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Anton Käll

Postdoc

My research focuses on how perceptions of the social world affect people's well-being and on developing interventions when this creates problems. The methods used are both internet-based interventions and experimental studies.

The social world and mental health 

The social world and how it is perceived is of great importance for understanding many mental health problems

My research focuses on understanding the role of the social world in mental health. My primary research interest is in understanding the phenomenon of loneliness and why it becomes a lasting problem for some people. For my Ph.D. I investigated whether internet-based psychological treatments can be of help for this group. With the help of the research group’s prior knowledge about internet-based treatments we have created and tested two interventions targeting loneliness. One of these is based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and the other makes use of another one form of psychotherapy called interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT).

Currently I serve as the lead on an experimental study studying how morphine affects social cognition.

Publications

2023

Verena Schneider, Tom Norris, Manjula Nugawela, Emma Dalrymple, Dougal Hargreaves, Anton Käll, Kelsey McOwat, Roz Shafran, Terence Stephenson, Laila Xu, CLoCk Consortium Members (2023) Loneliness Trajectories, Associated Factors and Subsequent Health in Children and Young People During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Matched Cohort Study Psychology Research and Behavior Management, Vol. 16, p. 4461-4477 Continue to DOI
Anton Käll, Gerhard Andersson (2023) Knowledge acquisition following internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for loneliness-A secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, Vol. 81, Article 101872 Continue to DOI
Gerhard Andersson, Anton Käll, Simon Juhlin, Carl Wahlstrom, Edvard de Fine Licht, Simon Färdeman, Anna Franck, Anna Tholcke, Karin Nachtweij, Emma Fransson, Kristofer Vernmark, Mikael Ludvigsson, Matilda Berg (2023) Free choice of treatment content, support on demand and supervision in internet-delivered CBT for adults with depression: A randomized factorial design trial Behaviour Research and Therapy, Vol. 162, Article 104265 Continue to DOI

2022

Tom Cawthorne, Anton Käll, Sophie Bennett, Gerhard Andersson, Roz Shafran (2022) The development of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for chronic loneliness in children and young people: Protocol for a single-case experimental design PLOS ONE, Vol. 17, Article e0278746 Continue to DOI
Noëmi Seewer, Andrej Skoko, Anton Käll, Gerhard Andersson, Maike Luhmann, Thomas Berger, Tobias Krieger (2022) Evaluating the Efficacy of a Guided and Unguided Internet-Based Self-help Intervention for Chronic Loneliness: Protocol for a 3-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial JMIR Research Protocols, Vol. 11, Article e36358 Continue to DOI

Research

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The Internet, Health and Clinical Psychology Research Group

The research group works with many different areas such as anxiety, depression and health problems. Many of the projects work with internet-based CBT, and the group carries out randomised controlled clinical trials.

News

He studies how to treat loneliness – with online therapy

Some 5% of the Swedish population report that they feel alone – often or always. Doctoral student and LiU graduate Anton Käll is studying methods used in internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for helping people with loneliness.

Organisation

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Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning (IBL)

Human behaviour and learning is the focus for education and research at the department. We educate students and scientists that are well equipped to meet future challenges in society and working life.

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