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Emotional Lability (EL) is a source of impairment in multiple mental disorders of children, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It has been proposed that the overlap between EL and ADHD symptoms is the result of common neuropsychological deficits. The aim of the present study was to test this hypothesis by using a multi-metho...
In 2017, the European Federation of Psychologists Associations made a statement on psychotherapy. It recognizes that psychotherapy is a “special competence” practiced by psychologists, and that psychologists practicing psychotherapy receive specific education, including supervision. The statement also stresses that they have demonstrated competenci...
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Multiple care organisations, such as home care services, nursing homes and hospitals, are responsible for providing an appropriate response to the palliative care needs of older people admitted into long-term care facilities. Integrated palliative care aims to provide seamless and continuous care. A possible organisational strategy to...
Introduction: Nursing home residents are a vulnerable and frail segment of the population, characterised by their complex and palliative care needs. To ensure an integrated approach to palliative care for this target group, working on a collaborative basis with multiple providers across organisational boundaries is necessary. Considering that coord...
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Emotional lability (EL) is an important trans‐diagnostic concept that is associated with significant functional impairment in childhood and adolescence. EL is typically measured with questionnaires, although little is known about the ecological validity of these ratings. In this paper, we undertook 2 studies addressing this issue by exam...
Several studies have shown that therapists are generally biased concerning their performed helping skills, as compared to judges' ratings. As clients' ratings of therapists' performance are better predictors of psychotherapy effectiveness than judges' ratings, this study examined the validity and effectiveness of a helping skills training program a...
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Managing type 1 diabetes (T1D) requires the ability to make complex and critical decisions regarding treatment, to execute complex tasks accurately, and to make adjustments when problems arise. This requires effective neuropsychological competences of patients and their families, especially in the domain of executive functioning (EF): t...
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Adolescent and young adult cancer (AYAC) survivors show an elevated risk of distress. Targeted psychosocial interventions for this distinct population are needed. This study examined the potential efficacy of a mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) to alleviate emotional distress and improve quality of life (QoL) in AYAC survivors.
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Chemotherapy has frequently been associated with neurocognitive sequelae in leukemia survivors, but evidence for childhood non-CNS tumors remains limited. We aimed to explore cognitive functioning of childhood solid non-CNS tumor survivors.
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Neurocognitive data were acquired for solid non-CNS tumor survivors (n=20) and age-matc...
A new parent-completed questionnaire, the Cognition and Motivation in Everyday Life (CAMEL) scale, was developed to provide a comprehensive assessment of neuropsychological impairment in children related to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) across diverse cognitive, motivational and energetic domains. Its psychometric properties were...
What determines the efficacy of psychotherapy ? A brief scientific update
Psychotherapy efficacy has interested researchers since the mid of the 20th century (Luborsky, Rosenthal, Diguer, Andrusyna, Berman, Levitt, Seligman, Krause, 2002). The current article’s aim was twofold : First, to give an overview of some of the most important and current c...
This study investigated, using a controlled experimental design, the impact of an encounter group on psychological development and helping skills among 2nd-year undergraduate psychology students. Students in the training condition participated in three weekly 4-hour sessions of classical Rogerian encounter group while students in the control condit...
Emotional competence (EC; also called "emotional intelligence"), which refers to individual differences in the identification, understanding, expression, regulation, and use of one's emotions and those of others, has been found to be an important predictor of individuals' adaptation to their environment. Higher EC is associated with greater happine...
Clinical psychology and the practice of psychotherapy and counseling in Belgium : Bridging practice and research in order to have accessible, ethical, and effective mental health care services
In Belgium, as in other countries, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, and counselors greatly contribute to general health care. In a wide array of hea...
The chronic exposure to stress of living with less money than one needs affects people’s well-being.
Studies show that mental un-well-being is associated with socioeconomic inequalities and that poverty related stress is directly related to symptoms of anxiety and depression. We offered a mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) between September 2011...
In this article we give an overview of the literature on the long-term follow up of children suffering from a brain tumor. Due to an intensive treatment the majority of children survives but suffers from extensive neuropsychological sequelae. Our retrospective study encompasses the analysis of the impact of several risk factors on the IQ scores of...
IntroductionResearch on depression in children (Vrielynck, Deplus & Philippot, 2007) has documented that an overgeneral memory in autobiographical recall constitutes a vulnerability factor for affective disorders. Until now, no valid and reliable instrument in French was available to measure this variable in school-age children.Objective
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This poster summarizes main results of Marie Housiaux's thesis research in the field of health psychology. This research was realized in collaboration with Professor Harry Dorchy and the Pediatric Diabetology Clinic of the University Children’s hospital Queen Fabiola (Belgium). The project investigated the bonds between emotional competences (EC) a...
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The present study examined the predictive value of emotional competence and the five-factor model of personality on the quality of life of children with asthma.
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Participants were 90 children (M age = 11.73, SD = 2.60) having controlled and partly controlled asthma, undergoing everyday treatment. Children filled in questionnaire...
Résumé Cet article propose un passage en revue de la littérature concernant trois modèles actuellement dominants dans les publications de langue anglaise quant à l’étiologie neuropsychologique du TDA/H : le modèle de déficit de fonctions exécutives (Barkley, 1997), le modèle d’aversion des délais (Sonuga-Barke, Taylor, Sembi & Smith, 1992) et le mo...
