Projects
Supporting the development of self-regulation in infants: a promising strategy in preventive mental health care. University of Antwerp
Supporting the development of self-regulation in infants: a promising strategy in preventive mental health care Ghent University
A major challenge of the newborn child is to learn to regulate internal states (physiological, emotional, and cognitive) and behavior. The child’s self-regulation stems from successful co-regulation between the baby and its caregiver(s) and constitutes the basis of mental health. Regulation problems (RP) in early childhood are the seeds for emergent developmental psychopathology and for persistent mental health problems later in life. Given ...
Understanding the social context of co- and self-regulatory problems: a promising strategy in preventive mental health care. University of Antwerp
Stigma as a barrier to the effectiveness of mental health care? Ghent University
This study investigates the extent to which the stigma of mental illness can be considered as a barrier for the effectiveness mental health care organizations in Flanders Furthermore, it explores the impact on the effectiveness of the mental health care system by linking stigma with (differential) service use, using international data.
Mental health care professionals and organizations, powerful an conscious agents in the stigma process? Ghent University
This study investigates attitudes of mental health professionals towards persons with mental health problems, paying specific attention to stigma. Attitudes and cognitions of mental health care professionals will be compared to those of the general population and social workers who interact with people with mental problems. The different components of stigmatization will be investigated by quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Towards a relational understanding of trauma narration in coping with collective violence and exile: The interdisciplinary development of community-based mental health interventions for refugee posttrauma care Ghent University
This research focuses on the development of refugee posttrauma care in the field of transcultural psychology and applied theatre in western host societies. With respect to refugee posttrauma care, both fields’ mental health interventions are dominated by similar practices underpinned by an individualizing notion of the process of trauma narration, in which verbally retelling traumatic experiences directly leads to recovery. However, analogous ...
Supporting the development of self-regulation in infants: a promising strategy in preventive mental health care KU Leuven
Knowledge Gap (KG): Infant self-regulation is hypothesized to originate from or persist within parental co-regulation, which itself largely depends on parental self-regulation. Yet, the study of early RP is limited by a lack of clear concepts, objective measures and diagnostic criteria. In clinical contexts, professionals often have to rely on subjective assessments of mother, father and child problems. Furthermore, the proposed links between ...
Mental health nurses' role and contribution in the interdisciplinary care for individuals suffering from suicidal ideation. Ghent University
There is insufficient knowledge to guide and monitor nursing care for individuals suffering from suicidal ideation. As such, this PhD-proposal aims (1) to develop an evidence-based theoretical model of nurses’ and service users’ views on the role of nurses, and (2) to define and validate a set of nursing indicators in the context of suicidality.