Paul Kocken
Biographic Data
| ID | 4415408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Kocken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Kocken |
| SIGNATURE | KOCKEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7901-5800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Navigating Stigma and Support
‘They Are Not Mental?!’ (TANM) is a peer educational intervention aimed at supporting migrant informal caregivers of people with mental illness. In the short term, the intervention focuses on promoting openness about mental health, increasing understanding of mental illness and caregiver support, and fostering trust with the healthcare sector. This study examined whether stakeholders perceived changes in these short-term outcomes and which interv…
Navigating the neighbourhood
Families living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods are disproportionately exposed to unhealthy food outlets. Yet less is known about how families perceive and navigate these local food environments in everyday life. Parents play a key intermediary role in translating neighbourhood food environments into family food purchasing decisions. As such, this qualitative study explored how parents of children aged 8 to 10 years perceive and…
Exploring peer education for migrant informal caregivers of mentally ill loved ones
Introduction: Informal caregivers with a migration background who care for someone with a mental illness often experience elevated caregiver burdens due to factors such as discrimination, language barriers, and stigma. In The Netherlands, a peer education intervention called 'They Are not Mental?!' (TANM) addresses these challenges by reducing stigma, increasing help-seeking behaviors, and improving access to healthcare. This transdisciplinary st…
Factors affecting interorganizational learning networks in youth care services
Parents’ perspectives on adolescent social emotional learning
Purpose Worldwide, schools implement social-emotional learning programs to enhance students' social-emotional skills. Although parents play an essential role in teaching these skills, knowledge about their perspectives on social-emotional learning is limited. In providing insight into the perspectives of parents from adolescent students this paper adds to this knowledge. Design/methodology/approach An explorative qualitative study was conducted t…
Low-achieving adolescent students' perspectives on their interactions with classmates. An exploratory study to inform the implementation of a social emotional learning program in prevocational educati…
Social and Emotional Learning programs, designed to enhance adolescents’ social and emotional skills, are implemented in schools worldwide. To strengthen SEL programs and adapt them to adolescents’ needs, we explored their perspectives on their own social-emotional development, focusing on low-achieving students in prevocational education. We interviewed eleven boys and eleven girls in five focus groups on (1) their general school life experience…
What are the most essential social-emotional skills
Introduction Universal school-based social-emotional learning (SEL) programs target several social-emotional skills assuming a relationship between the skills and psychosocial health outcomes. However, greater insight into the relationship is required to clarify the skills that are most crucial to address. It will support the development and refinement of SEL programs. This study investigated (1) the relationship among the social-emotional skills…
Parents' expected barriers to psychosocial care for children with complex problems
Background and objective Even though children with complex problems frequently need psychosocial care, two thirds does not receive treatment. Various barriers, particularly expectations of barriers, can hinder effective access of care. Our aim was to assess the practical barriers expected by parents, and the child, family and need factors associated with these expected barriers. Methods We sent web‐based questionnaires to parents of a random samp…
Effects of an SEL Program in a Diverse Population of Low Achieving Secondary Education Students
Adolescents’ social-emotional skills are associated with positive outcomes in psychosocial health and success in education and work. In this study, we examined the effectiveness of Skills4Life, a Social Emotional Learning program for preparatory vocational secondary education aimed at enhancing self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, relationship skills, and responsible decision making. Low-achieving students with additional educationa…
Exploring the intersectionality of family SES and gender with psychosocial, behavioural and environmental correlates of physical activity in Dutch adolescents
This study identified several psychosocial, behavioural and environmental factors that can be targeted to potentially increase adolescent's PA. We also found that correlates of PA differed according to the intersection of gender and family SES. Our findings suggest that PA interventions should be tailored according to gender and SES to address the specific needs, barriers and facilitators of different subgroups
Preventing adolescent sexual harassment
We recommend that parents should also be involved in the development of sex and relationship education programs, and should be allowed to participate in the program itself. To meet the needs of intervention developers, greater insight is needed into the importance of the individual steps in the Intervention Mapping framework. In our view, the development of practice-based interventions will improve if future intervention developers combine eviden…
