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Nadia Garnefski

Nadia Garnefski

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Psychology

D-Index
55
Citations
18915
World Ranking
4314
National Ranking
207

Overview

Nadia Garnefski is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a particular focus on clinical and experimental aspects. Their research spans multiple subfields including clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, infectious diseases, and social psychology.

The main areas of study for Garnefski encompass anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additionally, their research addresses family caregiving in mental illness, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, digital mental health interventions, and broader mental health research topics including treatment and access.

Garnefski has published in several academic venues with multiple articles appearing in AIDS and Behavior. Other significant publication venues include The Lancet Psychiatry, PLoS ONE, Journal of Medical Internet Research, and Psychology and Aging.

Recent published papers by Garnefski feature various facets of mental health and therapy:

  • "Dismantling, optimising, and personalising internet cognitive behavioural therapy for depression: a systematic review and component network meta-analysis using individual participant data" (2021, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • "Blended Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Versus Face-to-face Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Older Adults With Anxiety Symptoms in Primary Care: Pragmatic Single-blind Cluster Randomized Trial" (2021, Journal of Medical Internet Research)
  • "Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy intervention vs. a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy intervention for older adults with anxiety symptoms: A randomized controlled trial" (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • "Prevalence of anxiety disorders and subthreshold anxiety throughout later life: Systematic review and meta-analysis." (2020, Psychology and Aging)
  • "Academic stress, mindfulness-related skills and mental health in international university students" (2022, Journal of American College Health)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Garnefski include Vivian Kraaij, Philip Spinhoven, Maartje Witlox, Sanne van Luenen, and Ernst T. Bohlmeijer.

Best Publications

  • Negative life events, cognitive emotion regulation and emotional problems

    N Garnefski;V Kraaij;P Spinhoven

  • Relationships between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and depressive symptoms: A comparative study of five specific samples

    Nadia Garnefski;Vivian Kraaij

  • The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire Psychometric Features and Prospective Relationships with Depression and Anxiety in Adults

    Nadia Garnefski;Vivian Kraaij

  • Cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire - development of a short 18-item version (CERQ-short).

    Nadia Garnefski;Vivian Kraaij

  • Cognitive coping strategies and symptoms of depression and anxiety: a comparison between adolescents and adults.

    Nadia Garnefski;Jeroen Legerstee;Vivian V Kraaij;Tessa Van Den Kommer

  • Cognitive emotion regulation strategies and depressive symptoms: differences between males and females

    Nadia Garnefski;Jan Teerds;Vivian Kraaij;Jeroen Legerstee

  • The relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and emotional problems: comparison between a clinical and a non-clinical sample

    Nadia Garnefski;Tessa Van Den Kommer;Vivian Kraaij;Jan Teerds

  • Specificity of relations between adolescents' cognitive emotion regulation strategies and Internalizing and Externalizing psychopathology.

    Nadia Garnefski;Vivian Kraaij;Marije van Etten

  • Negative life events and depressive symptoms in late adolescence: Bonding and cognitive coping as vulnerability factors?

    Vivian Kraaij;Nadia Garnefski;Erik Jan de Wilde;Arie Dijkstra

  • Cognitive emotion regulation strategies and emotional problems in 9 - 11-year-old children: the development of an instrument.

    Nadia Garnefski;Carolien Rieffe;Francine Jellesma;Mark Meerum Terwogt

  • Adolescent goal content and pursuit: A review of the literature from the past 16 years.

    Emma K. Massey;Winifred A. Gebhardt;Nadia Garnefski

  • Perceived Social Support from Family, School, and Peers: Relationship with Emotional and Behavioral Problems among Adolescents

    Nadia Garnefski;René F.W. Diekstra

  • Sexual abuse and adolescent maladjustment: differences between male and female victims

    Nadia Garnefski;Ellen Arends

  • Cognitive coping and depressive symptoms in the elderly: a longitudinal study.

    V Kraaij;E Pruymboom;N Garnefski

  • Cognitive–behavioural intervention for self-harm: randomised controlled trial

    Nadja Slee;Nadia Garnefski;Rien van der Leeden;Ella Arensman

  • Brief report: Cognitive emotion regulation strategies and psychological adjustment in adolescents with a chronic disease.

    Nadia Garnefski;Hendrik Koopman;Vivian Kraaij;Rebecca ten Cate

  • Specificity of relations between adolescents' cognitive emotion regulation strategies and symptoms of depression and anxiety.

    Nadia Garnefski;Vivian Kraaij

  • On the Nature, Magnitude, and Causality of Suicidal Behaviors: An International Perspective

    Rene F. W. Diekstra;Nadia Garnefski

  • Dismantling, optimising, and personalising internet cognitive behavioural therapy for depression: a systematic review and component network meta-analysis using individual participant data.

    Toshi A. Furukawa;Aya Suganuma;Edoardo G. Ostinelli;Gerhard Andersson;Gerhard Andersson

  • Child Sexual Abuse and Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Adolescence: Gender Differences

    Nadia Garnefski;René F.W. Diekstra

  • Adolescents from one parent, stepparent and intact families: emotional problems and suicide attempts

    Nadia Garnefski;René F.W. Diekstra

  • Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire

    N. Garnefski;V. Kraaij;P. Spinhoven

Frequent Co-Authors

Vivian Kraaij
Vivian Kraaij Leiden University
Maya J. Schroevers
Maya J. Schroevers University Medical Center Groningen
Philip Spinhoven
Philip Spinhoven Leiden University
René F. W. Diekstra
René F. W. Diekstra Roosevelt University
Stan Maes
Stan Maes Leiden University
Gerhard Andersson
Gerhard Andersson Linköping University
Viktor Kaldo
Viktor Kaldo Karolinska Institute
Arie Dijkstra
Arie Dijkstra University of Groningen
Michael Witthöft
Michael Witthöft Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Carolien Rieffe
Carolien Rieffe University of Twente

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