WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: The combination of coping with their mental health problems and caring for children makes parents vulnerable. Family-centred practice can help to maintain and strengthen important family relationships, and to identify and enhance the strengths of a parent with a mental …

Preschool children's vocabulary mainly develops verbal through interaction. Therefore, the technology-enhanced storytelling (TES) activity Jeffy's Journey is developed to support parent–child interaction and vocabulary in preschool children. TES entails shared verbal storytelling supported by a story …

Parenting and psychiatric rehabilitation: can parents with severe mental illness benefit from a new approach? With these results at hand we developed a new program and evaluated it . In this presentation we will reflect on the merits of this program but also share with you the insight gained from other …

The aims of the International conference and meeting of researchers into Families where a Parent has a Mental Illness (FaPMI) were: 1. Develop international research collaborations/partnerships in the area of FaPMI. 2. Develop teams of research collaborators focused around core FaPMI research topics …

BACKGROUND: Given the negative consequences of early alcohol use for health and social functioning, it is essential to detect children at risk of early drinking. The aim of this study is to determine predictors of early alcohol use that can easily be detected in Preventive Child Healthcare (PCH). METHODS: …

- Overall: Politicians need to be educated at least to a basic level in the range of communications options that are available for region branding, to prevent a default position of using for example television simply because that is what politicians are familiar with. - Trade missions: widely used though …

Sport is often considered as a promising instrument for reaching a wide array of policy objectives. Social inclusion is one of the goals frequently mentioned. Though one can argue about the feasibility of the many claims made, sport can only reasonably be expected to play a role if the targeted population …

This thesis focuses on the effectiveness of a family-centered approach (in Dutch “DMOprotocol”, further referred to as the family-centered approach), designed for monitoring and enhancing children’s social-emotional development in Preventive Child Healthcare (PCH). The effectiveness study took place …

With these results at hand we developed a new program and evaluated it . In this presentation we will reflect on the merits of this program but also share with you the insight gained from other studies that we did to in the context of the program. First a study on the prevalence to give us an indication …

Het matige tot onvoldoende niveau van samenwerking op de Rembrandtschool is de aanleiding geweest voor dit onderzoek. Een mogelijke oplossing hiervoor is een beleid om de verbinding tussen ouders en de school van hun kind te versterken. In dit onderzoek zijn de ontwerpcriteria en contouren beschreven …