Projects
Parenting adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder KU Leuven
Parents of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face specific challenges in parenting. However, little is known about parenting behaviours among parents of a child with ASD. Moreover, the literature is especially limited regarding adolescence (12 – 16 years), although this period is associated with additional challenges in parenting, given the multiple physical, social and psychological changes that characterize ...
What you see is not always what you get. Individual differences in adolescent perceptions of parenting and associations with adolescent adjustment Ghent University
Despite the importance of parenting for adolescent adjustment, empirical work usually finds only modest effects of parenting. In this project, it is examined whether adolescent adjustment is affected more strongly by adolescent perceptions of parenting than by parent-reported or observed parenting. Further, it is examined whether personality characteristics affect adolescent susceptibility to parenting because personality affects ...
Study to Understand Challenges and Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Adolescents Living in Urban Poor Communities Ghent University
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds in low resource settings across the globe, there is an urgent need to understand adolescentsU+2019 perceptions about COVID-19, especially their awareness of social distancing/isolation rules, sense of personal vulnerability, and barriers to these measures. It is also important to understand the health consequences of such policies. As the pandemic recedes, young people living in poor urban communities are ...
EuREKA: Training Emotion Regulation in Adolescents Ghent University
Present research project aims to evaluate a transdiagnostic intervention protocol (Eureka; training emotion regulation in adolescents) for adolescents 10-14 years, diagnosed with internalizing or externalizing problems and seeking help in inpatient or outpatient clinical settings The transdiagnostic protocol is innovative as it incorporates the training of different well-evaluated emotion regulation strategies and skills in a strict ...
Negative self-referent processing in depressive adolescents KU Leuven
The epidemiological data are alarming: depression is affecting 8-20% of all youth. This underscores the critical importance of identifying factors involved in the development and maintenance of adolescent depression. Evidence converges on the idea that negative selffocused thinking, at the expense of more positive self-related thoughts is such a factor. However is it the excessive negative selfthinking or rather the lack of protective ...
The role of detained female adolescents’ quality of life in explaining offending outcomes in emerging adulthood Ghent University
It is not well understood why some detained female adolescents refrain from offending whereas others do not. The majority of prospective studies with these females adopt a risk management (instead of a strength-based empowering) perspective, thereby risking to overlook crucial keys to support females’ rehabilitation. The present study takes an important next step towards a strength-based empowering perspective on detained female adolescents ...
Labeling of Enalapril from Neonates up to Adolescents KU Leuven
Children are often treated as small adults—not as the special patients they are. Regulations exist to encourage the development of drugs and formulation for children. However, off-patent drugs are often administered to children without appropriate formulations or systematic investigations. Therefore, the paediatric use marketing authorisation (PUMA) has been designed.
The EMA Paediatric Working Party has prioritized the unmet need for ...
Predicting and explaining the occurrence of non-consensual dissemination of sexts: risk and protective factors among adolescents and emerging adults. KU Leuven
Lately, there has been increasing societal and scientific attention to
sexting and the criminal behaviour of non-consensual dissemination
of sexts (NCDS) among adolescents and emerging adults. Yet, little
empirical research has been executed to predict and explain this
recent offence. This study attempts to fill this gap by examining which
factors contribute to the (non-)occurrence of NCDS. In other words,
this ...
Malleability in mediated ideals: A paradigm to understand effects of contemporary media in adolescents' well-being (MIMIc). KU Leuven
MIMIc will develop and establish a new theoretical perspective that will fundamentally redirect the current research on idealised representations of life in mass and social media and their effects on (adolescent) audiences. MIMIc combines insights from cultural sociology, media theory, and developmental psychology to define the effects of ‘malleable ideals’ in media. Malleable ideals are idealised representations of different achievements and ...