A J L M Van Balkom
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 105689 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A J L M Van Balkom |
| PRENOMES | A J L M |
| SOBRENOME | Van Balkom |
| ASSINATURA | VAN BALKOM A J L M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9171-0208 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The bidirectional relationship between severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms and lifestyle factors in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Previous studies on other psychiatric disorders have found that unhealthy lifestyle factors are associated with more severe psychiatric symptoms. It appears that OCD might differ in these aspects. In the present study, drug and alcohol use, higher BMI, and a composite score of unhealthy lifestyle factors were not associated with more severe OCD symptoms and did not predict greater symptom severity two years later. However, consistent with finding…
Does a lack of emotions make chatbots unfit to be psychotherapists
Mental health chatbots (MHCBs) designed to support individuals in coping with mental health issues are rapidly advancing. Currently, these MHCBs are predominantly used in commercial rather than clinical contexts, but this might change soon. The question is whether this use is ethically desirable. This paper addresses a critical yet understudied concern: assuming that MHCBs cannot have genuine emotions, how this assumption may affect psychotherapy…
Reducing suicides in mental healthcare
Institutions labeled as above average registered significantly more suicide attempts and also better adhered to the guideline compared with institutions that had performed less well. Although no convincing intervention effect on suicides was found within the study period, we do think that this network is potentially able to reduce suicides. Continuous investments and fully implementing as many guideline recommendations as possible are essential t…
Patient Perceptions of Illness Causes and Treatment Preferences for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Understanding and preventing nonadherence and treatment dropout in adolescents and young adults with anxiety and depressive disorders
Dropout from psychological or pharmacological treatment for anxiety and depressive disorders is common. It is especially problematic in adolescents and young adults because of the adverse consequences for their development. Reasons for treatment dropout can be divided into therapy-process related factors, attitudinal aspects, and practical issues. Adjusting treatment to patient preferences and shared decision making, improving the therapeutic all…
Changes in insight throughout the natural four-year course of obsessive-compulsive disorder and its association with OCD severity and quality of life
These findings suggest that patients' levels of insight may change during the natural four-year course of OCD and that improvement in the level of insight have a positive association with improvement in OCD severity
Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Outcome in Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
In the treatment of OCD, the strength of the therapeutic alliance contributes to outcomes, though to a limited extent. Effective OCD treatment involves the delivery of specific therapy interventions, in the context of a strong therapeutic alliance
Predictors of Intensive Treatment in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Background: Few studies have investigated which patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) do not recover through regular cognitive behavior therapy or pharmacotherapy and subsequently end up in intensive treatment like day treatment or inpatient treatment. Knowing the predictors of intensive treatment in these patients is significant because it could prevent intensive treatment. This study has identified predictors of intensive treatment …
Autonomy-Connectedness, Self-Construal, and Acculturation
The present study investigated the associations between self-construal, acculturation, and autonomy-connectedness, as well as the relations between autonomy-connectedness and psychopathological symptoms, controlling for self-construal and acculturation. Participants were 1,209 Dutch individuals, of whom 693 (57.3%) were immigrants with a non-Western background. Results showed that an independent self-construal was positively associated with self-…
Influence of religion on obsessive–compulsive disorder
Previous studies have suggested that specific features of religion such as religious denomination and level of religiosity might influence the severity of obsessive- compulsive disorder (OCD) and the occurrence of obsessive- compulsive (OC) cognitions, whereas others could not confirm these findings. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the relation between religion, OCD, and the occurrence of OC cognitions in a Dutch sample of OCD patients…
Outsourcing Mental Health Care Services? The Practice and Potential of Community-Based Farms in Psychiatric Rehabilitation
I felt so hurt and lonely
Young immigrant women in the Netherlands demonstrate disproportionate rates of suicidal behavior. This study investigated the origins of suicidal behavior in South Asian-Surinamese, Turkish, and Moroccan immigrant young women in order to identify ethnic- and gender-specific patterns of suicidal behavior. Based on life story interviews of women who had been enrolled in mental health care, we constructed five typical patterns in which social, cultu…
