Social workers focus on changes and improvements in people’s social functioning and the social quality of society. To do so, they intervene at different levels: individuals and households (micro), groups, neighbourhoods and communities (meso), and organisations and policies (macro). Opportunities for …

Background The work participation of young adults with chronic physical conditions lag behind compared to healthy age-mates. ‘At Work’ is a vocational rehabilitation intervention provided by occupational therapists, that supports them for entering the competitive labour market after graduating post-secondary …

Many refugees aspire to continue or start higher education studies in their host country. However, higher education is difficult to access for refugees due to various obstacles such as a lack of (reliable) information and admission criteria. If they manage to access higher education they experience specific …

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate age group, gender, and baseline depressive symptom severity as possible effect moderators in (1) cognitive versus behavioral based CBT-modules and (2) sequences of modules that started either with cognitive or behavioral modules in indicated depression …

Op steeds meer plekken in Nederland worden lerende praktijken opgericht. Drijvende krachten hierachter zijn overheden, grote subsidieverstrekkers en de Nederlandse Topsectoren. Hoewel wordt onderkend dat een one-size-fits-all benadering voor lerende praktijken waarschijnlijk niet opgaat, lijkt er wel …

In 2015 werd in Nederland een aantal wetten ingevoerd (of gewijzigd), die samen grote invloed hebben gehad op de verantwoordelijkheid van de gemeenten voor die inwoners die op een of meer levensterreinen ondersteuning nodig hebben. In een brief van de toenmalige minister van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties, …

Aandacht voor diversiteit en kansengelijkheid van studenten staat hoog op de agenda’s van hogescholen en universiteiten. Zij geven ieder op hun eigen manier invulling aan inclusiebeleid, waarbij vaak speciale aandacht is voor eerstegeneratiestudenten: studenten die als eerste in hun gezin een opleiding …

Deteriorated functioning is a part of the clinical-high risk (CHR) criteria for psychosis. Diminished social, educational and occupational functioning in the phase of late adolescence and early adulthood are associated with long-term social, economic and health consequences, which stresses the importance …

BACKGROUND: To improve older patients' physical activity (PA) behavior, it is important to identify facilitators and barriers to enhancing PA in older patients (≥ 65 years) during hospitalization from the perspectives of patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals (HCPs). METHODS: In this systematic …

For environmental governance to be more effective and transformative, it needs to enhance the presence of experimental and innovative approaches for participation. This enhancement requires a transformation of environmental governance, as too often the (public) participation process is set up as a formal …