Projects
Moving towards Resilience: Joint creation through music and movement for local, refugee and immigrant children AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Towards integrated Practices of Schools, Reception Centres and Leisure Time Facilities for Refugee Children: an Action Research Karel De Grote Hogeschool
Towards integrated Practices of Schools, Reception Centres and Leisure Time Facilities for Refugee Children: an Action Research. University of Antwerp
Supporting refugee and migrant children’s mental health through fostering family-school interactions in school-based psychosocial intervention: Towards a grounded theory model on school-based collaborative mental health care KU Leuven
Remembering trauma in between disclosure and silencing: A multiple case study with Kurdish refugee families in Belgium KU Leuven
Research on the psychosocial sequelae of collective violence and forced displacement increasingly investigates the potentially harmful impact of these disruptive life experiences on relational dynamics within refugee families. Meanwhile, studies explore how intra-family processes may constitute protective sources in reversing the adverse impact of traumatization and reconstructing life in exile. In this regard, trauma communication has been ...
Parentification in refugee families? The (de)/(re) construction of parent-child relationships Odisee vzw
Influence of pre-,peri- en posttrauma factors on the development and course of PTSD in minor victims of extra-familial interpersonal trauma. Ghent University
The central purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of several pre-,peri- and posttrauma factors on the development and course of PTSD in minor victims of extra-familial interpersonal trauma. Therefore four studies will be carried out: a systematic literature review, a base-line measurement in unaccompanied refugee minors, a longitudinal research and an integration of the foregoing studies.