Research A-Z
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
A parent counseling therapy to provide parents new skills in dealing with their children’s interaction problems, to teach them new parenting strategies and enhance parental competence by increasing psychological flexibility.
Adolescent Measure of Empathy and Sympathy (AMES)
A questionnaire for adolescents that measures affective and cognitive empathy, and sympathy.
Bullying in School
A research project on different aspects of bullying and the effects.
CDI-2 Questionnaire for depression in children and adolescents
The CDI-2 is a reliable and valid questionnaire which screens for depressive symptoms in children and adolescents aged 8 to 21 years old.
Children Youth and Media
What is the influence of media on the development of children and adolescents?
Consumed by Conspiracy? The Individual and Social Risk Factors for Radicalisation
What makes youth from 16 to 25 years old vulnerable to conspiracy-radicalization? And what can we do about it?
Coping with stressful life events: Cognitive emotion regulation profiles and depressive symptoms in adolescents
A study on cognitive strategies that adolescents use to cope with negative emotions.
Cracking Conspiracies: Revealing the Socio-Developmental Roots of Radicalisation
This project addresses the question of when and how conspiracy belief can lead to radicalization, paying attention to the role of childhood experiences and social environment.
DigAble
What do neurodivergent young people need to be resilient in an online society and how we can make use of the opportunities that lie ahead in a digital world for these young people?
Digital Family Project
Research on how young people's (problematic) media use and their family context influence each other.
D(o)epressie blended
Examination of the effectiveness and costeffectiveness of D(o)epression Blended compared to D(o)epression face-to-face and CAU to contribute to evidence-based treatment of depressive adolescents in psychiatric care.
Effectiveness and moderators of individual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) versus Treatment As Usual (TAU) in clinically depressed adolescents
A study to test the effectiveness of “Doepressie”, a CBT program for adolescents diagnosed with depression.
Let’s talk about sexting!
Research about young offenders of non-consensual sexting.
Preventing depression in youth
Core elements of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in preventing depression in youth: Does the type and sequence of elements matter?
Prevention and Treatment of anxiety and depression in children and adolescents
A consortium of different research and knowledge institutions and clinical practice made an overview of all the relevant interventions in order to study their characteristics and their effectiveness.
Prosocial Behaviour: Sharing behaviour and Cooperation
This research project specifically examines (pro)social behavior of young children in the peer context.
Resource control strategies and psychosocial skills
This research aims to investigate the effectivity of several forms of cooperative/prosocial behavior as well as social skills for resource control.
Selfregulation: the role of parenting
The contribution of parental characteristics on the development of self-regulation in early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.
Sibling relationships and child and adolescent development
An examination on how sibling relationship develop during childhood and adolescence.
Solid as a rock, flexible as water
Does the Rock & Water (R&W) program contribute to increases in socio-emotional adjustment and social safety of prevocational boys and girls with different ethnic backgrounds?
STAP project
A Study on Attention of Preterm children.
The development of self-regulation in relation to environmental experiences and brain development in babies and toddlers
A large-scale and longitudinal study with repeated measurements of brain and behavioral development that follows children in their development from pregnancy until adolescence.
The effectiveness of Forensic Outpatient Systemic Therapy
FAST is an intensive, outreaching intervention targeting juveniles showing severe antisocial behavior and their families.
The effectiveness of the Meaningful Roles (SterkWerk) intervention
SterkWerk is an approach for groups 5-8 in which children are given specific roles to actively work on responsibility, ownership and prosocial behaviour.
Understanding Juvenile’s Radicalization in the Context of Conspiracy Beliefs: Risk and Protective Factors
Youth in particular are vulnerable to both misinformation and extremist milieus due to their full immersion in the digital world and developing identities.
Young cyberspace cowboys and traditional juvenile street hustlers
New kid in town or just an expansion of criminal territory to cyberspace?
Longitudinal project to examine whether theoretical models relating strain, individual and parenting factors to online youth delinquent behaviour show similarities with the models for offline youth delinquent behaviour.
Youth and Digitalisation
The JEDi project aims to develop action perspectives to seize the opportunities of digitization and reduce the negative impact.