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| 13/02/2003 Research unit in
Vadstena inaugurated.
Former national police commissioner, Mr. Björn Eriksson,
who is county governor of the County of Östergötland,
cut the tape to the forensic mental health research and development
unit at the regional forensic mental health unit in Vadstena. With
his background in the police force, Björn Eriksson could with
ease in his inaugural address refer to his own experiences of violence
and combating violence.
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Medical superintendent, Dr. Christina Karlsson,
was moderator at the inauguration and told of the need for research
and development in the field of mental health. The new head of the
R&D unit, clinical psychologist Mats Dernevik,
said that the unit will be highly applied and give highest priority
to issues of major relevance within day-to-day clinical activities.
Dernevik also referred to several local projects, among them the
RISK project, which he has run at the unit since 1996. Research
at the R&D unit is carried out in an academic collaboration
with Karolinska Institutet and the CVP.
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To round off, director of CVP, Dr. Martin Grann,
talked about CVP and its visions. Vadstena is the second county-run
forensic mental health care unit to create ties between its R&D
unit and CVP (Säter was the first). The interests of the County
Council of Östergötland and the Vadstena unit are represented
in CVP's strategy group by Dr. Per Nettelbladt,
the county's R&D co-ordinator within the field of mental health
and primary healthcare.
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