Gina Rossi

Biography

• Social Worker (1993)
• MSc in Clinical Psychology (1997)
• PhD in Psychological Sciences (2004)
• Master of Quantitative Analysis in the Social Sciences (2005)

Teaching

Faculty of Psychology & Educational Sciences

• Psychodiagnostiek volwassenen (Psychodiagnostics Adults)
• Persoonlijkheidspsychologie (Personality Psychology)
• Differentiële psychologie (Differential Psychology)

Faculty of Law & Criminology

• Inleiding tot de psychologie [Introduction to psychology]
• Psychologie [Psychology]

Research

Research Domains

• Personality disorders
• Personality assessment and treatment personality pathology in older adults
• Emotion and information processing in older adults
• Forensic psychology

Research Groups

• Promotor Research and Teaching Chair Clinical Psychology in Older Adults
• Expert Panel Older Adults (EPO)
• Psychopathology and Information Processing in Older Adults (PIPO)
• IRP Gerontopole Brussels: Centre of Expertise of Gerontology
• Chair Personality and Psychopathology research group (PEPS)

Test Translation and/or Validation :

• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2 and MMPI-3) and Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF)
• Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5)
• Level of Personality Functioning Scale Self Report (LPFS-SR)
• ICD-11 personality disorder questionnaires (PiCD, SASPD, BPS, PDS-ICD-11)
• Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI)
• Severity Indices of Personality Functioning (SIPP-118 & SIPP-SF)
• Personality Adjective List (PACL)
• Structured Interview for the Five Factor Model (SIFFM)
• Psychopathy Personality Inventory - Revised (PPI-R)
• Hetero-Anamnestische Persoonlijkheidsvragenlijst (HAP)
• Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory - III (MCMI-III) (ended 2010)

PhD Students

Running

• Louis De Page: "The outer boundaries of psychological defenses and their relation to personality". (2023-)
• Saskia Bollen : "Cognitive model of behavioural intervention (CoMBI) as a personalized treatment for patients with severe mental illness (SMI)". (2022-)
• Morag Facon: "Empirical Evaluation and Clinical Relevance of a Dimensional Model of Personality Disorders in Later Life" (2021-2025)
• Barbera E. van Reijswoud : "Incidentie, diagnostiek en behandeling van persoonlijkheidsstoornissen in de ambulante forensische psychiatrie".(2021 -)
• Xenia Brancart "Personality types and individual differences in information processing in older adults" (2020-2026)
• Mercedes De Weerdt: "The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 - Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF): A new decade of assessing psychopathology." (2010 - )
• Jan Winter: "A novel conceptualisation of sequence analysis in rape: Application of a proximity coefficient to the offender-victim interaction." (2007 - )

Completed

• Ellen Gielkens: "An eye for lifetime hidden appearances. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for posttraumatic stress disorder and comorbidity in older adults." (2018 -2023)
• Priska Steenhaut: "Personality factors and emotional information processing in older adults" (2014-2018)
• Arjen Videler: "Treatment of personality disorders in later life: Beyond therapeutic nihilism" (2013-2016)
• Inge Debast: "Towards a dimensional perspective on personality pathology in older adults" (2012-2016)
• Joke Van Den Broeck: "A trait-based perspective on the assessment of personality and personality pathology in older adults." (2009-2013)
• Leen Bastiaansen: "A taxonomic reconceptualisation of personality disorders: Personality traits and level of dysfunction." (2008-2012)

Publications

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