Projects
Self-other distinction after early trauma and maltreatment: a neurobehavioural investigation Ghent University
A recent (2014) enquête of Amnesty International reported that many Belgian women will experience some form of sexual abuse and maltreatment. The present project examines the underlying neurobiological socio-cognitive mechanisms possibly affected by such trauma using self-other distinction tasks and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We anticipate changes in self-other distinction, which bears implications for therapeutic ...
Unity is strength: towards an integrative, dynamic, and resource-based perspective on violence, sexual harassment, and bullying as forms of interpersonal mistreatment at work. KU Leuven
Research on the more severe forms of interpersonal mistreatment at work from the target’s perspective (IMW)—i.e., violence, sexual harassment, and bullying—has obvious voids: (a) these behaviors are studied in silos with minimal cross-fertilization, and (b) a predominantly stressor-based perspective on the antecedents behind these forms hampers advancement in intervention research. In reply, we (a) apply an integrative lens by simultaneously ...
Unity is strength: towards an integrative, dynamic, and resource-based perspective on violence, sexual harassment, and bullying as forms of interpersonal mistreatment at work. KU Leuven
Unity is strength: towards an integrative, dynamic, and resource-based perspective on violence, sexual harassment, and bullying as forms of interpersonal mistreatment at work. KU Leuven
Is mistreatment of women during facility-based childbirth an independent risk factor for postpartum depression? A mixed methods prospective study in Ethiopia and Guinea Institute of Tropical Medicine
postpartum mental disorder, mainly postpartum depression, which
can lead to self-harm, harm to the baby, compromised child health
and development, and suicide. As 48% of women in the region do not
receive postnatal care (81% in Ethiopia and 51% in Guinea),
postpartum depression remains undiagnosed and untreated.
Globally, despite a critical ...
The role of justice motives in bystander reactions to interpersonal mistreatment at work. KU Leuven
This project investigates the role of justice motives in bystander reactions to interpersonal mistreatment at work.
The role of national preventive mechanisms against torture and illtreatment in prisons in Europe. Ghent University
Experience shows that torture and ill-treatment usually occur when people are deprived of their liberty, although torture and ill-treatment are explicitly prohibited in (inter)national law. This led to the establishment of international monitoring bodies, which prevent ill-treatment through a system of visits and negotiations with relevant authorities. Their succes led to the adoption of the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention Against ...