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I like you just the way you are: The role of parents, teachers, and peers for early adolescents’ psychosocial development KU Leuven

Karine Verschueren
School Psychology and Development in Context
All human beings share the need to belong and having this need met is essential for adaptive development. For early adolescents, relationships with parents, teachers, and peers are key to fulfill this need. It is crucial, however, to gain a greater understanding of different aspects of these relationships. More specifically, the first objective of this project is to examine the unique and joint effects of different social relationships on youth ...

Temperament and parenting as predictors of psychosocial development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome, and Cerebral Palsy. Ghent University

Sarah De Pauw
Department of Special Needs Education

This project addresses the predictive value of the temperament-parenting interplay, vitally crucial for all children, to explain the wide range of variability in both maladaptive and adaptive development of youngsters with special needs. Using a three-wave prospective cohort design, transdiagnostic generalizability of processes is tested in and across three neurodevelopmental disabilities (Autism, Down syndrome, Cerebral Palsy) relative to ...

On the Interplay among Psychosocial, Biological, and Medical Factors in Different Populations: Charting Developmental Interdependencies and Trajectories from Childhood through Emerging Adulthood KU Leuven

Koen Luyckx
School Psychology and Development in Context

The long-term purpose of the research program is to expand our understanding of the various processes linking psychosocial functioning to several physical and medical parameters from childhood through emerging adulthood in different community and clinical populations. Such a developmental focus on the interface between normative psychosocial issues and physical or medical outcomes is of critical importance in understanding why certain ...

Assessing and promoting newcomer children's psychosocial, linguistic, and cultural developmental outcome: A two-phased mixed-method interdisciplinary study KU Leuven

Lucia De Haene
Parenting and Special Education, Language, Education and Society, Leuven, Centre for Language and Education, Leuven
In newcomer children’s outcome, developmental tasks are complicated by multiple stressors, loss, and cultural change, implying at-risk functioning in psychosocial well-being, linguistic competence, and cultural belonging. Scholarly work shows a growing emphasis on a relational analysis of associations between developmental outcome in child psychosocial well-being, linguistic competence, and cultural identifications, including the role ...

Psychosocial well-being of informal and formal caregivers HOGENT

Deborah Lambotte
360° Zorg en Welzijn, HOGENT
The constant workload in the care and well-being sector is causing increasing psychological problems among formal caregivers. Informal caregivers also experience high psychosocial pressure. The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified these pressures. This research project aims to find concrete solutions to ensure and improve the psychosocial well-being of formal and informal caregivers. The care and well-being sector is facing serious challenges. One ...

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

Lucia De Haene
Parenting and Special Education, School Psychology and Development in Context
European host societies face the challenge of adequately supporting young refugees and migrants at-risk of developing mental health difficulties. Reflecting on what constitutes adequate support, scholars increasingly point to the potential of school-based psychosocial interventions. To date, however, empirical evidence on these interventions remains scarce. Rooted in my doctoral study’s findings, this research proposal seeks to contribute to the ...

Why do asymptomatic rotator cuff tears become painful? - Effect of biomechanical, psychosocial and pain related factors. Ghent University

Alexander Van Tongel
Department of Human Structure and Repair

Rotator cuff (RC) tears have high prevalence rates, affecting 40% of the population over 60 years to more than 62% of the people aged 80 or more. Although these tears are not necessarily symptomatic, one-third will become symptomatic over time, causing shoulder pain and disability with a large impact on social life and causing high societal cost. Therefore, it is important to gain insight in why an asymptomatic RC tear becomes symptomatic. ...

Identification of underlying muscular, physcial and psychosocial variables in chronic neck pain in order to develop an evidence-based rehabilitation programme Ghent University

Lieven Danneels
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapie

Firstly, differences in muscle morphometry and function between control and chronic neck pain patients will be evaluated by use of fMRI. Secondly, the influence of work place organisation and VDU on posture and muscle recruitment will be investigated. In the third place, questionnaires regarding psychosocial variables will be administered in order to identify risk factors in neck pain. Understanding of the pathophysiology of chronic neck pain ...

Neurolinguistic, sociodemographic and psychosocial determinants of narrative writing in mono- and bilingual adults Ghent University

Miet De Letter
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences

The city of Ghent consists of 161 different nationalities and (at least) 106 languages. This wealth of nationalities and languages is accompanied with a large sociodemographic and psychosocial diversity. Research has suggested a negative impact of socioeconomic status and/or isolation on language proficiency and on the development and activation of cerebral networks. On the other hand bilinguals have a cognitive advantage over monolinguals. ...