Freya Vander Laenen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6507045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Freya Vander Laenen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Freya Vander |
| FAMILY NAME | Laenen |
| SIGNATURE | LAENEN F V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2420-6751 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exploring the Good Lives Model Concepts among an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Forensic Clients: A Qualitative Study
The increasing ethnic diversity in Europe’s forensic population challenges culturally sensitive rehabilitation. The Good Lives Model, a strengths-based rehabilitation framework promoting well-being and desistance, provides a universal structure but shows potential for cultural adaptation. This study explores the emic dimensions of the GLM’s core concepts and assumptions—primary goods, secondary goods, strengths, and obstacles—among ethnically div…
Tailoring the continuum of care for substance use problems to persons with an Islamic migration background: A co-creative case study
We discuss the need for tailored interventions that are able to overcome structural inequities and address ethnocultural sensitivities, needs and strengths. Intermediary community organizations, cultural competence of treatment and recovery-oriented systems of care may bridge the gaps between what is needed and what is available. However, it is important to be conscious that hands-on solutions at the personal level do not absolve the responsibili…
Voices to be heard: Understanding family perspectives in forensic care trajectories
These findings tie in with procedural justice theory as a precondition for family support and family recovery within forensic psychiatric care
Turning points toward drug addiction recovery: Contextualizing underlying dynamics of change
Background A life course approach recognizes the role of turning points in adding twists and turns in individuals’ addiction recovery processes. The notion of certain key life events that trigger turning point experiences offers a valuable theoretical construct for understanding processes of change. The current study aimed to identify turning points and assess the role of contextual dynamics in generating long-term changes, based on lived experie…
Watch out for the boogieman”: Stigma and substance use recovery among migrants and ethnic minorities
People with a migration background and ethnic minorities (MEM) with substance use problems are confronted with stigma due to their ethnicity and substance use. This study explores how living with multiple stigmatized identities impacts substance use recovery among MEM. We conducted 34 in‐depth interviews with a diverse sample of MEM with substance use problems in Flanders, Belgium. A Qualitative Content Analysis using Earnshaw's stigma framework …
Recovery Capital among Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Recovery from Problem Substance Use: An Analysis of Lived Experiences
Migrants and ethnic minorities (MEM) are known to be disadvantaged concerning risk factors for problem substance use and resources to initiate and sustain recovery (i.e., recovery capital). Yet, the voices of MEM are largely overlooked in recovery literature. This study explores recovery capital through 34 semi-structured interviews with a diverse sample of MEM in recovery in two ethnically diverse cities in Belgium. A Qualitative Content Analysi…
Crushed by the Belgian system: Lived experiences of forensic care trajectories by persons labelled as not criminally responsible
Reflections on a Service User Perspective in Supporting Persons with Dual Diagnosis: The Case of Villa Voortman
The health-related social costs of alcohol in Belgium
Despite a number of limitations intrinsic to this kind of research, the study can be considered as the most comprehensive analysis thus far of the health-related social costs of alcohol in Belgium
Economic consequences of legal and illegal drugs: The case of social costs in Belgium
Future expectations of young people leaving youth care in F landers: The role of personal and social capital in coping with expected challenges
What do young people leaving youth care think about their future? How do they view their transition between youth care and adulthood? These questions were answered by 71 young people leaving youth care in F landers. The analysis of the interviews showed that three groups of young people can be distinguished when it comes to their expectations regarding the transition: those with positive future expectations that do not expect any difficulties dur…
How drug policy should (not) be: Institutionalised young people's perspectives
The influence of warning messages on the public's perception of substance use: A theoretical framework
Crossing geographical, legal and moral boundaries: The Belgian cigarette black market
Belgium is an important transit country for cigarette smuggling to the UK. This study pictures the illicit tobacco trade as a complex, ambiguous phenomenon involving several legal and illegal participants whereby the transit of cigarettes across the licit/illicit divide is paralleled by the moral careers of those who smuggle them, not to mention those who consume them. From the legal world to the illegal and back again, this trade and its practit…
Future expectations of young people leaving youth care in F landers: The role of personal and social capital in coping with expected challenges
What do young people leaving youth care think about their future? How do they view their transition between youth care and adulthood? These questions were answered by 71 young people leaving youth care in F landers. The analysis of the interviews showed that three groups of young people can be distinguished when it comes to their expectations regarding the transition: those with positive future expectations that do not expect any difficulties dur…
