Across all health care settings, certain patients are perceived as ‘difficult’ by clinicians. This paper’s aim is to understand how certain patients come to be perceived and labelled as ‘difficult’ patients in community mental health care, through mixed-methods research in The Netherlands between June …

Aims. The aim of this study is to gain insight into the level of emotional intelligence of mental health nurses in the Netherlands. Background. The focus in research on emotional intelligence to date has been on a variety of professionals. However, little is known about emotional intelligence in mental …

This research aims to investigate the usefulness of a connected leadership model for sport organizations. The following research questions were designed: 1) How can professional sport managers successfully make use of thedevelopments of new professionalism (Leijnse, Hulst & Vromans, 2006), the new way …

Purpose – The purposes of this paper are to 1) give an overview of the prevalence of HR practices that are used to retain vital older workers in health organizations, 2) to examine the evaluations of those HR practices, and 3) to determine the wishes for HR practices in three different target groups: …

Because dental health and oral pathology may affect forensic psychiatric patients' well being, it is important to be able to assess oral health related quality of life (OH-QoL) in these patients. Two studies were conducted among Dutch forensic psychiatric male patients to assess the psychometric properties …

Employees with a chronic disease often encounter problems at work because of their chronic disease. The current paper describes the development of a self-management programme based on the Chronic Disease Self-Management programme (CDSMP) of Stanford University to help employees with a chronic somatic …

Sinds 1995 is het aantal brede scholen (ook wel 'vensterscholen' genoemd) in snel tempo toegenomen. In een brede school werken professionals van verschillende instellingen (bv. basisscholen, peuterspeelzalen, SKSG kinderopvang, het CJG en de MJD) samen om de ontwikkelingskansen van jongeren van 0-15 …

Eén van de zeven pijlers van de Vensterschool is “binnen- en buitenschoolse activiteiten”. Daarin trachten Vensterschoolpartners een aanbod te bieden dat op elkaar is afgestemd en samenhang vertoont. Dit lijkt vaak (nog) niet het geval, wat o.a. te maken heeft met het feit dat het aanbod onvoldoende …

De werkgroep heeft een instrument ontwikkeld waarmee in de verschillende teams doelen, middelen, effectiviteit van middelen en wensen met betrekking tot ouderbetrokkenheid zijn geïnventariseerd. Hierbij is uitgegaan van de 4 vormen van ouderbetrokkenheid: informatievoorziening, ouderparticipatie, opvoedings-/onderwijsondersteunend …

In dit onderzoek is gekeken naar de ontwikkeling van het CJG in zeven gemeenten in Nederland. Dit is gebeurd aan de hand van documentanalyse en diepte-interviews met professionals die betrokken zijn bij de CJG ontwikkeling en uitvoering.