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Laurence Claes

Laurence Claes

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Psychology

D-Index
75
Citations
20150
World Ranking
1793
National Ranking
24

Overview

Laurence Claes is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has a significant publication record in psychology and medicine, with a primary focus on clinical psychology. Their work includes extensive research in experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, psychiatry and mental health, as well as sociology and political science.

Their research topics cover a wide range of areas, notably:

  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Family Support in Illness

Laurence Claes has published in several key venues, including:

  • European Eating Disorders Review
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Nutrients
  • Psychologica Belgica

They have frequent collaborations with coauthors such as Koen Luyckx, Glenn Kiekens, Tim Bastiaens, Leni Raemen, and Lore Vankerckhoven.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "COVID-19 and implications for eating disorders," 2020, European Eating Disorders Review
  • "International Assessment of DSM-5 and ICD-11 Personality Disorder Traits: Toward a Common Nosology in DSM-5.1," 2020, Psychopathology
  • "Non-suicidal self-injury among first-year college students and its association with mental disorders: results from the World Mental Health International College Student (WMH-ICS) initiative," 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • "Fluctuations in Affective States and Self-Efficacy to Resist Non-Suicidal Self-Injury as Real-Time Predictors of Non-Suicidal Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors," 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "COVID Isolation Eating Scale (CIES): Analysis of the impact of confinement in eating disorders and obesity-A collaborative international study," 2020, European Eating Disorders Review

Best Publications

  • International prevalence of adolescent non-suicidal self-injury and deliberate self-harm

    Jennifer J. Muehlenkamp;Laurence Claes;L. Havertape;P.L. Plener

  • Gray's Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory as a framework for research on personality-psychopathology associations.

    Patricia Bijttebier;Ilse Beck;Laurence Claes;Walter Vandereycken

  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence studies in transsexualism

    J. Arcelus;J. Arcelus;W.P. Bouman;W. Van Den Noortgate;L. Claes

  • COVID-19 and implications for eating disorders.

    Fernando Fernández‐Aranda;Fernando Fernández‐Aranda;Miquel Casas;Miquel Casas;Laurence Claes;Laurence Claes;Danielle Clark Bryan

  • The associations between non-suicidal self-injury and first onset suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

    G. Kiekens;G. Kiekens;Penelope Hasking;Mark Boyes;L. Claes

  • Assessing the Affective Features of Psychopathy in Adolescence: A Further Validation of the Inventory of Callous and Unemotional Traits

    Annelore Roose;Patricia Bijttebier;Stefaan Decoene;Laurence Claes

  • Non-suicidal self-injury and suicidality in trans people: A systematic review of the literature

    Ellen Marshall;Laurence Claes;Walter Pierre Bouman;Gemma L Witcomb

  • Impulsiveness and lack of inhibitory control in eating disorders.

    Laurence Claes;Chantal Nederkoorn;Walter Vandereycken;Ramona Guerrieri

  • Self-injurious behavior: differential diagnosis and functional differentiation.

    Laurence Claes;Walter Vandereycken

  • Impulsivity-related traits in eating disorder patients

    Laurence Claes;Walter Vandereycken;Hans Vertommen

  • Age of onset of non-suicidal self-injury in Dutch-speaking adolescents and emerging adults: An event history analysis of pooled data

    Amarendra Gandhi;Koen Luyckx;Imke Baetens;Glenn Kiekens

  • Brief report: the association between non-suicidal self-injury, self-concept and acquaintance with self-injurious peers in a sample of adolescents.

    Laurence Claes;Adinda Houben;Walter Vandereycken;Patricia Bijttebier

  • Bullying and Victimization, Depressive Mood, and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Parental Support

    Laurence Claes;Koen Luyckx;Imke Baetens;Monique Van de Ven

  • Non-Suicidal and Suicidal Self-Injurious Behavior among Flemish Adolescents: A Web-Survey

    Imke Baetens;Laurence Claes;Jennifer Muehlenkamp;Hans Grietens

  • Self-injury in female versus male psychiatric patients: A comparison of characteristics, psychopathology and aggression regulation

    Laurence Claes;Walter Vandereycken;Hans Vertommen

  • Assessing Rational and Intuitive Thinking Styles

    Cilia Witteman;Cilia Witteman;John van den Bercken;Laurence Claes;Antonio Godoy

  • Transgender and anxiety: a comparative study between transgender people and the general population

    Walter Pierre Bouman;Laurence Claes;Nicky Brewin;John R. Crawford

  • The affect-regulation function of nonsuicidal self-injury in eating-disordered patients: which affect states are regulated?

    Laurence Claes;E. David Klonsky;Jennifer Muehlenkamp;Peter Kuppens

  • Self-injurious behaviors in eating-disordered patients.

    Laurence Claes;Walter Vandereycken;Hans Vertommen

  • Eating‐disordered patients with and without self‐injurious behaviours: a comparison of psychopathological features

    Laurence Claes;Walter Vandereycken;Hans Vertommen

Frequent Co-Authors

Koen Luyckx
Koen Luyckx KU Leuven
Guido Pieters
Guido Pieters KU Leuven
Fernando Fernández-Aranda
Fernando Fernández-Aranda University of Barcelona
Susana Jiménez-Murcia
Susana Jiménez-Murcia University of Barcelona
Dirk Hermans
Dirk Hermans KU Leuven
Roser Granero
Roser Granero Autonomous University of Barcelona
Jennifer J. Muehlenkamp
Jennifer J. Muehlenkamp University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire

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