About the Department of Mental Health
About the Department of Mental Health
The Department of Mental Health conduct research and education to increase our understanding of mental health, mental disorders, developmental disturbances, substance abuse, general rehabilitation, habilitation and child welfare.
The Department has knowledge and expertise on health promotion and treatment in a broad sense of the mental health field. We are dealing with basic research, applied research, epidemiology and clinical research in our fields of expertise. The close collaboration between St. Olavs hospital, municipal health services and central and local child welfare services creates appropriate conditions for clinical research. The department include a national national competence centre, National Institute on Intellectual Disability and Community, NAKU, and a Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, RKBU Central Norway, with dedicated funding and tasks like support and quality enhancement of the public services. More on the research
Department of Mental Health educate Bachelor students in social education, master's and postgraduate students in mental health work and we educate medical- and doctoral students (PhD). We also offer training without credits for employees in the services. More on the education
We are about 180 employees and is part of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (MH) at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The Department of Mental Health is organized in research units and centres.
Management
Ledergruppen ved Institutt for psykisk helse (Management team at the Department of Mental Health)
Deputy head of research and education
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Valentina Maria Do Rosario Cabral Iversen Deputy Head of Research and Innovation
+4792607502 valentina.iversen@ntnu.no Department of Mental Health -
Torunn Hatlen Nøst Deputy Head of Education
+47-73412534 torunn.h.nost@ntnu.no Department of Mental Health -
Solveig Klæbo Reitan Deputy Head of Education, Medical programme
+4748042923 solveig.reitan@ntnu.no Department of Mental Health
Contact
Head of Department
Employees
About us
kontakt@iph.ntnu.no
Address
NTNU Department of Mental Health
NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Location
Campus Øya, Olav Kyrres gate 9, Fred Kavli-building, 4. floor
Study inquiries
studier@iph.ntnu.no
Where to find us
The Department of Mental Health is located in The Fred Kavli-building on Campus Øya, Trondheim. Our offices are placed in the 4th floor, part 1 (south wing) and part 2 (west wing).
The Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare is located in Klostergata 46.
