Kristel Driessens
Biographic Data
| ID | 6187047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristel Driessens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristel |
| FAMILY NAME | Driessens |
| SIGNATURE | DRIESSENS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8345-5462 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Development of a toolkit to improve interprofessional collaboration and integration in primary care using qualitative interviews and co-design workshops
Background: Despite numerous attempts to improve interprofessional collaboration and integration (IPCI) in primary care, patients, care providers, researchers, and governments are still looking for tools and guidance to do this more efficiently. To address these issues, we decided to develop a generic toolkit, based on sociocracy and psychological safety principles, to guide care providers in their collaboration within and outside their practice.…
Connecting the dots
Introduction: There is an increasing need for interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in the community, in order to ensure personcentered care for those with a care need. In Belgium, the Flemish government committed to support this through the creation of Primary Care Zones (PCZ) and a pilot-program of Caring Neighbourhoods (CN). The PCZ's mission is to get the diverse group of primary care professionals at the community level to work together. CN’…
Taking the measure
For years, the professional field has been searching for methods that could be used to chart the effectiveness of social services. Social workers report that their current systems for registration and measurement do not provide an accurate reflection of their practice. The measurement of client empowerment might offer an alternative method that could improve the evaluation of social services. This method links the need for measuring instruments t…
Measuring Empowerment
Current registrations and measurements used in social services are criticized for not providing an accurate reflection of the social work practice. The Service User Psychological Empowerment Scale (SUPES) was developed with input from both service users and social workers in order to provide an alternative measure. The SUPES is a 28-item scale that can be used to measure the intrapersonal, interactional, and behavioral dimensions of psychological…
Social work research as a practice of transparency
Social work research is inherently normative and as such the assumptions about social problems in social work research should be open to scrutiny and contestation. But although researchers often face tussles and huge contradictions, they rarely articulate them. In this article, we report on a small research project in which a collective of social work researchers in Flanders (the Dutch speaking part of Belgium) tried to think critically through s…
Research with social workers to improve their social interventions
From the North to the South of Europe, embedded in local contexts, we can find interesting projects of cooperative knowledge production in social work settings. In this article we present case studies from research projects with social workers in Helsinki, Trento and Antwerp. We describe how the new paradigm of knowledge production (Mode 2) is implemented in this kind of social work research. We look for the specificity of the research process in…
Two birds of a feather? Collaboration in social work research in Europe
Social work research, what's in a name? Definitely, it is not as carefree as it might seem at first glance. Questions are being asked on how this research should be conducted and what kind of resea
Research with social workers to improve their social interventions
From the North to the South of Europe, embedded in local contexts, we can find interesting projects of cooperative knowledge production in social work settings. In this article we present case studies from research projects with social workers in Helsinki, Trento and Antwerp. We describe how the new paradigm of knowledge production (Mode 2) is implemented in this kind of social work research. We look for the specificity of the research process in…
Taking the measure
For years, the professional field has been searching for methods that could be used to chart the effectiveness of social services. Social workers report that their current systems for registration and measurement do not provide an accurate reflection of their practice. The measurement of client empowerment might offer an alternative method that could improve the evaluation of social services. This method links the need for measuring instruments t…
Social work research as a practice of transparency
Social work research is inherently normative and as such the assumptions about social problems in social work research should be open to scrutiny and contestation. But although researchers often face tussles and huge contradictions, they rarely articulate them. In this article, we report on a small research project in which a collective of social work researchers in Flanders (the Dutch speaking part of Belgium) tried to think critically through s…
Two birds of a feather? Collaboration in social work research in Europe
Social work research, what's in a name? Definitely, it is not as carefree as it might seem at first glance. Questions are being asked on how this research should be conducted and what kind of resea
Research with social workers to improve their social interventions
From the North to the South of Europe, embedded in local contexts, we can find interesting projects of cooperative knowledge production in social work settings. In this article we present case studies from research projects with social workers in Helsinki, Trento and Antwerp. We describe how the new paradigm of knowledge production (Mode 2) is implemented in this kind of social work research. We look for the specificity of the research process in…
Two birds of a feather? Collaboration in social work research in Europe
Social work research, what's in a name? Definitely, it is not as carefree as it might seem at first glance. Questions are being asked on how this research should be conducted and what kind of resea
Social work research as a practice of transparency
Social work research is inherently normative and as such the assumptions about social problems in social work research should be open to scrutiny and contestation. But although researchers often face tussles and huge contradictions, they rarely articulate them. In this article, we report on a small research project in which a collective of social work researchers in Flanders (the Dutch speaking part of Belgium) tried to think critically through s…
Taking the measure
For years, the professional field has been searching for methods that could be used to chart the effectiveness of social services. Social workers report that their current systems for registration and measurement do not provide an accurate reflection of their practice. The measurement of client empowerment might offer an alternative method that could improve the evaluation of social services. This method links the need for measuring instruments t…
Measuring Empowerment
Current registrations and measurements used in social services are criticized for not providing an accurate reflection of the social work practice. The Service User Psychological Empowerment Scale (SUPES) was developed with input from both service users and social workers in order to provide an alternative measure. The SUPES is a 28-item scale that can be used to measure the intrapersonal, interactional, and behavioral dimensions of psychological…
Development of a toolkit to improve interprofessional collaboration and integration in primary care using qualitative interviews and co-design workshops
Background: Despite numerous attempts to improve interprofessional collaboration and integration (IPCI) in primary care, patients, care providers, researchers, and governments are still looking for tools and guidance to do this more efficiently. To address these issues, we decided to develop a generic toolkit, based on sociocracy and psychological safety principles, to guide care providers in their collaboration within and outside their practice.…
Connecting the dots
Introduction: There is an increasing need for interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in the community, in order to ensure personcentered care for those with a care need. In Belgium, the Flemish government committed to support this through the creation of Primary Care Zones (PCZ) and a pilot-program of Caring Neighbourhoods (CN). The PCZ's mission is to get the diverse group of primary care professionals at the community level to work together. CN’…
Mental Health and Patient Involvement (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Work (5 works) · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Community Health and Development (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)