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Kees van Heeringen

Kees van Heeringen

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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46
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World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Overview

Kees van Heeringen is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and is active in the field of psychology with a particular focus on clinical and social psychology aspects. Their research extensively covers suicide and self-harm studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and mental health treatment and access.

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Psychology

The subfields in which van Heeringen specializes are:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Applied Psychology

The main research topics addressed in their work are:

  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Van Heeringen has published multiple papers in peer-reviewed journals. Recent publications include:

  • "Suicide Prevention in the European Region," 2020, published in Crisis
  • "Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Individuals Who Are Suicidal: A Randomized Controlled Trial," 2023, published in Archives of Suicide Research
  • "Future-Oriented Group Training for suicidal individuals: A randomized controlled trial," 2023, published in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • "Effects of a Serious Game for Adolescent Mental Health on Cognitive Vulnerability: Pilot Usability Study," 2024, published in JMIR Serious Games
  • "Evaluation of an online suicide prevention campaign targeting men," 2023, published in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Frequent co-authors collaborating with van Heeringen include:

  • Eva De Jaegere
  • Gwendolyn Portzky
  • Pauline Stas
  • Renate van Landschoot
  • Eva Dumon

Van Heeringen's work is commonly disseminated in several journals, especially:

  • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • Crisis
  • Archives of Suicide Research
  • JMIR Serious Games
  • Journal of the American Pharmacists Association

Best Publications

  • Suicide prevention strategies revisited: 10-year systematic review

    Gil Zalsman;Gil Zalsman;Keith Hawton;Danuta Wasserman;Kees van Heeringen

  • The International Handbook of Suicide and Attempted Suicide

    Keith Hawton;Kees van Heeringen

  • Deliberate self-harm within an international community sample of young people: Comparative findings from the Child & Adolescent Self-harm in Europe (CASE) Study.

    Nicola Madge;Allyson Hewitt;Keith E. Hawton;Erik Jan de Wilde

  • Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Prevention of Depressive Relapse: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis From Randomized Trials

    Willem Kuyken;Fiona C. Warren;Rod S. Taylor;Ben Whalley

  • Deliberate self harm: systematic review of efficacy of psychosocial and pharmacological treatments in preventing repetition

    Keith E. Hawton;E. Arensman;E. Townsend;S. Bremner

  • The neurobiology of suicide

    Kees van Heeringen;J John Mann

  • The prevention and treatment of complicated grief: a meta-analysis.

    Ciska Wittouck;Sara Van Autreve;Eva De Jaegere;Gwendolyn Portzky

  • Psychological characteristics, stressful life events and deliberate self-harm: findings from the Child & Adolescent Self-harm in Europe (CASE) Study.

    Nicola Madge;Keith E. Hawton;Elaine M. McMahon;Paul Corcoran

  • Interventions for self‐harm in children and adolescents

    Keith Hawton;Katrina G. Witt;Tatiana L. Taylor Salisbury;Ella Arensman

  • Psychosocial interventions for self‐harm in adults

    Keith Hawton;Katrina G Witt;Tatiana L Taylor Salisbury;Ella Arensman

  • Suicide mortality in the European Union.

    Christopher Birt;Unni Bille‐Brahe;Madelena Cabecadas;Parveen Chishti

  • Psychosocial interventions following self-harm in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Keith Hawton;Katrina G Witt;Tatiana L Taylor Salisbury;Tatiana L Taylor Salisbury;Ella Arensman

  • Why People Engage in Parasuicide: A Cross-Cultural Study of Intentions

    Heidi Hjelmeland;Keith Hawton;Hilmar Nordvik;Unni Bille-Brahe

  • Accelerated intermittent theta burst stimulation treatment in medication-resistant major depression: A fast road to remission?

    Romain Duprat;Stefanie Desmyter;De Raedt Rudi;Kees van Heeringen

  • Reasons for adolescent deliberate self-harm: a cry of pain and/or a cry for help? Findings from the child and adolescent self-harm in Europe (CASE) study.

    Gerrit Scoliers;Gwendolyn Portzky;Nicola Madge;Anthea Hewitt

  • The neurobiology of suicide and suicidality.

    Kees van Heeringen

  • Deliberate self-harm in adolescents: Comparison between those who receive help following self-harm and those who do not

    Mette Ystgaard;Ella Arensman;Keith E. Hawton;Nicola Madge

  • Stress–Diathesis Model of Suicidal Behavior

    Kees van Heeringen

  • What is important in being cured from depression? Discordance between physicians and patients (1).

    Koen Demyttenaere;Anne-Françoise Donneau;Adelin Albert;Marc Ansseau

  • Suicide among adolescents. A psychological autopsy study of psychiatric, psychosocial and personality-related risk factors.

    Gwendolyn Portzky;Kurt Audenaert;Kees van Heeringen

  • Is there a neuroanatomical basis of the vulnerability to suicidal behavior? A coordinate-based meta-analysis of structural and functional MRI studies.

    Kees van Heeringen;Stijn Bijttebier;Stefanie Desmyter;Myriam Vervaet

  • Cortisol in violent suicidal behaviour: association with personality and monoaminergic activity

    Kees van Heeringen;Kurt Audenaert;Lieve Van de Wiele;Alain Verstraete

  • Deliberate self-harm in young people: differences in prevalence and risk factors between the Netherlands and Belgium.

    Gwendolyn Portzky;Erik-Jan De Wilde;Kees van Heeringen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ella Arensman
Ella Arensman University College Cork
Ellen Townsend
Ellen Townsend University of Nottingham
Ad J. F. M. Kerkhof
Ad J. F. M. Kerkhof Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Chris Baeken
Chris Baeken Ghent University
Armin Schmidtke
Armin Schmidtke University of Würzburg
Paul Corcoran
Paul Corcoran University College Cork
Alan Apter
Alan Apter Reichman University
Gil Zalsman
Gil Zalsman Tel Aviv University
Heidi Hjelmeland
Heidi Hjelmeland Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Julio Bobes
Julio Bobes University of Oviedo

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