Management group

About me

Adjunct Professor in social work, University of Jyväskylä 

Field of expertise

Substance abuse and its treatment
Treatment effectiveness
Recovery, especially spontaneous recovery
Client's self-efficacy expectations and expectations towards treatment
Working alliance
Client's and therapist's gender, impact on client-therapist relationship
Quantitative, qualitative and triangulative research methods
University pedagogy, especially web-based learning, guidance, assessment

Research topics

social work: substance abuse treatment, therapists, clients, treatment effectiveness, recovery, social work with adults, therapeutic social work, legal issues
university pedagogy: web-based learning, blended learning, guidance, assessment

Research unit

Faculty of Social Sciences, social work, Tampere University

Research fields

social work, social sciences, psychotherapy, psychology, university pedagogy