Biography
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
- Basisvaardigheden Interview & Observatie [Basic Skills in Interview & Observation] (tot 2011)
- Persoonlijkheidspsychologie I [Personality Psychology I]
- Persoonlijkheidspsychologie II [Personality Psychology II]
- Capita Selecta uit de Persoonlijkheidspsychologie [Capita Selecta Personality Psychology]
- Persoonlijkheidsmeting (Personality Assessment)
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 Reserach and Teaching Chair Clinical Psychology in Older Adults
- Expert Panel Older Adults (EPO)
- Psychopathalogy 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 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)
- 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
- Ellen Gielkens: "Feasibility of Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) in older adults with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder compared to adults and impact of comorbid Personality Disorders and Cognitive Functioning" (2018 - )
- Xenia Brancart "Personality types and individual differences in information processing in older adults" (2020-2026)
- Marjolein Legra: "Diagnostics of personality disorders in the elderly from different theoretical perspectives? Can they be integrated?" (2013-2017)
- 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
- 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)