Projects
Understanding and optimizing the preschool context in Flanders as a foundation for young children’s mental health. Ghent University
The quality of formal childcare has been cited as an important determinant of young children’s mental health, as it has been demonstrated that children’s self-regulation abilities – resulting from repeated cycles of co-regulation in caregiving – hold extreme importance for their mental health, now and later in life. Given the high uptake of formal childcare in Flanders and the high enrollment rates of the youngest children, childcare teachers ...
Perinatal Mental Health AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Elaboration of a Decretal and Implementation Decisions Mental Health KU Leuven
The Decree on Mental Health Care of 1999 is a limited decree in terms of design and is essentially restricted to the mental health centers. Mental health care in Flanders, however, covers more than just the mental health centers. It is a very diverse sector with many actors and subsectors, each with a specific yet often shared role.
In response to the Sixth State Reform, the government of Flanders is developing a new decree: a ...
Erasmus+ Key Action2 : GG : The Good Game project: Promoting mental health in esports Vrije Universiteit Brussel
of esports are also increasingly recognised. Nevertheless, preliminary evidence suggests esports participation can be highly stressful and
have a potential negative mental health impact. Such findings highlight the urgent need for novel mental health interventions tailored to
esports ...
Evaluation of oral health of people with mental disorders KU Leuven
This doctoral research aims to map the oral health of people with mental disorders in Flanders. This research will identify a subgroup of people with mental disorders who have a high prevalence of oral health problems. The need for oral health care will be evaluated, as well as the feasibility of oral health care promotion. We will also consider the impact that oral health preventive strategies can offer to this subgroup. A screening ...
NAture impact on MEntal health Distribution (NAMED). University of Antwerp
Youth in transition: mental health in a challenging period. KU Leuven
We wil investigate two key aspects of transition psychiatry. First, we will use different, but complementary, methodological approaches to study the social environment of young people in the transition phase who are at different levels of risk for psychiatric problems. Second; we will study the barriers and potential levers in Flanders for mental health service used by adolescents and young adults, and the implementation of an optimal ...
Student mental health and relationships with teachers and peers: Unravelling their interplay. KU Leuven
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the key role of social relationships for children’s and adolescents’ mental health. Hence, promoting positive relationships may be a low-threshold, yet crucial lever for the prevention of youth mental problems in the pandemic’s aftermath. This project focuses on social relationships at school. More specifically, it digs into the understudied interplay among different dimensions of teacher-student and peer ...