The influence of warning messages on the public's perception of substance use: A theoretical framework
Watch out for the boogieman”: Stigma and substance use recovery among migrants and ethnic minorities
People with a migration background and ethnic minorities (MEM) with substance use problems are confronted with stigma due to their ethnicity and substance use. This study explores how living with multiple stigmatized identities impacts substance use recovery among MEM. We conducted 34 in‐depth interviews with a diverse sample of MEM with substance use problems in Flanders, Belgium. A Qualitative Content Analysis using Earnshaw's stigma framework …
Crossing geographical, legal and moral boundaries: The Belgian cigarette black market
Belgium is an important transit country for cigarette smuggling to the UK. This study pictures the illicit tobacco trade as a complex, ambiguous phenomenon involving several legal and illegal participants whereby the transit of cigarettes across the licit/illicit divide is paralleled by the moral careers of those who smuggle them, not to mention those who consume them. From the legal world to the illegal and back again, this trade and its practit…
The influence of warning messages on the public's perception of substance use: A theoretical framework
How drug policy should (not) be: Institutionalised young people's perspectives
Future expectations of young people leaving youth care in F landers: The role of personal and social capital in coping with expected challenges
What do young people leaving youth care think about their future? How do they view their transition between youth care and adulthood? These questions were answered by 71 young people leaving youth care in F landers. The analysis of the interviews showed that three groups of young people can be distinguished when it comes to their expectations regarding the transition: those with positive future expectations that do not expect any difficulties dur…
Reflections on a Service User Perspective in Supporting Persons with Dual Diagnosis: The Case of Villa Voortman
The health-related social costs of alcohol in Belgium
Despite a number of limitations intrinsic to this kind of research, the study can be considered as the most comprehensive analysis thus far of the health-related social costs of alcohol in Belgium
Economic consequences of legal and illegal drugs: The case of social costs in Belgium
Crushed by the Belgian system: Lived experiences of forensic care trajectories by persons labelled as not criminally responsible
Recovery Capital among Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Recovery from Problem Substance Use: An Analysis of Lived Experiences
Migrants and ethnic minorities (MEM) are known to be disadvantaged concerning risk factors for problem substance use and resources to initiate and sustain recovery (i.e., recovery capital). Yet, the voices of MEM are largely overlooked in recovery literature. This study explores recovery capital through 34 semi-structured interviews with a diverse sample of MEM in recovery in two ethnically diverse cities in Belgium. A Qualitative Content Analysi…
Voices to be heard: Understanding family perspectives in forensic care trajectories
These findings tie in with procedural justice theory as a precondition for family support and family recovery within forensic psychiatric care
Turning points toward drug addiction recovery: Contextualizing underlying dynamics of change
Background A life course approach recognizes the role of turning points in adding twists and turns in individuals’ addiction recovery processes. The notion of certain key life events that trigger turning point experiences offers a valuable theoretical construct for understanding processes of change. The current study aimed to identify turning points and assess the role of contextual dynamics in generating long-term changes, based on lived experie…
Watch out for the boogieman”: Stigma and substance use recovery among migrants and ethnic minorities
People with a migration background and ethnic minorities (MEM) with substance use problems are confronted with stigma due to their ethnicity and substance use. This study explores how living with multiple stigmatized identities impacts substance use recovery among MEM. We conducted 34 in‐depth interviews with a diverse sample of MEM with substance use problems in Flanders, Belgium. A Qualitative Content Analysis using Earnshaw's stigma framework …
Tailoring the continuum of care for substance use problems to persons with an Islamic migration background: A co-creative case study
We discuss the need for tailored interventions that are able to overcome structural inequities and address ethnocultural sensitivities, needs and strengths. Intermediary community organizations, cultural competence of treatment and recovery-oriented systems of care may bridge the gaps between what is needed and what is available. However, it is important to be conscious that hands-on solutions at the personal level do not absolve the responsibili…
Exploring the Good Lives Model Concepts among an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Forensic Clients: A Qualitative Study
The increasing ethnic diversity in Europe’s forensic population challenges culturally sensitive rehabilitation. The Good Lives Model, a strengths-based rehabilitation framework promoting well-being and desistance, provides a universal structure but shows potential for cultural adaptation. This study explores the emic dimensions of the GLM’s core concepts and assumptions—primary goods, secondary goods, strengths, and obstacles—among ethnically div…
Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Law (4 works)