This article offers a review of the literature on three models currently dominant in the English-language publications on the neuropsychological etiology of ADHD: the model of executive function deficits (Barkley, 1997), the model of delay aversion (Sonuga-Barke et al., 1992) and the dual model (Sonuga-Barke, 2005). A focus on knowledge's advances...
Particularly important in ADHD treatments, several models try to explain reinforcement's impact on the base of motivational conception. However the multiplication of these models and overlap can make it difficult to understand specificities of each one. This article offers a review of the best known of these models between common design and specifi...
The main aim of the present study was to examine the cross-cultural equivalence of a newly developed questionnaire, the Emotion Awareness Questionnaire (EAQ30) that assesses emotional awareness of children through self-report. Participants were recruited in three countries: the Netherlands (N = 665), Spain (N = 464), and Belgium (N = 707), reflecti...
This study explored the mediating effect of coping strategies on the relationship between emotional competence (EC) and quality of life (QOL) among children with asthma. Participants were 87 children (M age = 11.72, SD = 2.58) with controlled and partially controlled asthma, undergoing everyday treatment. They filled in questionnaires assessing EC,...
The present study aimed to explore the psychosocial implications of asthma among Belgian French-speaking children. Ninety-nine parents of children having asthma (Mage=11.40, SD=2.35) and 102 parents of children without asthma (Mage=11.25, SD=.81) participated in the study. Parents filled in the Child Behaviour Checklist and a demographic questionna...
This study examined the respective contributions of the demographics, medical variables and alexithymia characteristics of young diabetics to their glycaemic control. The goal was to replicate the role of the 'difficulty describing feelings' factor of alexithymia in the prediction of poor glycaemic control as has been found in adult diabetic popula...
In this study, we investigated the psychometric properties of the French version of the Emotion Awareness Questionnaire (EAQ30; Rieffe et al., 2008). The EAQ30 was administered to 707 French-speaking children aged 8 to 16 years old. The original 6-factor structure was replicated in our data. The internal consistency coefficients of the EAQ30 subsca...
This study assessed the outcome of a brief rumination-focused cognitive and behavioral intervention in treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among Rwandan adolescent survivors of the 1994 genocide. All participants (54.5% female, N = 22) aged between 15 and 18 years (M = 16.55, SD = 0.96) met criteria for PTSD as assessed by the PT...
Previous studies have found that mindfulness training reduces overgeneral memories and increases autobiographical memory specificity (e.g., [Williams, J. M. G., Teasdale, J. D., Segal, Z. V., & Soulsby, J. (2000). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reduces overgeneral autobiographical memory in formerly depressed patients. Journal of Abnormal Psyc...
During the last 20 years, psychological interventions and psychotherapy have acquired a modest but significant place in health care. The lack of a uniform legal definition of these professional activities in the domain of health care hampers quality control of training programs and delivered services and complicates coordination of care. Training r...
Two behavioural and cognitive orientated psychologists and one psychoanalyst discuss about their different understandings of the concept of the "unconscious". In this dialogue "between schools" the differences in the approaches will be stressed, but also the theoretical levels where we can see convergences.
Résumé Malgré le nombre grandissant d’études consacrées au traumatisme dans l’enfance, l’applicabilité du concept d’état de stress post-traumatique (ESPT) à cette population est encore débattue aujourd’hui. Partant de ce constat, l’objectif de cet article est double. D’abord, sont présentés et discutés différents travaux critiquant la description d...
Als onderdeel van een enquête beschreven 577 therapeuten uit de vier hoofdoriëntaties een nog lopende therapie. De voornaamste bevindingen centreren zich rond volgende thema's: DSM-classificatie van de cliëntengroep, doelstellingen en therapeutinterventies. De resultaten tonen grote gelijkenissen tussen de verschillende richtingen wat betreft de do...
In this second article on our survey research an overview is presented 1. of the therapists’ perceptions of their actual working style with clients (concerning the following characteristics: involved, effective, detached, nurturant, demanding, wise, skillful, intuitive), and 2. of their views on different dimensions of the psychotherapeutic endeavo...
Résumé Dans le courant de l’année 2001-2002, 955 psychothérapeutes ont répondu, par courrier, à une enquête nationale sur le profil professionnel du psychothérapeute en Belgique. Cette enquête comprenait, entre autres, plusieurs questions concernant les orientations psychothérapeutiques et le thème de l’intégration des psychothérapies. Les analyses...
A large scale survey research has been carried out on Belgian psychotherapists, with 650 Dutch speaking and 300 French speaking respondents. Part 1 gives an overview of the following aspects: sociodemographic characteristics; professional background and psychotherapy training; work activities, work setting and interdisciplinary collaboration; thera...
This study assessed long-term psychosocial adjustment to pediatric liver transplantation in 146 patients aged 4-25 yr, who had received a transplant 2-12 yr previously. Evaluations of psychosocial adjustment and related variables were based on the Harter Self-Perception Profiles for children, Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), and children's academic...
Child and adolescent psychotherapy form a large proportion of the total amount of psychotherapeutic efforts. Because of the age of the patients, the positive or negative impact is considerable. From the literature we learn that the efforts made to evaluate psychotherapy effects are not in balance with the amount of executed therapies. Meta-analyses...
Neuropsychological assessment was carried out in 57 patients aged 3.0 to 17.5 years (mean 8.5) with thyroid dysgenesis under adequate long-term therapy. Starting age of hypothyroidism as estimated by bone age at diagnosis was prenatal in 32 cases, close to birth in 13 cases and postnatal of 1-12 months in 12 cases. Hypothyroidism of prenatal onset...
