Joanne Mouthaan is an associate professor at the Clinical Psychology Department. She studies the psychological effects of trauma.

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Joanne Mouthaan is an associate professor at the Clinical Psychology Department. She studies the psychological effects of trauma. 

Research on trauma

Mouthaans research focuses on prevention, prediction and (early) treatment of psychological responses to trauma. She also investigates suicide prevention, student wellbeing and technological innovations in mental health care and mental health professional training, i.e., via e-health and e-learning.

In 2015, she was awarded the Jan van Dijk Victimology and Victims' Rights Award for her dissertation “Injured Bodies, Injured Souls?” on the prediction and prevention of trauma-related psychological symptoms after injury. 

She is part of the International Consortium on Prediction of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (ICPP) and the CONNECT Research Group under the ADJUST Study Consortium on psychosocial responses of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Projects and grants

Joanne Mouthaan is project leader of the STAP-study on writing therapy for PTSD by mental health care nurses in general practice. She also leads the project E-learning Suicide Prevention Skills for Psychologists in Training as part of the Third National Agenda Suicide Prevention 2021-2025, for which she was awarded the FSW Casimir Award for innovative implementation.

Education

She teaches theoretical, methodological and clinical skills courses, supervises Bachelor and Master theses, and coordinates the Master elective course Trauma and Mental Health. As the lead from Leiden University she collaborates with Erasmus University Rotterdam on a pilot to enhance the transition between the academic and post-academic psychology curricula (“Pilot Aansluiting Master-GZ”).

Collaborations

Joanne Mouthaan is Chair of the Dutch Association for Psychotrauma (NtVP), immediate Past President and current Treasurer of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS), and Editorial Board Member at the European Journal for Psychotraumatology.

Grants and prizes

• Leiden University Faculty for Social Sciences Grass Shoots grant for an AI chatbot for conversational skills on suicidality (2025) and e-learning for Groupwise Thesis Supervision (2025)
• FSW Casimir prize for educational innovation for the implementation of an e-learning for suicide prevention skills for bachelor and master Psychology (2023)
• Nominee for DevelHub Impact Traject Award for e-learning on suicide prevention skills for the psychology curriculum (2023)
• National Agenda Suicide Prevention 2021-2025 project subsidy for Development of E-learning for Suicide Prevention Skills for Mental Health Care Personnel in Training (2020)
• Leiden University Faculty for Social Sciences Grass Shoots grant for e-learning module development for online treatment skills (2018)
• Nominee for Institute of Psychology teaching award of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University (2018; 2021; 2022)
• Jan van Dijk Victimology and Victims' Rights Award for PhD thesis “Injured Body, Injured Soul? Predicting and Preventing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After Injury” (2015)
• Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) Efficiency grant (2005)
• Achmea Foundation for Victims and Society (Stichting Achmea Slachtoffer en Samenleving) (2005)

Publications