Laura Batstra
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 760275 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laura Batstra |
| NOMBRES | Laura |
| APELLIDO | Batstra |
| FIRMA | BATSTRA L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1638-2520 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
It Is Because of Our Society, but Inside the Child
In response to the rising number of children in youth care in the Netherlands, the Dutch Youth Act calls for normalisation, de‐medicalisation and unburdening. The present study investigated the views of physicians and nurses working in youth healthcare on the concept of normalisation. We conducted qualitative research through semi‐structured interviews with 18 youth healthcare professionals. Thematic analysis revealed that the professionals had n…
Exploring concept creep
TikTok has quickly become a popular platform for youth to access and share mental health information. Videos discussing characteristics of diagnoses, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), receive significant engagement. However, concerns have been raised about the spread of misinformation and potential self-diagnosis among viewers of these videos. To assess the accuracy of the information shared, we conducted a content analysis…
Diagnosing the context is as important as diagnosing the individual
DSM-III did not completely ignore the importance of social factors in psychiatric evaluation. It introduced the multiaxial diagnostic system (continued through DSM-III-R in 1987 and DSM-IV in 1994) explicitly including an Axis IV to document psychosocial and environmental problems that affect diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment (15). However, in practice, clinicians tended to focus almost exclusively on Axis I and II disorders, marginalizing conte…
From Suffering to Disorders Conceptual Analysis of Reification in Psychiatry
Reification means treating an abstract construct as a concrete entity. It is theorized to have negative effects in psychiatry, particularly by critiques of the biomedical model. Yet, the process of such reification receives little attention, and lack of agreement on conceptual questions prevents its quantification. The current study aims to provide a conceptual analysis of reification in psychiatry that would allow its operationalization and meas…
From Suffering to Disorders
Reification means treating an abstract construct as a concrete entity. It is theorized to have negative effects in psychiatry, particularly by critiques of the biomedical model. Yet, the process of such reification receives little attention, and lack of agreement on conceptual questions prevents its quantification. The current study aims to provide a conceptual analysis of reification in psychiatry that would allow its operationalization and meas…
Does the Wide Reach of the "Trauma-informed" Model Exceed its Narrow Grasp
Compared to the biomedical model of mental suffering, the increasingly influential trauma model has received little critical attention. We examine the discursive practices justifying and promoting the trauma-informed care: a set of assumptions and clinical recommendations presented as universal and uncontested guidelines for mental health practitioners. Critical review of two major guidelines for trauma-informed care - the SAMHSA's Concept of Tra…
ADHD and reification
It is essential that discourse communities do not repeat these four ways of reifying behavior and social relations into an alleged entity with the acronym ADHD. The errors and habits of writing may be epistemologically violent by influencing how laypeople and professionals see children and ultimately how children may come to see themselves in a negative way. Beyond that, if the institutional world shaped to help children is based on misguided ass…
Sick or Sad? A Qualitative Study on How Dutch GPs Deal With Sadness Complaints Among Young Adults
Feelings of sadness among young adults related to a certain phase of life or to societal factors run the risk of being interpreted as an individual medical problem. Therefore, healthcare professionals should more often widen their perspective and consider de-medicalization as being part of their professional responsibility too. This article presents results from a qualitative interview conducted with 13 GPs in different phases of their career to …
Teachers With Special Needs. De-Psychiatrization of Children in Schools
Psychiatrization not only affects adults. Ever more children in Western countries are being diagnosed with a mental disorder of behavior, such as ADHD. Children may often be labelled with the best intentions, for example in order to be able to provide them with suitable care and guidance. However, this labelling can have exclusionary effects and often entails the consequence that important discussion about contextual factors that give rise to (th…
ADHD and Brain Anatomy
Studies of brain size of children classified with ADHD appear to reveal smaller brains when compared to ‘normal’ children. Yet, what does this mean? Even with the use of rigorously screened case and control groups, these studies show only small, average group differences between children with and without an ADHD classification. However, academic textbooks used in the Netherlands often portray individual children with an ADHD classification as hav…
Balancing between caregiving and professionalism—Women's narratives on fostering a victim of maternal sexual abuse
The impact of sexual abuse on children is enormous, particularly when a child is abused sexually by a mother figure. In order to gain insight into the experiences of this rarely studied group, the life stories of four foster mothers of victims of maternal sexual abuse were collected. The narratives were coded inductively, and several topics concerning foster motherhood were studied more in‐depth. Four key themes emerged in the women's narratives:…
Can breast feeding modify the adverse effects of smoking during pregnancy on the child’s cognitive development
Harmful effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on cognitive development of the child have been shown,1 as have beneficial effects of breast feeding.2 We examined whether adverse effects of maternal smoking can be modified by breast feeding. The Perinatal Project Groningen (PPG) is a cohort of 3162 singleton infants born in the University Hospital Groningen in 1975–1978. Perinatally, detailed sociodemographic, obstetric, and neonatal data we…
Balancing between caregiving and professionalism—Women's narratives on fostering a victim of maternal sexual abuse
The impact of sexual abuse on children is enormous, particularly when a child is abused sexually by a mother figure. In order to gain insight into the experiences of this rarely studied group, the life stories of four foster mothers of victims of maternal sexual abuse were collected. The narratives were coded inductively, and several topics concerning foster motherhood were studied more in‐depth. Four key themes emerged in the women's narratives:…
