Recently the problem of an excessive tourism became very noticeable in the capital of the Netherlands. Tourists focus only on the few key places that make Dutch culture, ignoring the rest of the country, leaving other cities and villages empty and creating traffic in Amsterdam (Schlagwein, 2019; Boffey, …

This systematic literature review describes what is known about the effectiveness of practices in probation supervision. Effectiveness is defined as: contributing to a reduction in recidivism, better functioning of clients in various areas, or prevention of non-compliance and drop-out. Based on a systematic …

Background: General practitioners experience a high workload during out-of-hours care. A possible solution is the shifting of care to nurse practitioners. Objectives: To provide insight into patient- and care characteristics, safety, efficiency, and patient satisfaction of substituting general practitioners …

Supervision meetings give teachers and students opportunities to interact with each other and to co-regulate students’ learning processes. Co-regulation refers to the transitional process of a student who is becoming a self-regulated learner by interacting with a more capable other such as a teacher. …

PURPOSE: In this study we aimed (1) to identify the most prevalent physical symptoms and functional limitations that limit physical activity of patients with palliative treatment for metastatic breast cancer (MBC) and (2) to identify their preferences for exercise-based physical therapy programs, as …

Many attempts have been made to build an artificial brain. This paper aims to contribute to the conceptualization of an artificial learning system that functionally resembles an organic brain in a number of important neuropsychological aspects. Probably the techniques (algorithms) required are already …

The body of evidence that the working alliance is associated with positive outcomes for mandated clients is growing. The aim of this research was to investigate the influence of several characteristics of probation officers (POs) and offenders on the course of the working alliance during probation supervision. …

Full text via link. In September 2015, a four year project on the working alliance with mandated clients started. The project was facilitated by a RAAK-PRO grant of the Dutch Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO) and carried out by researchers of the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. The project …

The Confederation of European Probation detects a clear need for a central record of training and qualification requirements, standards or curricula for probation and community supervision practitioners in EU Member States. Hogeschool Utrecht (UAS) has been commissioned to conduct a survey to collect …

Working on social services for justice clients. From a retrospective looking ahead to forensic welfare work On the occasion of thirty years of the journal Panopticon, we mainly focus in this article on the tension between emancipation and control in forensic welfare work in Flanders. We portray how …