Comorbidity Patterns of Anxiety and Depressive Disorders in a Large Cohort Study
BACKGROUND: Comorbidity of depressive and anxiety disorders is common and has been shown to be a consistent predictor of chronicity. Comorbidity patterns among specific depressive and anxiety disorders have not been extensively reported. This study examines comorbidity patterns and temporal sequencing of separate depressive and anxiety disorders using data from a large psychiatric cohort. METHOD: Baseline data (N = 1,783) of the Netherlands Study…
Suicidal behaviour of young immigrant women in the Netherlands. Can we use Durkheim's concept of'fatalistic suicide' to explain their high incidence of attempted suicide
Young immigrant women of South Asian, Turkish and Moroccan origin in The Netherlands demonstrate disproportionate rates of non-fatal suicidal behavior. Suicidal behavior is usually explained from a psychological or medical tradition. However, we would like to emphasize sociological correlates, by examining the relevance of Durkheim's fatalistic suicide, characterized by overregulation. We conducted a retrospective analysis of 115 case files of yo…
Secondary gain by ethnic Turkish psychiatric patients living in a Dutch town
The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of expectation of secondary gain among first-generation immigrant Turkish patients referred to a psychiatric hospital and whether this prevalence differs from that of Dutch outpatients. The study was carried out in the outpatient department of a Dutch psychiatric hospital. Expectation of secondary gain was assessed by directly asking the patients, via questionnaires whether they hoped to gain …
Suicidal behaviour of young immigrant women in the Netherlands. Can we use Durkheim's concept of'fatalistic suicide' to explain their high incidence of attempted suicide
Young immigrant women of South Asian, Turkish and Moroccan origin in The Netherlands demonstrate disproportionate rates of non-fatal suicidal behavior. Suicidal behavior is usually explained from a psychological or medical tradition. However, we would like to emphasize sociological correlates, by examining the relevance of Durkheim's fatalistic suicide, characterized by overregulation. We conducted a retrospective analysis of 115 case files of yo…
I felt so hurt and lonely
Young immigrant women in the Netherlands demonstrate disproportionate rates of suicidal behavior. This study investigated the origins of suicidal behavior in South Asian-Surinamese, Turkish, and Moroccan immigrant young women in order to identify ethnic- and gender-specific patterns of suicidal behavior. Based on life story interviews of women who had been enrolled in mental health care, we constructed five typical patterns in which social, cultu…
Autonomy-Connectedness, Self-Construal, and Acculturation
The present study investigated the associations between self-construal, acculturation, and autonomy-connectedness, as well as the relations between autonomy-connectedness and psychopathological symptoms, controlling for self-construal and acculturation. Participants were 1,209 Dutch individuals, of whom 693 (57.3%) were immigrants with a non-Western background. Results showed that an independent self-construal was positively associated with self-…
Secondary gain by ethnic Turkish psychiatric patients living in a Dutch town
The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of expectation of secondary gain among first-generation immigrant Turkish patients referred to a psychiatric hospital and whether this prevalence differs from that of Dutch outpatients. The study was carried out in the outpatient department of a Dutch psychiatric hospital. Expectation of secondary gain was assessed by directly asking the patients, via questionnaires whether they hoped to gain …
Suicidal behaviour of young immigrant women in the Netherlands. Can we use Durkheim's concept of'fatalistic suicide' to explain their high incidence of attempted suicide
Young immigrant women of South Asian, Turkish and Moroccan origin in The Netherlands demonstrate disproportionate rates of non-fatal suicidal behavior. Suicidal behavior is usually explained from a psychological or medical tradition. However, we would like to emphasize sociological correlates, by examining the relevance of Durkheim's fatalistic suicide, characterized by overregulation. We conducted a retrospective analysis of 115 case files of yo…
Comorbidity Patterns of Anxiety and Depressive Disorders in a Large Cohort Study
BACKGROUND: Comorbidity of depressive and anxiety disorders is common and has been shown to be a consistent predictor of chronicity. Comorbidity patterns among specific depressive and anxiety disorders have not been extensively reported. This study examines comorbidity patterns and temporal sequencing of separate depressive and anxiety disorders using data from a large psychiatric cohort. METHOD: Baseline data (N = 1,783) of the Netherlands Study…
I felt so hurt and lonely