Can breast feeding modify the adverse effects of smoking during pregnancy on the child’s cognitive development
Harmful effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on cognitive development of the child have been shown,1 as have beneficial effects of breast feeding.2 We examined whether adverse effects of maternal smoking can be modified by breast feeding. The Perinatal Project Groningen (PPG) is a cohort of 3162 singleton infants born in the University Hospital Groningen in 1975–1978. Perinatally, detailed sociodemographic, obstetric, and neonatal data we…
Can breast feeding modify the adverse effects of smoking during pregnancy on the child’s cognitive development
Harmful effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on cognitive development of the child have been shown,1 as have beneficial effects of breast feeding.2 We examined whether adverse effects of maternal smoking can be modified by breast feeding. The Perinatal Project Groningen (PPG) is a cohort of 3162 singleton infants born in the University Hospital Groningen in 1975–1978. Perinatally, detailed sociodemographic, obstetric, and neonatal data we…
Balancing between caregiving and professionalism—Women's narratives on fostering a victim of maternal sexual abuse
The impact of sexual abuse on children is enormous, particularly when a child is abused sexually by a mother figure. In order to gain insight into the experiences of this rarely studied group, the life stories of four foster mothers of victims of maternal sexual abuse were collected. The narratives were coded inductively, and several topics concerning foster motherhood were studied more in‐depth. Four key themes emerged in the women's narratives:…
ADHD and Brain Anatomy
Studies of brain size of children classified with ADHD appear to reveal smaller brains when compared to ‘normal’ children. Yet, what does this mean? Even with the use of rigorously screened case and control groups, these studies show only small, average group differences between children with and without an ADHD classification. However, academic textbooks used in the Netherlands often portray individual children with an ADHD classification as hav…
Teachers With Special Needs. De-Psychiatrization of Children in Schools
Psychiatrization not only affects adults. Ever more children in Western countries are being diagnosed with a mental disorder of behavior, such as ADHD. Children may often be labelled with the best intentions, for example in order to be able to provide them with suitable care and guidance. However, this labelling can have exclusionary effects and often entails the consequence that important discussion about contextual factors that give rise to (th…
ADHD and reification
It is essential that discourse communities do not repeat these four ways of reifying behavior and social relations into an alleged entity with the acronym ADHD. The errors and habits of writing may be epistemologically violent by influencing how laypeople and professionals see children and ultimately how children may come to see themselves in a negative way. Beyond that, if the institutional world shaped to help children is based on misguided ass…
Sick or Sad? A Qualitative Study on How Dutch GPs Deal With Sadness Complaints Among Young Adults
Feelings of sadness among young adults related to a certain phase of life or to societal factors run the risk of being interpreted as an individual medical problem. Therefore, healthcare professionals should more often widen their perspective and consider de-medicalization as being part of their professional responsibility too. This article presents results from a qualitative interview conducted with 13 GPs in different phases of their career to …
Exploring concept creep
TikTok has quickly become a popular platform for youth to access and share mental health information. Videos discussing characteristics of diagnoses, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), receive significant engagement. However, concerns have been raised about the spread of misinformation and potential self-diagnosis among viewers of these videos. To assess the accuracy of the information shared, we conducted a content analysis…
Diagnosing the context is as important as diagnosing the individual
DSM-III did not completely ignore the importance of social factors in psychiatric evaluation. It introduced the multiaxial diagnostic system (continued through DSM-III-R in 1987 and DSM-IV in 1994) explicitly including an Axis IV to document psychosocial and environmental problems that affect diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment (15). However, in practice, clinicians tended to focus almost exclusively on Axis I and II disorders, marginalizing conte…
From Suffering to Disorders Conceptual Analysis of Reification in Psychiatry
Reification means treating an abstract construct as a concrete entity. It is theorized to have negative effects in psychiatry, particularly by critiques of the biomedical model. Yet, the process of such reification receives little attention, and lack of agreement on conceptual questions prevents its quantification. The current study aims to provide a conceptual analysis of reification in psychiatry that would allow its operationalization and meas…
From Suffering to Disorders
Reification means treating an abstract construct as a concrete entity. It is theorized to have negative effects in psychiatry, particularly by critiques of the biomedical model. Yet, the process of such reification receives little attention, and lack of agreement on conceptual questions prevents its quantification. The current study aims to provide a conceptual analysis of reification in psychiatry that would allow its operationalization and meas…
Does the Wide Reach of the "Trauma-informed" Model Exceed its Narrow Grasp
Compared to the biomedical model of mental suffering, the increasingly influential trauma model has received little critical attention. We examine the discursive practices justifying and promoting the trauma-informed care: a set of assumptions and clinical recommendations presented as universal and uncontested guidelines for mental health practitioners. Critical review of two major guidelines for trauma-informed care - the SAMHSA's Concept of Tra…
It Is Because of Our Society, but Inside the Child
In response to the rising number of children in youth care in the Netherlands, the Dutch Youth Act calls for normalisation, de‐medicalisation and unburdening. The present study investigated the views of physicians and nurses working in youth healthcare on the concept of normalisation. We conducted qualitative research through semi‐structured interviews with 18 youth healthcare professionals. Thematic analysis revealed that the professionals had n…
Psychology (8 obras) · Psychiatry (6 obras) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (5 obras) · Developmental psychology (4 obras) · Medicine (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras) · Child and Adolescent Health (3 obras) · Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (2 obras)