Centre for Evidence-based Psychosocial Interventions, CEPI,

Our research is interdisciplinary and focuses on subjects such as living conditions, support and care initiatives as well as policy and implementation. Through our research, we want to contribute to effective health care and support for persons who experience mental health problems to facilitate a meaningful life in the community. Our research regards focus on participation with an emphasis on social inclusion. This is made visible both in the choice of research questions and in our way of planning, implementing, and communicating our research. Furthermore, we want our research to have practical relevance, which is why we build practice research networks where users, staff and managers partake.

Historically, we have been particularly interested in the development and implementation of evidence-based psychosocial interventions important for the individual's personal recovery. Currently we increasingly focus on the lived experience perspective on recovery and profile ourselves as a research network with extensive research knowledge of user influence and strategies of how to enhance user involvement and co-production in research. We also take an interest in how the environment can promote and hinder social inclusion and participation, such as negative attitudes and stigma towards mentally ill persons, for example. Digital solutions are also part of how the environment may facilitate user involvement and participation.

The CEPI management, chancellery, and communication function is placed at Lund University. A steering committee of eight researchers from a number of Swedish universities enjoy meeting up four times annually and come together with the larger CEPI network twice a year, a network consisting of over 50 people. This larger network group consists of researchers, many of whom are clinically active, some have own lived experience of mental health problems or as a family caregiver. The network also involves user organizations from different national regions.