Projects
Pastoral Accompaniment for Patients with a Severe and Enduring Psychiatric Disorder: A Theologically grounded Framework KU Leuven
Dealing with Unbearable Existential Suffering in Psychiatric Patients: A Palliative Care Model. KU Leuven
Humanizing questions. Exploration of the existential dimension in psychiatry through research on demoralization in patients with schizophrenia KU Leuven
Humanizing questions. Exploration of the existential dimension in psychiatry through research on demoralization in patients with schizophrenia.
(Doctoral thesis offered to obtain the degree of Doctor of Psychological Sciences, 2019). Supervisors: Prof. dr. Jozef Corveleyn and Prof. dr. Bernard Sabbe (UAntwerp). Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Patrick Luyten.
Background In patients with a severe psychiatric disorder, it is not ...
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide for Psychiatric Disorders Clinical and Ethical Perspectives KU Leuven
Euthanasia and/or assisted suicide for psychiatric disorders (psychiatric EAS) has been legalized in some European countries such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Luxembourg. The controversial character of psychiatric EAS requires an in-depth analysis of some important clinical and ethical issues. These insights will contribute to the scientific and societal debate, both in jurisdictions allowing the practice as well as in those ...
Evaluation of Psychiatric High and Intensive Care in Belgium KU Leuven
Evaluation of Psychiatric High and Intensive Care KU Leuven
Since 2010 Belgium’s mental healthcare is transforming towards a functional model of community based care. As in other European countries, given this paradigm shift, community- and hospital-level efforts are made to reinforce psychiatric inpatient services to provide more intensive care for patients with severe mental illness. In 2019, commissioned by the federal government, the implementation of High and Intensive Care units (HIC’s) – ...
Discharge management in psychiatric hospitals. KU Leuven
Reakiro: a care model for people with a well-considered death wish due to unbearable psychiatric suffering KU Leuven
Reakiro is a walk-in house where people with a death wish due to unbearable mental suffering caused by psychiatric illnesses are welcome to gather information on psychiatric euthanasia (PE) or seek support, shelter, recovery-oriented care and existential counselling when struggling with the life-or-death dilemma. The aim of Reakiro is to create tailored mental healthcare attuned to this target population with a central focus on facing the ...