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How do adolescents and parents experience parenting in daily life? 23 September 2021
How adolescents perceive parenting is related to their mood. Differences between the perspectives of parents and adolescents are also of importance fo...
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How do you help a child suffering from depression? 08 July 2021
What causes depression in a child and how can they get over it? Leiden Professor of Psychology Bernet Elzinga and behavioural scientist Carine Kielstr...
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LUF grant to take the war out of children 01 July 2021
Sandy Overgaauw has been awarded a 25,000 euro grant from the LUF for her research into PTSD in Syrian refugee children in the Netherlands. The resear...
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Child abuse from generation to generation: what role does the brain play? 28 June 2021
‘We didn’t find any mechanisms in the brain for transmitting child abuse from generation to generation. What we did find is that experiences of neglec...
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Ruth van Vugt: different ways of getting to a job as a clinical psychologist 11 May 2021
Most students of Psychology want to work in mental healthcare (GGZ). This makes the master’s specialisation in Clinical Psychology a logical choice. I...
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Help us prevent student burnout! 30 April 2021
We are looking for students who are 16 years or older and are studying at a Dutch mbo, hbo or university. Our aim is to gain insight into the needs an...
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International appreciation for Eiko Fried 22 March 2021
Eiko Fried (Clinical Psychology) was inspired by the idea of mental disorders as complex properties with "fuzzy boundaries", rather than the categor...
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Coaching sessions by psychology master's students? 15 March 2021
Are you interested in working on your well-being, work-life balance or stress levels? Leiden Psychology students are offering a series of 5 individual...
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How do parents’ brains react to feedback about their child? 11 March 2021
Parents appear to be extremely sensitive to feedback they receive about their child. Just how sensitive depends on the (‘rose-tinted’) glasses through...
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Loes Janssen in NWO Synergy Award final 03 February 2021
Loes Janssen would like to foster well-being of families by using an app and sending families short and fun activities each day to do together. For th...
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Exposure therapy also helps patients with childhood trauma process the past 15 January 2021
Childhood trauma can have a lifelong effect. Many therapists do not dare to confront these vulnerable patients with their past because they are concer...
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Psychology prizes 2020 18 December 2020
The Psychology Teaching Award goes to the entire team of teaching staff. The theses awards go to Robert-Jan de Rooij and Florian Thomas-Odenthal. PhD...
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A multi-million grant to keep the biological clock healthy 25 November 2020
Dutch researchers are joining forces to conduct research together with a series of societal partners to keep the biological clock healthy in our moder...
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No evidence for link between depression and diet 16 September 2020
Evidence that the right diet can prevent or alleviate depression is weak. In literature reviews on the subject, the authors often reach strong conclus...
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Daphne Tona maps the brain 07 September 2020
Psychologist Daphne Tona is one of the first to investigate a small nucleus in the brain stem 'in vivo' in living volunteers. That nucleus is involved...