Camilla Wasserman
Senior Research Specialist
E-mail: camilla.wasserman@ki.se
Visiting address: Granits väg 4, 17177 Solna
Postal address: C7 Lärande, Informatik, Management och Etik, C7 NASP Carli, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- I am a public health researcher with degrees in Anthropology and Health
Sciences. My research activities focus on youth and their mental health. I
develop mental health promotion interventions, collaborate on program
adaptation and evaluation, and design and analyze qualitative research
studies, some of which have been adjacent to larger epidemiological
studies. In all my work I set out to center youth, inviting their
experiences and the meanings and vocabulary they attribute to events and
everyday life to take center stage.
I am the co-creator of an evidence-based mental health promotion program
called Youth Aware of Mental health (YAM) designed to empower youth in
reflecting on mental health and developing problem-solving skills and
solidarity in play and discussion with their peers.
I am currently working on a research project about how mental health
correlates with leisure/free time over which youth are given various degrees
of autonomy. Youth-directed spaces, where they are available and
well-resourced, might be a part of the picture of youth mental health that we
do not yet properly understand.