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Filip Raes

Filip Raes

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Psychology

D-Index
55
Citations
18732
World Ranking
4316
National Ranking
60

Overview

Filip Raes is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has an extensive publication record in the field of Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Social Psychology.

Their research covers a range of mental health and cognitive topics, including Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes; Identity, Memory, and Therapy; Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development; Mental Health Research Topics; Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions; Memory Processes and Influences; and Resilience and Mental Health.

Filip Raes has published in prominent journals with multiple contributions to:

  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Psychologica Belgica
  • Mindfulness
  • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Public Health

Recent papers include:

  • Effects of a mindfulness-based intervention on cancer-related cognitive impairment: Results of a randomized controlled functional magnetic resonance imaging pilot study (2020, Cancer)
  • Changing the future: An initial test of Future Specificity Training (FeST) (2020, Behaviour Research and Therapy)
  • Computerized Memory Specificity Training (c-MeST) for major depression: A randomised controlled trial (2020, Behaviour Research and Therapy)
  • The Impact of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Brain Functional Connectivity: a Systematic Review (2022, Mindfulness)
  • The current state of memory Specificity Training (MeST) for emotional disorders (2021, Current Opinion in Psychology)

Frequent co-authors of Filip Raes include:

  • Keisuke Takano
  • David John Hallford
  • Katleen Van der Gucht
  • Liesbeth Bogaert
  • Eline Belmans

Best Publications

  • Construction and factorial validation of a short form of the Self-Compassion Scale.

    Filip Raes;Elizabeth Pommier;Kristin D. Neff;Dinska Van Gucht

  • Autobiographical memory specificity and emotional disorder.

    J. Mark G. Williams;Thorsten Barnhofer;Catherine Crane;Dirk Hermans

  • Rumination and worry as mediators of the relationship between self-compassion and depression and anxiety

    Filip Raes

  • Mindfulness skills and interpersonal behaviour

    Mathias Dekeyser;Filip Raes;Mia Leijssen;Sara Leysen

  • Reducing cognitive vulnerability to depression: A preliminary investigation of MEmory Specificity Training (MEST) in inpatients with depressive symptomatology

    Filip Raes;J. Mark G. Williams;Dirk Hermans

  • Mental Imagery in Depression: Phenomenology, Potential Mechanisms, and Treatment Implications.

    Emily A. Holmes;Emily A. Holmes;Simon E. Blackwell;Stephanie Burnett Heyes;Stephanie Burnett Heyes;Fritz Renner

  • Brooding and Reflection as Subtypes of Rumination: Evidence from Confirmatory Factor Analysis in Nonclinical Samples using the Dutch Ruminative Response Scale

    Hanne Schoofs;Dirk Hermans;Filip Raes

  • School-based prevention and reduction of depression in adolescents: a cluster-randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness group program

    Filip Raes;James W. Griffith;Katleen Van der Gucht;J. Mark G. Williams

  • Autobiographical memory specificity and affect regulation: an experimental approach.

    Filip Raes;Dirk Hermans;An de Decker;Paul Eelen

  • The Effect of Self-Compassion on the Development of Depression Symptoms in a Non-clinical Sample

    Filip Raes

  • Mindfulness and reduced cognitive reactivity to sad mood: evidence from a correlational study and a non-randomized waiting list controlled study.

    Filip Raes;David Dewulf;Cees Van Heeringen;J. Mark G. Williams

  • The Relationship between Mindfulness and Uncontrollability of Ruminative Thinking

    Filip Raes;J. Mark G. Williams

  • Reduced autobiographical memory specificity and rumination in predicting the course of depression.

    F Raes;D Hermans;Jmg Williams;Wim Beyers

  • Reduced specificity of autobiographical memory: a mediator between rumination and ineffective social problem-solving in major depression?

    Filip Raes;Dirk Hermans;J. Mark G. Williams;Koen Demyttenaere

  • Reduced autobiographical memory specificity and affect regulation

    Filip Raes;Filip Raes;Dirk Hermans;Dirk Hermans;J. Mark G. Williams;J. Mark G. Williams;Paul Eelen;Paul Eelen

  • Temperament and risk for depressive symptoms in adolescence: mediation by rumination and moderation by effortful control.

    Katrien Verstraeten;Michael W. Vasey;Filip Raes;Patricia Bijttebier

  • A sentence completion procedure as an alternative to the Autobiographical Memory Test for assessing overgeneral memory in non-clinical populations.

    Filip Raes;Dirk Hermans;J. Mark G. Williams;Paul Eelen

  • Dampening of positive affect prospectively predicts depressive symptoms in non-clinical samples

    Filip Raes;Jorien Smets;Sabine Nelis;Hanne Schoofs

  • Advancing psychotherapy and evidence-based psychological interventions

    Paul M.G. Emmelkamp;Paul M.G. Emmelkamp;Daniel David;Daniel David;Tom Beckers;Peter Muris

  • The Cognitive Building Blocks of Emotion Regulation: Ability to Update Working Memory Moderates the Efficacy of Rumination and Reappraisal on Emotion

    Madeline Lee Pe;Filip Raes;Peter Kuppens;Peter Kuppens

  • Autobiographical memory specificity and trauma in inpatient adolescents.

    An de Decker;Dirk Hermans;Filip Raes;Paul Eelen

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Hermans
Dirk Hermans KU Leuven
Paul Eelen
Paul Eelen KU Leuven
J. Mark G. Williams
J. Mark G. Williams University of Oxford
Michael W. Vasey
Michael W. Vasey The Ohio State University
Guido Pieters
Guido Pieters KU Leuven
James W. Griffith
James W. Griffith Northwestern University

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