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Overview

Maarten C. Eisma is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and has a strong research focus within psychology and medicine. Their work broadly addresses topics related to grief, bereavement, and mental health, as well as public health and social issues.

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Psychology (159 publications)
  • Medicine (45 publications)

Within these, key subfields are:

  • Clinical Psychology (126 publications)
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (38 publications)
  • General Health Professions (20 publications)
  • Social Psychology (20 publications)
  • Health (7 publications)

The primary topics explored in Maarten C. Eisma's work encompass:

  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (132 publications)
  • Migration, Health and Trauma (82 publications)
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (40 publications)
  • Homelessness and Social Issues (32 publications)
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (32 publications)
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (24 publications)
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (16 publications)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with this researcher include:

  • Paul A. Boelen (31 publications)
  • Lonneke I. M. Lenferink (19 publications)
  • Bettina K. Doering (13 publications)
  • Jos de Keijser (8 publications)
  • Margaret Stroebe (8 publications)

The researcher's work has been published in several recurring venues. The most frequent publication journals are:

  • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy (7 publications)
  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology (6 publications)
  • PsycTESTS Dataset (6 publications)
  • Behavior Therapy (5 publications)
  • Death Studies (5 publications)

Selected recent papers by Maarten C. Eisma include:

  • "Prolonged grief disorder following the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic," 2020, Psychiatry Research
  • "Acute grief after deaths due to COVID-19, natural causes and unnatural causes: An empirical comparison," 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Grief Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Multiple Group Comparisons," 2020, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Best Publications

  • Prolonged grief disorder following the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

    Maarten C. Eisma;Paul A. Boelen;Lonneke I.M. Lenferink

  • Acute grief after deaths due to COVID-19, natural causes and unnatural causes: An empirical comparison.

    Maarten C. Eisma;Aerjen Tamminga;Geert E. Smid;Paul A. Boelen

  • Internet-Based Exposure and Behavioral Activation for Complicated Grief and Rumination: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Maarten C. Eisma;Paul A. Boelen;Jan van den Bout;Wolfgang Stroebe;Wolfgang Stroebe

  • Barriers and facilitators of disclosing domestic violence to the healthcare service: A systematic review of qualitative research.

    Rebecca L. Heron;Rebecca L. Heron;Maarten C. Eisma

  • Avoidance processes mediate the relationship between rumination and symptoms of complicated grief and depression following loss.

    Maarten C. Eisma;Margaret S. Stroebe;Henk A. W. Schut;Wolfgang Stroebe

  • Grief Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Multiple Group Comparisons.

    Maarten C. Eisma;Aerjen Tamminga

  • Adaptive and maladaptive rumination after loss. A three-wave longitudinal study

    Maarten C. Eisma;Henk A. W. Schut;Maggie S. Stroebe;Maggie S. Stroebe;Paul A. Boelen

  • Valid measurement of DSM-5 persistent complex bereavement disorder and DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder: The Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report Plus (TGI-SR+).

    L I M Lenferink;M C Eisma;G E Smid;J de Keijser

  • Emotion Regulatory Strategies in Complicated Grief : A Systematic Review

    Maarten C. Eisma;Margaret S. Stroebe

  • Treatment for complicated grief: state of the science and ways forward.

    Bettina K. Doering;Maarten C. Eisma

  • Behaviour change techniques associated with smoking cessation in intervention and comparator groups of randomized controlled trials: a systematic review and meta-regression

    Nicola Black;Nicola Black;Marie Johnston;Susan Michie;Jamie Hartmann-Boyce

  • Development and psychometric evaluation of the Utrecht grief rumination scale

    Maarten C. Eisma;Margaret S. Stroebe;Henk A.W. Schut;Jan van den Bout

  • Sleep-Related Safety Behaviors and Dysfunctional Beliefs Mediate the Efficacy of Online CBT for Insomnia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Jaap Lancee;Maarten C. Eisma;Annemieke van Straten;Jan Henk Kamphuis

  • Prolonged grief disorder in ICD-11 and <i>DSM</i>-5-TR: Challenges and controversies

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  • Rumination and implicit avoidance following bereavement : An approach avoidance task investigation

    Maarten C. Eisma;Mike Rinck;Margaret S. Stroebe;Henk A.W. Schut

  • Complicated grief and post-traumatic stress symptom profiles in bereaved earthquake survivors: a latent class analysis

    Maarten C. Eisma;Lonneke I. M. Lenferink;Amy Y. M. Chow;Cecilia L. W. Chan

  • No pain, no gain : cross-lagged analyses of posttraumatic growth and anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress and prolonged grief symptoms after loss

    Maarten C Eisma;Lonneke I M Lenferink;Margaret S Stroebe;Paul A Boelen

  • How thinking hurts: Rumination, worry, and avoidance processes in adjustment to bereavement

    Maarten C. Eisma;Thomas A. de Lang;Paul A. Boelen

  • Sleep disturbances in bereavement: A systematic review.

    Marike Lancel;Margaret Stroebe;Maarten C. Eisma

  • Underreporting of the active content of behavioural interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials of smoking cessation interventions

    Marijn de Bruin;Marijn de Bruin;Nicola Black;Nicola Black;Neza Javornik;Wolfgang Viechtbauer

  • Is rumination after bereavement linked with loss avoidance?: Evidence from eye-tracking

    Maarten C. Eisma;Henk A. W. Schut;Margaret S. Stroebe;Jan van den Bout

  • ICD-11 Prolonged Grief Disorder Criteria: Turning Challenges Into Opportunities With Multiverse Analyses.

    Maarten C. Eisma;Rita Rosner;Hannah Comtesse

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Boelen
Paul A. Boelen Utrecht University
Margaret Stroebe
Margaret Stroebe Utrecht University
Henk Schut
Henk Schut Utrecht University
Wolfgang Stroebe
Wolfgang Stroebe University of Groningen
Jan van den Bout
Jan van den Bout Utrecht University
Marie Johnston
Marie Johnston University of Aberdeen
Susan Michie
Susan Michie University College London
Jaap Lancee
Jaap Lancee University of Amsterdam
Geert E. Smid
Geert E. Smid University of Humanistic Studies
Mary-Frances O'Connor
Mary-Frances O'Connor University of Arizona

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