Sabina Gušić is a licensed senior clinical psychologist specialized in assessment and treatment of PTSD/CPTSD and researcher specializing in child and adolescent psychopathology, trauma, dissociation, and early prevention of mental illness. She completed her PhD at Lund University with the dissertation “I feel like I do not exist”: Adolescent Dissociative Experiences and the Importance of Trauma Type, Attachment, and Migration Background, which examined how trauma type, emotional abuse, migration experiences, and insecure attachment patterns shape dissociation in adolescence.

She works at Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Region Skåne) and is part of Innovations in Pediatric Mental Health, a translational research environment led by Associate Professor Matti Cervin and Professor Eva Serlachius. In this role she contributes to the design, coordination, and implementation of large-scale clinical and developmental studies, with a focus on research infrastructure, program theory, and multimethod assessment, clinician training, and clinically grounded developmental modeling.

Sabina is coordinating daily operations of the MAX trial, an RCT for pediatric anxiety disorders. MAX is one of the largest and most methodologically advanced trials in European child anxiety research.

Her research within the IRMA project led by Assoc.Prof. Cervin focuses on understanding how mental health trajectories develop from late childhood to early adolescence. IRMA combines a longitudinal cohort, an embedded RCT, repeated multi-informant assessments, narrative and reasoning tasks, and epigenetic biomarkers to model risk and resilience in real developmental time. Sabina contributes expertise in developmental psychopathology, qualitative methods, task design, program theory, and research–practice integration.

Clinically, she has extensive experience treating trauma, complex PTSD, and dissociation in children, adolescents, and adults — including war-affected and refugee populations — giving her an unusually broad cross-cultural and developmental clinical perspective. Her current clinical work is rooted in specialist PTSD treatment within CAMHS, where she combines evidence-based practice with systems-level understanding of care pathways.

Her long-term aim is to develop and evaluate models that bridge clinical precision, developmental science, and real-world feasibility — ensuring that interventions and preventive strategies work not only in theory or controlled trials, but in the everyday lives of families.