Caroline Spaas

Biographic Data

ID348635
NAMECaroline Spaas
GIVEN NAMESCaroline
FAMILY NAMESpaas
SIGNATURESPAAS C
AFFILIATIONSKU Leuven
ORCID0000-0003-4468-6537
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS21
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • The role of school-based creative expression interventions in the aftermath of migration

    Open AccessSofie De Smet, Caroline Spaas et al.ARTICLEJournal of School Psychology2024

  • The effect of teacher multicultural attitudes on self-efficacy and wellbeing at work

    Open AccessSanni Aalto, Reeta Kankaanpää et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology of Education2024Cited by: 1References: 15

    Teachers are pivotal in creating safe and efficacious learning environments for ethnic minority students. Research suggests that teachers’ multicultural attitudes, self-efficacy, and wellbeing at work may all play important roles in this endeavor. Using survey data on 433 teachers in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, the present study used structural equation models to analyze the paths between teachers’ multicult…

  • Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education

    Open AccessCaroline SpaasARTICLEJournal of Refugee Studies2024References: 1

    Journal Article Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education: Ruptures, Passages, and Re-Orientations. S.S. Singh, O. Jovanovic, and M. Proyer Get access Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education: Ruptures, Passages, and Re-Orientations. S.S. Singh, O. Jovanovic, and M. Proyer Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2023. Caroline Spaas Caroline Spaas Parenting and Special Education Research Unit, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leu…

  • Reflections on arts-based research methods in refugee mental health

    Open AccessSofie De Smet, Caroline Spaas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Refugee Studies2024References: 11

    In the field of refugee mental health research, scholars have emphasized the ethical obligation for research practices to benefit participants. They have proposed that research participation itself can promote positive coping in the aftermath of migration. In this article, we aim to advance the understanding of the benefits of arts-based research methods (ABRM) in how they may nurture participants’ positive coping during their experiences as rese…

  • Understanding how classroom drama workshops can facilitate social capital for newly arrived migrant and refugee adolescents

    Open AccessFinja Dähne, Signe Smith Jervelund et al.ARTICLETranscultural Psychiatric…2024Cited by: 2References: 45

    Art-based interventions, such as classroom drama workshops (CDWs), increasingly form part of a collection of mental health-promoting activities introduced in school settings. While research points to the potential benefits of CDWs for the mental well-being of refugee and migrant adolescents, the mechanisms to such improvement are less understood. In this article we respond to the need for qualitative evidence of how CDW interventions affect refug…

  • School-based Psychosocial Interventions’ Effectiveness in Strengthening Refugee and Migrant Adolescents’ Mental Health, Resilience, and Social Relations

    Open AccessCaroline Spaas, Sameh Said‐metwaly et al.ARTICLEPsychosocial Intervention2023

    School-based psychosocial interventions are increasingly put forward as a way to support young refugees' and migrants' well-being and mental health in resettlement. However, the evidence on these interventions' effectiveness remains scarce and scholars denounce particular gaps in the evidence to date, pointing to a lack of large-scale, controlled studies and studies including social outcome measures. This cluster randomized study aims to strength…

  • Migrant Students’ Sense of Belonging and the Covid‐19 Pandemic

    Open AccessNikolett Szelei, Ines Devlieger et al.ARTICLESocial Inclusion2022Cited by: 2References: 14

    This article investigates school belonging among migrant students and how this changed during the Covid‐19 pandemic. Drawing on quantitative data gathered from 751 migrant students in secondary schools in six European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK), we examined the impact of Covid‐19 school closures, social support, and post‐traumatic stress symptoms on changes in school belonging. Linear regression showed a non…

  • Mental Health of Refugee and Non-refugee Migrant Young People in European Secondary Education

    Open AccessCaroline Spaas, An Verelst et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2022Cited by: 8References: 78

  • The effect of a school-based creative expression program on immigrant and refugee children’s mental health and classroom social relationships

    R Kevers, Caroline Spaas et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry2022

    97). This effect was moderated by children's refugee background, indicating a differential effect in which refugee children show more reduction of trauma symptoms as compared to nonrefugee immigrant children. The intervention supported classroom climate and alleviated posttraumatic stress in children with increased posttraumatic symptomatology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

  • A contextualized perspective on research participation in collaborative refugee research

    Sofie De Smet, C Rousseau et al.ARTICLECultural Diversity & Ethnic…2021Cited by: 8References: 7

    Objective: An increasing body of literature emphasizes the role of refugees' social context, with social conditions both at home and in the host society having an impact on the possibility of power redistribution and the mobilization of agency in collaborative research practices.Our aim is to develop a contextualized understanding of research participation for refugees in collaborative research in order to further enhance insights on the potentia…