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Overview

Are Holen is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with notable contributions in clinical psychology, social psychology, general health professions, psychiatry and mental health, as well as public health, environmental, and occupational health.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, including:

  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research

Recent publications by Are Holen include:

  • Quality of life and its predictors among aging people in urban and rural Nepal, 2020, Quality of Life Research
  • Social support and disclosure of war-zone experiences after deployment to Afghanistan-Implications for posttraumatic deprecation or growth., 2020, Traumatology An International Journal
  • Nepali Version of Geriatric Depression Scale-15 - A Reliability and Validation Study, 2020, Journal of Nepal Health Research Council
  • Anxiety and Depression during COVID-19 Pandemic among Medical Students in Nepal, 2020, Kathmandu University Medical Journal
  • Have medical students' attitudes towards clinical communication skills changed over a 12-year period? A comparative long-term study, 2020, BMC Medical Education

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Are Holen include:

  • Dipak Kunwar
  • Ajay Risal
  • Eliza Karki
  • Sabina Manandhar
  • Kedar Manandhar

The scientist's findings have been published across several venues, with multiple contributions in:

  • Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
  • Quality of Life Research
  • Traumatology An International Journal
  • Kathmandu University Medical Journal
  • Journal of Nepal Health Research Council

Best Publications

  • Diagnostic criteria for complicated grief disorder

    M J Horowitz;B Siegel;A Holen;G A Bonanno

  • When avoiding unpleasant emotions might not be such a bad thing: Verbal-autonomic response dissociation and midlife conjugal bereavement.

    George A. Bonanno;Dacher Keltner;Are Holen;Mardi J. Horowitz

  • Increased theta and alpha EEG activity during nondirective meditation.

    Jim Lagopoulos;Jian Xu;Inge Rasmussen;Alexandra Vik

  • Pathological grief: diagnosis and explanation.

    Mardi J. Horowitz;George A. Bonanno;Are Holen

  • Depression and Diabetes: A large population-based study of sociodemographic, lifestyle, and clinical factors associated with depression in type 1 and type 2 diabetes

    Anne Engum;Arnstein Mykletun;Kristian Midthjell;Are Holen

  • The relation of continuing attachment to adjustment in conjugal bereavement.

    Nigel P. Field;Christina Nichols;Are Holen;Mardi J. Horowitz

  • Anxiety and depression in Nepal: prevalence, comorbidity and associations

    Ajay Risal;Ajay Risal;Kedar Manandhar;Kedar Manandhar;Mattias Linde;Timothy J. Steiner;Timothy J. Steiner

  • Treating PTSD in refugees and asylum seekers within the general health care system. A randomized controlled multicenter study

    Håkon Stenmark;Claudia Catani;Frank Neuner;Thomas Elbert

  • Associations between attempted suicide, violent life events, depressive symptoms, and resilience in adolescents and young adults.

    Latha Nrugham;Are Holen;Anne Mari Sund

  • The PBL group: self-reflections and feedback for improved learning and growth.

    Are Holen

  • Nondirective meditation activates default mode network and areas associated with memory retrieval and emotional processing

    Jian Xu;Alexandra Vik;Inge Rasmus Groote;Jim Lagopoulos

  • Increased heart rate variability during nondirective meditation

    Anders Nesvold;Morten W Fagerland;Svend Davanger;Øyvind Ellingsen

  • Childhood maltreatment in adult female psychiatric outpatients with eating disorders.

    Gunilla Klensmeden Fosse;Are Holen

  • The effects of long meditation on plasma melatonin and blood serotonin.

    Erik E. Solberg;Are Holen;Øivind Ekeberg;Bjarne Østerud

  • Meditation: a modulator of the immune response to physical stress? A brief report.

    E E Solberg;R Halvorsen;J Sundgot-Borgen;F Ingjer

  • Stress reactivity to and recovery from a standardised exercise bout: a study of 31 runners practising relaxation techniques

    E E Solberg;F Ingjer;A Holen;J Sundgot-Borgen

  • Medical students' cognitive and affective attitudes towards learning and using communication skills--a nationwide cross-sectional study.

    Tor Anvik;Hilde Grimstad;Anders Baerheim;Ole Bernt Fasmer

  • Meditation-specific prefrontal cortical activation during acem meditation: an fMRI study.

    Svend Davanger;Øyvind Ellingsen;Are Holen;Kenneth Hugdahl

  • A longitudinal study of the occurrence and persistence of post‐traumatic health problems in disaster survivors

    Are Holen

  • Risk communication and the willingness to follow evacuation instructions in a natural disaster

    Sverre Kjetil Rød;Carl Botan;Are Holen

  • Alleged sexual abuse at a day care center: impact on parents.

    Grete Dyb;Are Holen;Alan M Steinberg;Ned Rodriguez

  • Parent-child discrepancy in reporting children's post-traumatic stress reactions after a traffic accident.

    Grete Dyb;Are Holen;Kjersti Brænne;Marit S. Indredavik

  • Observed communication skills: how do they relate to the consultation content? A nation-wide study of graduate medical students seeing a standardized patient for a first-time consultation in a general practice setting

    Tore Gude;Per Vaglum;Tor Anvik;Anders Bærheim

Frequent Co-Authors

Per Vaglum
Per Vaglum University of Oslo
Mardi J. Horowitz
Mardi J. Horowitz University of California, San Francisco
George A. Bonanno
George A. Bonanno Columbia University
Odin Hjemdal
Odin Hjemdal Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Tore C. Stiles
Tore C. Stiles Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Arnstein Finset
Arnstein Finset University of Oslo
Arnstein Mykletun
Arnstein Mykletun Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Nigel P. Field
Nigel P. Field Palo Alto University
Thomas Elbert
Thomas Elbert University of Konstanz
Zahava Solomon
Zahava Solomon Tel Aviv University

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