Integrated school health services in Europe
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Services use by children and parents in multiproblem families
Effects of an Interactive School-Based Program for Preventing Adolescent Sexual Harassment
Many adolescents experience sexual harassment and victims of sexual harassment have higher risks regarding well-being and health behaviors such as higher risks of suicidal thoughts, suicidal ideation and feeling unsafe at school. A peer-performed play and school lessons on preventing sexual harassment behavior were presented to secondary school students. We evaluated its effectiveness, using a cluster-randomized controlled design to assign school…
Effects of transfer-oriented curriculum on multiple behaviors in the Netherlands
Many school health promotion curricula address a single health behavior, without paying attention to potential learning effects in associated behavioral domains. We developed an innovative curriculum about smoking and safe sex that also focused on promoting students' transfer of knowledge, skills and attitudes to other domains. In a quasi-experimental study involving 1107 students (Grades 7 and 8) in the Netherlands, the curriculum was compared w…
Students’ beliefs and behaviour regarding low-calorie beverages, sweets or snacks
Objective To study the effects of school lessons about healthy food on adolescents’ self-reported beliefs and behaviour regarding the purchase and consumption of soft drinks, water and extra foods, including sweets and snacks. The lessons were combined with the introduction of lower-calorie foods, food labelling and price reductions in school vending machines. Design A cluster-randomized controlled design was used to allocate schools to an experi…
Ethnicity, educational level and attitudes contribute to parental intentions about genetic testing for child obesity
Ethnic differences and parental beliefs are important for overweight prevention and management in children
As the overweight related preventive behaviours of both children and parents did differ between the native and ethnic minority populations of this study, it is advised that interventions pay attention to cultural aspects of the targeted population. Further research is recommended into parental behavioural cognitions regarding overweight prevention and management for different ethnicities
Effects of an Interactive School-Based Program for Preventing Adolescent Sexual Harassment
Many adolescents experience sexual harassment and victims of sexual harassment have higher risks regarding well-being and health behaviors such as higher risks of suicidal thoughts, suicidal ideation and feeling unsafe at school. A peer-performed play and school lessons on preventing sexual harassment behavior were presented to secondary school students. We evaluated its effectiveness, using a cluster-randomized controlled design to assign school…
Services use by children and parents in multiproblem families
Ethnic differences and parental beliefs are important for overweight prevention and management in children
As the overweight related preventive behaviours of both children and parents did differ between the native and ethnic minority populations of this study, it is advised that interventions pay attention to cultural aspects of the targeted population. Further research is recommended into parental behavioural cognitions regarding overweight prevention and management for different ethnicities
Ethnicity, educational level and attitudes contribute to parental intentions about genetic testing for child obesity
Effects of transfer-oriented curriculum on multiple behaviors in the Netherlands
Many school health promotion curricula address a single health behavior, without paying attention to potential learning effects in associated behavioral domains. We developed an innovative curriculum about smoking and safe sex that also focused on promoting students' transfer of knowledge, skills and attitudes to other domains. In a quasi-experimental study involving 1107 students (Grades 7 and 8) in the Netherlands, the curriculum was compared w…
Students’ beliefs and behaviour regarding low-calorie beverages, sweets or snacks
Objective To study the effects of school lessons about healthy food on adolescents’ self-reported beliefs and behaviour regarding the purchase and consumption of soft drinks, water and extra foods, including sweets and snacks. The lessons were combined with the introduction of lower-calorie foods, food labelling and price reductions in school vending machines. Design A cluster-randomized controlled design was used to allocate schools to an experi…
Effects of an Interactive School-Based Program for Preventing Adolescent Sexual Harassment
Many adolescents experience sexual harassment and victims of sexual harassment have higher risks regarding well-being and health behaviors such as higher risks of suicidal thoughts, suicidal ideation and feeling unsafe at school. A peer-performed play and school lessons on preventing sexual harassment behavior were presented to secondary school students. We evaluated its effectiveness, using a cluster-randomized controlled design to assign school…
Integrated school health services in Europe
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Services use by children and parents in multiproblem families
Preventing adolescent sexual harassment
