Team of Thriving & Healthy Youth
The ‘Thriving and Healthy’ community encompasses the fields of paediatrics, special educational needs, game science, neurobiology, clinical psychology, law, behavioural science, developmental psychology, geography, educational science and more. Interdisciplinary collaboration and the pooling of expertise are central to this field. There are also active links with social partners and practitioners.
Chair
- Im am Professor of Clinical Child and Family Studies, holding the chair Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychosocial and Parenting Problems. Collaboration and making connections is the driving force behind everything I do. For the Thriving and Healthy Youth community, I aim to build on these connections to promote multidisciplinary research and teaching aimed at identifying youth at risk, understand development and promote youth adjustment.
Chair
- I am associate professor in Behavioural Neuroscience, with a long-standing interest in the individual variation in susceptibility to mental health problems, that often arise at young age. For the Thriving and Healthy Youth community, my ambition is to foster interdisciplinary collaborations across faculties, with societal partners and involving early-career scientists.
Chair
- As a paediatrician I am specialising in and subspecialist in social paediatrics. I am Professor of Interdisciplinary Preventive Paediatrics at UMC Utrecht and head of the Social Paediatrics sub-department at Wilhelmina Children's Hospital. For the Thriving and Healthy Youth community, my ambition is to foster interdisciplinary collaborations across faculties, with societal partners and with early-career scientists.
Contact
Would you like to find out more, join our community or stay up to date? If so, please send an email to: thriving.youth@uu.nl