237 search results for “childhood trauma” in the Public website
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Improving PTSD treatment for adults with childhood trauma (IMPACT-study)
The aim of this project is to investigate the (cost)effectiveness of two innovative forms of trauma-focused therapy for patients with childhood abuse related PTSD. The ultimate goal is to improve quality of care and contribute to treatment innovation for this severely ill target population.
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Exposure therapy also helps patients with childhood trauma process the past
Childhood trauma can have a lifelong effect. Many therapists do not dare to confront these vulnerable patients with their past because they are concerned that the patients will be unable to cope. Research has now shown that exposure therapy can be helpful for this group of people.
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Lisa van den Berg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marieke Tollenaar
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marie-Louise Kullberg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Childhood precursors of adulthood psychosis
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Challenges and opportunities in Trauma research
PhD Defence
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The social brain in middle childhood
A neurobiological perspective on individual differences in social competence
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Comorbidities, complications and treatment of childhood obesity
Childhood obesity is an increasing health issue. In the first part of this thesis comorbidities in children with obesity were studied, concerning the diagnostic process and dosing regimens.
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Mona Shahab
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Early intervention and treatment prediction in childhood specific phobias: Combining one-session-treatment with app-based technology
Can a newly developed, app-based, personalized maintenance program enhance the effectiveness of the exposure-based one-session-treatment for children with a specific phobia?
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The link between hearing loss, language, and social functioning in childhood
The aim of this thesis was to study the link between hearing loss, language skills, and social functioning in deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children. Sufficient language skills are an essential prerequisite to develop appropriate communication skills, in order to join in conversations with others.…
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Maarten Kunst
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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The effect of an Emotional Working Memory training on emotion regulation capacities in Borderline Personality Disorder
Does an Emotional Working Memory Training show a beneficial transfer effect on emotion regulation (reappraisal) capacities in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder?
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MDMA and virtual reality as trauma treatment
Military veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder often have symptoms that are both chronic and complex. Professor by Special Appointment Eric Vermetten is looking for new ways to help them deal with these. One possible medicine: party drug MDMA.
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Joanna Mouthaan
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jacqueline Guicherit-Dicke
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sandy Overgaauw
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Nadia Garnefski
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marike Kooistra
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Social brain active in childhood already
Exclusion elicits the same response in children as in adolescents and adults. That is what psychologist Mara van der Meulen found when she studied brain activity in primary schoolchildren. ‘What is new for us is that it is the same in childhood as later in life.’ Doctoral defence on 10 December.
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Memory in Early Modern Europe 1500 - 1800
For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone.
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Friendship strengthens mental resilience of adolescents with unpleasant childhood experiences
As young people’s friendships improve, their mental resilience also increases. This is according to research conducted by Anne-Laura van Harmelen, Professor of Brain, Safety and Resilience at Leiden University.
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Childhood empathy important predictor of aggression
Young children who are less empathetic than their peers are more likely to be aggressive when older. This is what Malou Noten concludes in her dissertation. PhD defence on 25 November.
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Evelien Walhout
Faculty of Humanities
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Influence of dissociation on the neural correlates of Emotional Working Memory in Borderline Personality Disorder
How do dissociative states affect the ability to suppress emotional distraction (in the context of a working memory task) in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder?
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Sabine van der Asdonk
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sandrine Gallois
Faculteit Archeologie
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Maximilian Scheuplein
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Chris Hoeboer
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Self-regulation models
... which build on self-regulation and stress-regulation theories and considers the modification of cognitions as a mediator of therapeutic change.
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Bareez Majid
Faculty of Humanities
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Leukemia treatment & cognitive development
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Philip Brandner
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Cognitive and behavioural emotion regulation after negative and traumatic life events
To study relationships between emotion regulation after negative and traumatic life events and psychopathology. Within this context, another goal is to develop and validate emotion regulation questionnaires.
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Psychology
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Like me or else...
Nature, nurture and neural mechanisms of social emotion regulation in childhood
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Aggressive behavior in early childhood
PhD Defence
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Mental Health in Conflict: Counter-Revolutionary Trauma in Egypt
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Representations of Sexual Trauma and the Potential for Recovery: The Case of Elif Şafak’s Trauma Fiction
PhD Defence
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Research
The aim of our research program is to better understand the aetiology and course of mood, anxiety and trauma and stressor-related disorders and to test and improve treatments for these disorders.
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Comorbidities, complications and treatment of childhood obesity
PhD Defence
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The social brain in middle childhood
PhD Defence
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OPENup: Optimizing exposure therapy for Posttraumatic Stress disorder
Although exposure therapy is the gold-standard treatment of posttraumatic stress-disorder (PTSD), only half of the patients adequately benefit from it. Based on recent insights into the mechanisms of extinction, this project examines strategies and techniques to improve exposure treatment outcome in…
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The balkan war (1912-1913) and visions of the future in Ottoman Turkish literature
Engin Kiliç defended his thesis on 11 june 2015
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Autism & Psychosis
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Diagnosis and treatment of obese children with insulin resistance
Promotors: C.A.J. Knibbe, Anthonius de Boer, Co-promotor: M.M.J. van der Vorst
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LIBC Stress & Emotion
All living creatures have to cope with environmental demands and threats that challenge their physical or emotional homeostasis.
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Forensic Family and Youth Care Studies
The program group Forensic Family and Youth Care Studies of the Institute of Education and Child Studies deals with the developmental processes of vulnerable children, young people and families. We try with our research to find out how problematic development processes can be prevented and how we can…
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Universality without uniformity: Early childhood parenting across the globe
Lecture, Studium Generale