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 20
- 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 - ' I felt like my senses were under attack' : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of experiences of hypersensitivity in autistic individuals(2023)
Authors: Liesbeth Taels, Jasper Feyaerts, Marie Lizon, Melissa De Smet, Stijn Vanheule
Pages: 2269 - 2280 - What is it like to be the object of research? On meaning making in self-report measurement and validity of data in psychotherapy research(2023)
Authors: Femke Truijens, Melissa De Smet, M. Vandevoorde, Mattias Desmet, Reitske Meganck
- 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 - Evidence for the non-evidenced : an argument for integrated methods and conceptual discussion on what needs to be evidenced in psychotherapy research(2021)
Authors: Femke Truijens, Melissa De Smet, Reitske Meganck, Mattias Desmet
Pages: 137 - 140 - Validity of data as precondition for evidence : a methodological analysis of what is taken to count as evidence in psychotherapy research(2021)
Authors: Femke Truijens, Melissa De Smet, Mattias Desmet, Reitske Meganck
Pages: 115 - 128 - The patient’s change : understanding the complexity of the dynamics of change and its precursors in psychotherapy(2021)
Authors: Giulio de Felice, Reitske Meganck, Gunter Chiepek, Melissa De Smet
- When ‘good outcome’ does not correspond to ‘good therapy’ : reflections on discrepancies between outcome scores and patients’ therapy satisfaction(2021)
Authors: Melissa De Smet, Camilla Von below, Emma Acke, Andrzej Werbart, Reitske Meganck, Mattias Desmet
Pages: 156 - 176 - The patient’s change : understanding the complexity of the dynamics of change and its precursors in psychotherapy(2021)
Authors: Giulio de Felice, Melissa De Smet, Reitske Meganck, Guenter Schiepek, Guenter Karl Schiepek