Nina Gårevik

Psychiatric Care

Lecturer, Ph.D

Swedish Red Cross University

Nina Gårevik, psychiatric nurse and lecturer at Swedish Red Cross University at the nursing programme and the specialist nursing programme in psychiatric care. Master in Public Health in 2000, PhD in Medicine in 2013 at Karolinska Institutet. She has long clinical experience in psychiatric emergency care.

Her primary research interests have been related to “doping” and persons who use these drugs and who are not affiliated with a sport association. I have studied side effects of anabolic androgenic steroids among persons (mainly young men), who use these drugs to change their physical appearance for different reasons. Most of these persons are also engaged in diet and exercise programs and the desired result is increased muscle mass. Studies show that thoughts about the body and its appearance can begin early in life, sometimes as early as during childhood and these thoughts also can contribute to mental and emotional problems and even mental illness.

The psychiatric context can in different ways reflect society through a magnifying glass and opportunities and challenges can become clearer to see.

How can we best prevent the increasing mental illness and mental ill health in the population and how can we best take advantage of and collaborate around the various explanatory models for mental health, mental ill health, and mental illness?