Development and Treatment of Psychosocial Problems

Programme directors: Professor M. Deković and Professor A. L. van Baar

The mission of this research programme is to increase our understanding of the development and (biological and social) determinants of child psychosocial problems by conducting high quality fundamental (focusing on factors and paths leading to (mal)adaptive functioning) as well as applied research (outcome studies or evaluation of interventions aiming to reduce these problems).