Ausma Advocaten krijgt vaak te maken met cliënten aan wie medeplegen ten laste wordt gelegd. Het begrip medeplegen is wel opgenomen in de wet, namelijk in artikel 47 van het Wetboek van Strafrecht, maar is hierin niet nader toegelicht. De wetgever heeft de uitleg van het begrip medeplegen overgelaten …

Seksueel grensoverschrijdend gedrag ligt de laatste tijd onder een vergrootglas. In 2017 heeft maar liefst 44 procent van de meisjes en zeventien procent van de jongens seksuele handelingen tegen de wil ervaren (de Graaf et al., 2017). Scholen kunnen een belangrijke aanvulling zijn op de opvoeding van …

In this series on psychological foundations from an applied psychological perspective, we focus this time on shame, guilt and sin. Shame, guilt and sin share that all three are strong motivators for behavioural change. However, we can respond to them in very different ways. In this article it is argued …

BACKGROUND: Increasing evidence indicates the potential benefits of restricted fluid management in critically ill patients. Evidence lacks on the optimal fluid management strategy for invasively ventilated COVID-19 patients. We hypothesized that the cumulative fluid balance would affect the successful …

It is much easier to run our projects right (project management) than to do the right things, or ask the right questions (leadership). also for me and my research group. We proudly report that cobots are gaining ground and that this is understandable given the major staff shortages and the need for companies …

Historian Yuval Harari writes in his 21 Lessons for the 21st Century that due to increasing automation and robotization, large groups of people will probably become completely redundant in the labour market in the near future. He proposes a basic income as a solution. In this article it is argued that …

There is a difference between doing the right (or wrong) things and doing things right (or wrong). The first is often referred to with the term leadership. The term managing refers to doing things right (planning, organizing, etc.). Leadership and management concern two related but clearly distinguishable …

In this series on psychological foundations from an applied psychological perspective, we focus this time on shame, guilt and sin. Shame, guilt and sin share that all three are strong motivators for behavioural change. However, we can respond to them in very different ways. In this article it is argued …

Original sin is only a poor stimulator of behaviour change. It's easy to understand that it seems rather unfair to blame a new-born for the major problems that humanity faces after several centuries of technological progress. That also applies to all those natural peoples, who lived in harmony with their …

During the workshop we used a part of our so called 'positioneringsscan', with which members of a supervisiory board can evaluate their position and opinion on the relation with the 'onafhankelijke controlfunctie'. We discussed the outcomes and some cases.