Purpose We assessed the association between trajectories of stressful life events (SLEs) throughout adolescence and changes in mental health from childhood to young adulthood. Further, we assessed whether family functioning moderated this association. Methods Data of the first six waves of the TRAILS …

Background : The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is widely used to screen for psychosocial problems among adolescents. As the severity of such problems is known to be related to age and gender, screening could be improved by interpreting SDQ scale scores with age-specific and perhaps gender-specific …

Background Variations in communicative participation of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) cannot be wholly explained by their language difficulties alone and may be influenced by contextual factors. Contextual factors may support or hinder communicative participation in children, which …

Background Following an ecological framework, the aim of this study was to highlight the way adolescents invested their time in opportunities to engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) according to whether they were profiled as more or less active. This study’s innovation lies in the …

Interview: Richard Vijverberg promoveerde op 31 januari 2022 aan de Vrije Universiteit op zijn proefschrift Care needs of children and adolescents in psychiatry. Steps towards personalized mental healthcare.

Uit onderzoek blijkt dat ouderbetrokkenheid binnen de residentiële zorg tot positieve resultaten leidt. Jongeren die de jeugdzorg hebben verlaten geven aan dat zij steunfiguren missen, waaronder hun biologische ouders. Er is weinig onderzoek gedaan naar de ervaringen en behoeften van jongeren van 16 …

Er zijn in de huidige maatschappij nog steeds veel misvattingen over hoogbegaafdheid. Er is vaak een verkeerd beeld rondom hoogbegaafdheid waarbij wordt verwacht dat vanwege de hoge intelligentie hoogbegaafden ‘het gaan maken’ in het leven (Corten, 2019; Kieboom, 2015). Dit is een verkeerd beeld omdat …

Abstract Background: Children and adolescents in mental healthcare often perceive their care needs and necessary treatment differently from their clinicians. As such discordance between young patients and clinicians may obstruct treatment adherence and compromise treatment outcomes, it is important to …

Proefschrift Richard Vijverberg

Background Variations in communicative participation of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) cannot be wholly explained by their language difficulties alone and may be influenced by contextual factors. Contextual factors may support or hinder communicative participation in children, which …