Mark Hopfenbeck

Project Partner: Mark Hopfenbeck
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Mark Hopfenbeck
Assistant Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Visiting Fellow, London South Bank University

I am a social anthropologist specializing in health and social policy. For the past 15 years I have been teaching postgraduate programmes focusing on Open Dialogue as a value-based approach to mental health care and am currently co-investigator on the ODDESSI trial at UCL and a member of the Advisory Board for the HOPEnDialogue project coordinated by the Italian National Research Council. I am a member of the Relational Welfare research group at NTNU where I also teach mindfulness.Together with Dr Roz Austin, I am co-editor of the ‘Practical Handbooks for Mental Health’ series (PCCS Books).

Key Words: Mental Health, Open Dialogue, Reflective Processes, Mindfulness, Relational Welfare, Green Care, Recovery, Psychosocial Support in Prisons

Preferred Contact

Location

Based in

Norway

Working in

NorwayUnited Kingdom

Areas of interest in VBP

Education,Management, Meeting/ASS (Advanced Studies Seminar),Mental Health Policy,Publications/CUP series, Research/philosophy,Services/person-centered,Services/teamwork

Related areas of interest

Communication and relational skills,Evidence-based practice,Ethics, Mentalhealth philosophy, Medical humanities, Peer support

 

Areas of healthcare expertise:

Mental health/psychosocial interventions,Well-being

 

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For information on Open Dialogue training:


http://apopendialogue.org/


For details of ODDESSI – a programme of research into crisis and continuing mental health care within the NHS:


https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/clinical-educational-and-health-psychology/research-groups/oddessi/what-oddessi-1


For an NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) programme on Relational Welfare:


https://www.ntnu.edu/ipl/relational-welfare


For a programme on dialogue in a time of crisis: