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Researcher
Freya Vander Laenen
- Keywords:mental illness, Drug policy, vulnerable people in contact with the criminal justice system, professional secrecy, Prison, Forensic mental health, Vulnerable persons (because of substance use
- Disciplines:Correctional theory, offender treatment and rehabilitation, Courts and sentencing, Punishment and criminal justice
Affiliations
- Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2014 → 14 May 2023 - Department of Penal law and criminology (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2001 → 30 Sep 2014 - Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology (Department)
Member
From1 Apr 1997 → 31 May 1998
Projects
1 - 10 of 27
- Climbing the ladder of participation in prison: applying Participatory Action Research to drug-related harm reductionFrom1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- The impact of the prison environment on drug use in womenFrom1 Nov 2022 → 30 Aug 2024Funding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Considering ethnicity in forensic mental health care: Experiences of migrant and ethnic minority service users and their service providersFrom1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Substance Use and Mental Health care InTegration, a study of service networks in mental health and substance use disorders in Belgium, their accessibility, and the user's needs (SUMHIT)From15 Dec 2020 → 15 Sep 2023Funding: Research programme supporting the federal policy note on drugs
- "RECOvery in PRISon-bis - Evaluation pilotproject 'Substance abuse treatment for persons in detention'From16 Nov 2020 → 31 Dec 2021Funding: Ministery of Social Affairs, Public Health and Environment
- UGent Human Rights Research NetworkFrom1 Jan 2020 → TodayFunding: BOF - research organisations
- Prevalence and effects of performance enhancing drugs in different groups: lessons for a preventive and curative policy in Belgium - PREVPEDFrom1 Feb 2019 → 31 Mar 2020Funding: Research programme supporting the federal policy note on drugs
- Evaluation of pilot projects 'drug assistance for persons in detention' (RECO-PRIS)From1 Jan 2019 → 30 Jun 2020Funding: Ministery of Social Affairs, Public Health and Environment
- The evaluation of the Belgian Drug PolicyFrom15 Dec 2018 → 15 Dec 2021Funding: Research programme supporting the federal policy note on drugs
- Needs assessment of drug users in GhentFrom19 Nov 2018 → 16 Aug 2019Funding: Cities and Municipalities
Publications
1 - 10 of 341
- Tailoring the continuum of care for substance use problems to persons with an Islamic migration background : a co-creative case study(2023)
Authors: Aline Pouille, Arafat Bouachiba, Clara De Ruysscher, Freya Vander Laenen, Wouter Vanderplasschen
- Een evaluatie van het Belgisch drugsbeleid : blijven de beleidsintenties overeind?(2023)
Authors: Eva Blomme, Freya Vander Laenen, Pablo Nicaise, Tom Decorte, Charlotte Colman
Pages: 165 - 184 - Culturally sensitive forensic mental healthcare for racialized people labeled as Not Criminally Responsible : a scoping review(2023)
Authors: Marjolein De Pau, Ruth Vruggink, Stijn Vandevelde, Freya Vander Laenen
Pages: 276 - 288 - 'Watch out for the boogieman' : stigma and substance use recovery among migrants and ethnic minorities(2023)
Authors: Aline Pouille, Clara De Ruysscher, Freya Vander Laenen, Wouter Vanderplasschen
Pages: 571 - 586 - Towards a contextualized understanding of addiction recovery : a mixed-methods approach(2022)
Authors: Lore Bellaert, Wouter Vanderplasschen, Freya Vander Laenen
- Are mentally disordered offenders admitted to appropriate secure settings according to security needs? A cross sectional study in Belgium(2022)
Authors: Pablo Nicaise, Delphine Bourmorck, Marjolein De Pau, Freya Vander Laenen, Wouter Vanderplasschen, Vincent Lorant
Pages: 307 - 319 - Addiction and recovery in Dutch governmental and practice-level drug policy : what’s the problem represented to be?(2022)
Authors: Thomas Martinelli, Freya Vander Laenen, Gera Nagelhout, Dike van de Mheen
Pages: 547 - 567 - Recovery capital among migrants and ethnic minorities : a qualitative systematic review of first-person perspectives(2022)
Authors: Aline Pouille, Charlotte De Kock, Freya Vander Laenen, Wouter Vanderplasschen
Pages: 845 - 875 - Suïcidaal gedrag in Belgische gevangenissen : overzicht en geïntegreerd preventiemodel(2022)
Authors: Louis Favril, Kurt Audenaert, Gwendolyn Portzky, Freya Vander Laenen
Pages: 166 - 172 - Drughulpverlening in de gevangenis : welke richting moeten we uit?(2022)
Authors: Marjolein De Pau, Freya Vander Laenen
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