Young immigrant women in the Netherlands demonstrate disproportionate rates of suicidal behavior. This study investigated the origins of suicidal behavior in South Asian-Surinamese, Turkish, and Moroccan immigrant young women in order to identify ethnic- and gender-specific patterns of suicidal behavior. Based on life story interviews of women who had been enrolled in mental health care, we constructed five typical patterns in which social, cultu…
Outsourcing Mental Health Care Services? The Practice and Potential of Community-Based Farms in Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Influence of religion on obsessive–compulsive disorder
Previous studies have suggested that specific features of religion such as religious denomination and level of religiosity might influence the severity of obsessive- compulsive disorder (OCD) and the occurrence of obsessive- compulsive (OC) cognitions, whereas others could not confirm these findings. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the relation between religion, OCD, and the occurrence of OC cognitions in a Dutch sample of OCD patients…
Autonomy-Connectedness, Self-Construal, and Acculturation
The present study investigated the associations between self-construal, acculturation, and autonomy-connectedness, as well as the relations between autonomy-connectedness and psychopathological symptoms, controlling for self-construal and acculturation. Participants were 1,209 Dutch individuals, of whom 693 (57.3%) were immigrants with a non-Western background. Results showed that an independent self-construal was positively associated with self-…
Predictors of Intensive Treatment in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Background: Few studies have investigated which patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) do not recover through regular cognitive behavior therapy or pharmacotherapy and subsequently end up in intensive treatment like day treatment or inpatient treatment. Knowing the predictors of intensive treatment in these patients is significant because it could prevent intensive treatment. This study has identified predictors of intensive treatment …
Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Outcome in Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
In the treatment of OCD, the strength of the therapeutic alliance contributes to outcomes, though to a limited extent. Effective OCD treatment involves the delivery of specific therapy interventions, in the context of a strong therapeutic alliance
Understanding and preventing nonadherence and treatment dropout in adolescents and young adults with anxiety and depressive disorders
Dropout from psychological or pharmacological treatment for anxiety and depressive disorders is common. It is especially problematic in adolescents and young adults because of the adverse consequences for their development. Reasons for treatment dropout can be divided into therapy-process related factors, attitudinal aspects, and practical issues. Adjusting treatment to patient preferences and shared decision making, improving the therapeutic all…
Changes in insight throughout the natural four-year course of obsessive-compulsive disorder and its association with OCD severity and quality of life
These findings suggest that patients' levels of insight may change during the natural four-year course of OCD and that improvement in the level of insight have a positive association with improvement in OCD severity
Does a lack of emotions make chatbots unfit to be psychotherapists
Mental health chatbots (MHCBs) designed to support individuals in coping with mental health issues are rapidly advancing. Currently, these MHCBs are predominantly used in commercial rather than clinical contexts, but this might change soon. The question is whether this use is ethically desirable. This paper addresses a critical yet understudied concern: assuming that MHCBs cannot have genuine emotions, how this assumption may affect psychotherapy…
Reducing suicides in mental healthcare
Institutions labeled as above average registered significantly more suicide attempts and also better adhered to the guideline compared with institutions that had performed less well. Although no convincing intervention effect on suicides was found within the study period, we do think that this network is potentially able to reduce suicides. Continuous investments and fully implementing as many guideline recommendations as possible are essential t…
Patient Perceptions of Illness Causes and Treatment Preferences for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
The bidirectional relationship between severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms and lifestyle factors in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Previous studies on other psychiatric disorders have found that unhealthy lifestyle factors are associated with more severe psychiatric symptoms. It appears that OCD might differ in these aspects. In the present study, drug and alcohol use, higher BMI, and a composite score of unhealthy lifestyle factors were not associated with more severe OCD symptoms and did not predict greater symptom severity two years later. However, consistent with finding…
Psychiatry (12 obras) · Psychology (12 obras) · Medicine (11 obras) · Clinical Psychology (10 obras) · Clinical Psychology (7 obras) · Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (6 obras) · Psychotherapist (6 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (4 obras) · Immigration (4 obras)