Personal information
Professional interests
Persons with intellectual disabilities:
- Attachment
- Challenging behaviour
- Psychological stress
- Visual impairments
- Trauma
- Psychotherapy/treatment
Teaching
Persons with intellectual disabilities:
- Clinical assessment with children and adolescents
- Interuniversity course: Support and care for persons with intellectual and multiple disabilities
- Educational Counseling
Supervising internships (Master)
Supervising Bachelor and Master theses
International student exchange
CV
Next to working as a assistant professor at the VU, from 1994 therapist at the Department of Psychotherapy of Bartiméus www.bartimeus.nl
Education
1991: Master Clinical Psychology (Dept. Psychology, North-West University of Potchefstroom in South Africa)
1993: Master Developmental Psychology (Dept. Psychology, University of Utrecht in The Netherlands)
2002 registered as Healthcare-Psychologist (BIG gz-psycholoog)
2004 registered as General Educationalist (NVO Orthopedagoog Generalist)
2006 registered as Supervisor at the National Association of Educationalists in the Netherlands (NVO).
PhD.2008: Intervening in Stress, Attachment and Challenging Behaviour: Effects in Children with Multiple Disabilities. (promotor: prof. dr. C. Schuengel; co-promotor: dr. C.G.C. Janssen) http://www.bartimeus.nl/publicaties_shop_product/16343
Award
2007 Award of the Dutch Association of Health Care Providers for People with Disabilities / VGN Gehandicaptenzorg prijs