Projects
Perinatal Mental Health AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
The organization of mental health services for children and adolescents in Belgium Ghent University
The Belgian mental health care sector is trying to reorganise the provision of mental health care services for children and adolescents. In order to support the policy makers this research aims at:
- Gather evidence and knowledge to develop a general framework for organising child and adolescent mental health services. This framework should not develop but create opening towards eventually developing more punctual analyses for the ...
Understanding and optimizing the preschool context in Flanders as a foundation for young children’s mental health. Ghent University
The quality of formal childcare has been cited as an important determinant of young children’s mental health, as it has been demonstrated that children’s self-regulation abilities – resulting from repeated cycles of co-regulation in caregiving – hold extreme importance for their mental health, now and later in life. Given the high uptake of formal childcare in Flanders and the high enrollment rates of the youngest children, childcare teachers ...
Elaboration of a Decretal and Implementation Decisions Mental Health KU Leuven
The Decree on Mental Health Care of 1999 is a limited decree in terms of design and is essentially restricted to the mental health centers. Mental health care in Flanders, however, covers more than just the mental health centers. It is a very diverse sector with many actors and subsectors, each with a specific yet often shared role.
In response to the Sixth State Reform, the government of Flanders is developing a new decree: a ...
“The Myth of the non-Western ethnic other”: Exploring structural and cultural racism in mental health care Ghent University
Migrants and ethnic minorities are often confronted with racism and racial stratification in Western countries which increases their probability of developing mental health problems significantly. Yet, studies show that they receive far less or inadequate mental health care than the dominant ethnic group. Recent studies have illustrated the importance of micro-level factors like negative attitudes and interpersonal racism. However, up until ...
The development and evaluation of a tailored, selfregulated and guided mobile mental health promotion programme for adolescents, by optimizing their 24-hour patterns of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep Ghent University
Mental health promotion among youth is an empowering, low threshold approach that can create
large public health effects. Adolescents can protect their mental health by their stress resistance
and resilience, which can be increased by physically active, spending little time sitting and getting
enough sleep. These activity-related behaviours are codependent and should be promoted jointly. A
programme targeting these ...
Evaluation of oral health of people with mental disorders KU Leuven
This doctoral research aims to map the oral health of people with mental disorders in Flanders. This research will identify a subgroup of people with mental disorders who have a high prevalence of oral health problems. The need for oral health care will be evaluated, as well as the feasibility of oral health care promotion. We will also consider the impact that oral health preventive strategies can offer to this subgroup. A screening ...
Erasmus+ Key Action2 : GG : The Good Game project: Promoting mental health in esports Vrije Universiteit Brussel
of esports are also increasingly recognised. Nevertheless, preliminary evidence suggests esports participation can be highly stressful and
have a potential negative mental health impact. Such findings highlight the urgent need for novel mental health interventions tailored to
esports ...