, represented the Master of Psychology programme in a reference group for the creation of national web support, regarding teaching about violence, for Swedish universities. The web support is part of the implementation of the degree objective "to show knowledge about men’s violence against women and domestic violence”.
- 2022 – On behalf of Barnafrid at Linköping University, been an expert in, for instance, the areas of "sexual abuse" and "psychological violence and neglect”, prior to the relaunch of a national web-based training course on violence against children, for professionals.
Research
My current PhD studies are within the field of the crime of arson, with main focus on female offenders.
My dissertation examines factors at the time of crime, psychosocial background, and risk factors for crime recidivism for women who commit arson, compared to men who commit arson. The overall aim is to increase knowledge of female offenders of this crime in order to address their specific clinical needs.
