All Stories

  1. “Back to the Future”: Testing the “Individual Problems and Strengths” Scale With a Stepwise Confirmatory Factor Analysis Approach

    Article • Journal of Clinical Psychology, June 2026, Wiley

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  2. The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale Short Form: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Among Parents of Children With Mental Health Disorders in Norway

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, April 2026, Wiley

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  3. Participants' Experiences With the In‐Person and Online Gottman Seven Principles Program for Couples Enhancement: A Qualitative Study

    Article • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, October 2025, Wiley

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  4. Effectiveness of emotion-focused skills training (EFST) for parents: A randomized controlled trial investigating remission of mental health diagnosis and symptom reduction in children

    Article • Psychotherapy Research, May 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  5. Longitudinal evidence of the influence of early life circumstances, family characteristics, social ties and psychological distress on healthy behaviours of Brazilian adults: The Pro-Saude cohort study

    Article • PLOS One, August 2024, PLOS

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  6. Updating prospective marriage and divorce data on Norwegian cohorts of two-sex marriages from 1886 until 2018 with same-sex marriages from 1993 until 2018

    Article • Data in Brief, August 2024, Elsevier

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  7. Effectiveness of the Gottman Seven Principles Couple Enhancement Program

    Article • Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, July 2024, Wiley

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  8. Effects of emotionally oriented parental interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, July 2023, Frontiers

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  9. Emotion‐focused skills training for parents with anxious children. A pilot study

    Article • Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, April 2023, Wiley

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  10. De therapeutische alliantie als voorspeller van vooruitgang in relatietherapie

    Article • Gezinstherapie Wereldwijd, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  11. Addressing the construct validity of the “individual problems and strengths” scale

    Article • F1000Research, October 2022, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  12. Bayes factor benefits for clinical psychology: review of child and adolescent evidence base

    Article • F1000Research, September 2022, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  13. Å bli familieterapeut: En kvalitativ studie av videoveiledning i familieterapiutdanning

    Article • September 2022, Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  14. Same-sex Marriage Over 26 Years: Marriage and Divorce Trends in Rural and Urban Norway

    Article • Journal of Family History, August 2022, SAGE Publications

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  15. Editorial perspective: Bayesian statistical methods are useful for researchers in child and adolescent mental health

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, July 2022, Wiley

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  16. Effectiveness of emotion focused skills training for parents: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial in specialist mental health care

    Article • BMC Psychiatry, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  17. Prospective marriage and divorce data on Norwegian cohorts of two-sex marriages from 1886 until 2018

    Article • Data in Brief, June 2022, Elsevier

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  18. Efficacy of Emotion-Focused Parenting Programs for Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms: A Randomized Clinical Study

    Article • Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Rune Zahl-Olsen, Professor Emeritus Robert Elliott

  19. Bayes factor benefits for clinical psychology: review of child and adolescent evidence base

    Article • F1000Research, February 2022, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  20. Understanding Divorce Trends and Risks

    Article • Journal of Family History, February 2022, SAGE Publications

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  21. Data on the individual problems and strengths scale from the systemic therapy inventory of change. Clinical samples from Norway

    Article • Data in Brief, December 2021, Elsevier

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  22. Cohort data on divorce among first, second and higher order marriages in Norway 1981 until 2013

    Article • Data in Brief, October 2021, Elsevier

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  23. Alliance predicting progress in couple therapy

    Article • Psychotherapy, September 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Terje Tilden, Rune Zahl-Olsen, Professor Asle Hoffart

  24. Predicting change through individual symptoms and relationship distress: A study of within‐ and between‐person processes in couple therapy

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, February 2021, Wiley

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  25. Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen , Bente Austbø , Vanja Hjelmseth , Joanne Dolhanty: Emosjonsfokusert ferdighetstrening for foreldre

    Article • Fokus på familien, September 2020, Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  26. Physical Violence among couples and families seeking therapy

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2019, Frontiers

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  27. Change in Work Functioning after couple and family therapy

    Article • Journal of Family Therapy, October 2019, Wiley

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  28. Feedback in Couple and Family Therapy: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Article • Family Process, September 2019, Wiley

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  29. First, second and higher-order marriages

    Article • Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Rune Zahl-Olsen, frode thuen

  30. Does every other marriage end in divorce? All Norwegian marriages from 1886 until 2013

    Article • Fokus på familien, March 2018, Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  31. Med blikk på oss selv

    Article • Fokus på familien, December 2017, Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  32. Sissel Gran: Det er slutt

    Article • Fokus på familien, March 2017, Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS

    Rune Zahl-Olsen

  33. Kenneth Gergen: An invitation to social construction (3rd edition)

    Article • Fokus på familien, June 2016, Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS

    Rune Zahl-Olsen