We recommend that parents should also be involved in the development of sex and relationship education programs, and should be allowed to participate in the program itself. To meet the needs of intervention developers, greater insight is needed into the importance of the individual steps in the Intervention Mapping framework. In our view, the development of practice-based interventions will improve if future intervention developers combine eviden…
Effects of an SEL Program in a Diverse Population of Low Achieving Secondary Education Students
Adolescents’ social-emotional skills are associated with positive outcomes in psychosocial health and success in education and work. In this study, we examined the effectiveness of Skills4Life, a Social Emotional Learning program for preparatory vocational secondary education aimed at enhancing self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, relationship skills, and responsible decision making. Low-achieving students with additional educationa…
Exploring the intersectionality of family SES and gender with psychosocial, behavioural and environmental correlates of physical activity in Dutch adolescents
This study identified several psychosocial, behavioural and environmental factors that can be targeted to potentially increase adolescent's PA. We also found that correlates of PA differed according to the intersection of gender and family SES. Our findings suggest that PA interventions should be tailored according to gender and SES to address the specific needs, barriers and facilitators of different subgroups
What are the most essential social-emotional skills
Introduction Universal school-based social-emotional learning (SEL) programs target several social-emotional skills assuming a relationship between the skills and psychosocial health outcomes. However, greater insight into the relationship is required to clarify the skills that are most crucial to address. It will support the development and refinement of SEL programs. This study investigated (1) the relationship among the social-emotional skills…
Parents' expected barriers to psychosocial care for children with complex problems
Background and objective Even though children with complex problems frequently need psychosocial care, two thirds does not receive treatment. Various barriers, particularly expectations of barriers, can hinder effective access of care. Our aim was to assess the practical barriers expected by parents, and the child, family and need factors associated with these expected barriers. Methods We sent web‐based questionnaires to parents of a random samp…
Parents’ perspectives on adolescent social emotional learning
Purpose Worldwide, schools implement social-emotional learning programs to enhance students' social-emotional skills. Although parents play an essential role in teaching these skills, knowledge about their perspectives on social-emotional learning is limited. In providing insight into the perspectives of parents from adolescent students this paper adds to this knowledge. Design/methodology/approach An explorative qualitative study was conducted t…
Low-achieving adolescent students' perspectives on their interactions with classmates. An exploratory study to inform the implementation of a social emotional learning program in prevocational educati…
Social and Emotional Learning programs, designed to enhance adolescents’ social and emotional skills, are implemented in schools worldwide. To strengthen SEL programs and adapt them to adolescents’ needs, we explored their perspectives on their own social-emotional development, focusing on low-achieving students in prevocational education. We interviewed eleven boys and eleven girls in five focus groups on (1) their general school life experience…
Exploring peer education for migrant informal caregivers of mentally ill loved ones
Introduction: Informal caregivers with a migration background who care for someone with a mental illness often experience elevated caregiver burdens due to factors such as discrimination, language barriers, and stigma. In The Netherlands, a peer education intervention called 'They Are not Mental?!' (TANM) addresses these challenges by reducing stigma, increasing help-seeking behaviors, and improving access to healthcare. This transdisciplinary st…
Factors affecting interorganizational learning networks in youth care services
Navigating Stigma and Support
‘They Are Not Mental?!’ (TANM) is a peer educational intervention aimed at supporting migrant informal caregivers of people with mental illness. In the short term, the intervention focuses on promoting openness about mental health, increasing understanding of mental illness and caregiver support, and fostering trust with the healthcare sector. This study examined whether stakeholders perceived changes in these short-term outcomes and which interv…
Navigating the neighbourhood
Families living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods are disproportionately exposed to unhealthy food outlets. Yet less is known about how families perceive and navigate these local food environments in everyday life. Parents play a key intermediary role in translating neighbourhood food environments into family food purchasing decisions. As such, this qualitative study explored how parents of children aged 8 to 10 years perceive and…
Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Psychological intervention (6 works) · Psychosocial (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)