Researcher
Melissa De Smet
- Keywords:psychotherapy, experience sampling methods, depression, adolescent mental health, qualitative research methods, mixed methodology
- Disciplines:Developmental psychology and aging not elsewhere classified, Psychotherapy, Psychological methods not elsewhere classified, Clinical and counselling psychology not elsewhere classified
Affiliations
- Department of Psycho-analysis and clinical consulting (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2014 → Today
Projects
1 - 2 of 2
- Identifying Mechanisms in Adolescent depression and Psychotherapy (I-MAP): An Intensive Longitudinal and Mixed Methods StudyFrom1 Oct 2020 → 30 Sep 2023Funding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- The value of the first person perspective in outcome research (RCT): A mixed method
study on depression and its treatment.From1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2019Funding: FWO fellowships
Publications
1 - 10 of 18
- The Ghent psychotherapy study : a pragmatic, stratified, randomized parallel trial into the differential efficacy of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral interventions in dependent and self-critical depressive patients(2023)
Authors: Reitske Meganck, Mattias Desmet, Kimberly Van Nieuwenhove, Melissa De Smet, Vicky Hennissen, Femke Truijens, Rosa De Geest, Goedele Hermans, Claudi Bockting, Ufuoma Norman, et al.
Pages: 267 - 278 - How questionnaires shape experienced symptoms : a qualitative case comparison study of questionnaire administration in psychotherapy research(2022)
Authors: Femke Truijens, Kimberly Van Nieuwenhove, Melissa De Smet, Mattias Desmet, Reitske Meganck
Pages: 806 - 830 - The nature of client agency prior to therapy : a qualitative study on clients’ narratives(2022)
Authors: Emma Acke, Melissa De Smet, Kimberly Van Nieuwenhove, Reitske Meganck
Pages: 17 - 28 - Change processes underlying 'good outcome' : a qualitative study on recovered and improved patientsU+2019 experiences in psychotherapy for major depression(2020)
Authors: Melissa De Smet, Reitske Meganck, Femke Truijens, Rosa De Geest, Shana Cornelis, Ufuoma Norman, Mattias Desmet
Pages: 948 - 964 - Validity beyond measurement : why psychometric validity is insufficient for valid psychotherapy research(2019)
Authors: Femke Truijens, Shana Cornelis, Mattias Desmet, Melissa De Smet, Reitske Meganck
- No change? A grounded theory analysis of depressed patients' perspectives on non-improvement in psychotherapy(2019)
Authors: Melissa De Smet, Reitske Meganck, Kimberly Van Nieuwenhove, Femke Truijens, Mattias Desmet
- Understanding the different shades of RCT outcome : patients' perspectives on recovery, improvement, no change and deterioration in psychotherapy for depression(2019)
Authors: Melissa De Smet, Reitske Meganck
Pages: 72 - 73 - Depressie in de media : een kwalitatieve pilotstudie naar de ervaringen van patiënten met mediaberichtgeving over depressie(2018)
Authors: Melissa De Smet, Stijn Vanheule, Ignaas Devisch
Pages: 267 - 285 - The Ghent Psychotherapy Study (GPS) on the differential efficacy of supportive-expressive and cognitive behavioral interventions in dependent and self-critical depressive patients : study protocol for a randomized controlled trial(2017)
Authors: Reitske Meganck, Mattias Desmet, Claudi Bockting, Ruth Inslegers, Femke Truijens, Melissa De Smet, Rosa De Geest, Kimberly Van Nieuwenhove, Vicky Hennissen, Goedele Hermans, et al.
- What 'Good outcome' means to patients : understanding recovery and improvement in psychotherapy for major depression from a mixed-methods perspective
Authors: Melissa De Smet, Reitske Meganck, Rosa De Geest, Ufuoma Norman, Femke Truijens, Mattias Desmet
Pages: 25 - 39