Mental Health Care (Geestdrift)
At the Academic Collaborative Center Mental Health Care (Geestdrift), we aim to improve and optimize mental health care. The knowledge exchange focuses on improving the quality of care and the quality of life of people with mental disorders. Within the collaborative center (endowed) professors, researchers, and science practitioners work on central themes; including recovery and rehabilitation, geriatric psychiatry, somatic symptom disorders, personality disorders and autism, forensic mental health care, psychological trauma, antisocial behavior, and stigmatization.
The year of the Collaborative Center Mental Health Care consisted of several wonderful highlights. For example, they collaborated on the Symposium Older Adults Psychology: from Psychosomatics to Heroic Tragedy. The collaborative center organized the Mental Health Care Roadshow in June. By joining local referral cycles in this way, we reach the right interested parties. This time, we were the GGz WNB’s guests. It was again a great success and a great way to exchange knowledge! Arno van Dam was chair, and there were interesting presentations by Koen Grootens, Diana Roeg, and Peter van der Velden. The first 2023 Roadshow has already taken place at GGz Breburg. As the first Tranzo PhD of 2022, in February Dr. Cathelijn Tjaden successfully defended her Thesis 'Better Together. On Resource Groups for People with Severe Mental Illness'.
The (endowed) chairs of Mental Health Care (Geestdrift)
Prof. Chijs van Nieuwenhuizen's chair focuses on Forensic Mental Health Care. This chair was established by GGzE;
Prof. Inge Bongers focuses on sustainable innovation for (mental) health (care) with her chair Evidence-based Management in Mental Health Care. This chair was also established by GGzE;
Prof. Hans Kroon conducts research as part of the chair Ambulantization and Deinstitutionalization, established by the Trimbos Institute;
And Prof. Arno van Dam's chair focuses on Antisocial Behavior, Psychiatry, and Society. This chair was established by GGZ WNB.
Two new endowed chairs were also established in 2022.
For example, Prof. Peter van der Velden has been appointed to the chair Victims and Mental Health, established by Victim Support Fund.
Prof. Koen Grootens has been appointed to the chair Shared Decision Making in Severe Mental Illness. This chair was established by Reinier van Arkel.
In addition, there are 2 emeritus professors connected to the Academic Collaborative Center Mental Health Care. Prof. Jaap van Weeghel with rehabilitation and social participation as area of expertise and Prof. Richard Janssen with economics and organization of health care as area of expertise.
Some of the practice products
Conversation facilitator | This wonderful practice product was created from the ZonMw-funded project Recovering from and in the Triad. Margot Metz and Yolande Voskes are the contact persons for this project.
In the project Recovering from and in the Triad the needs and wishes of clients, relatives, and social workers regarding the cooperation in the triad have been researched by means of literature and interviews. From this, various points for improvement in triadic working emerged which have been incorporated into a toolbox.
The toolbox consists of a conversation facilitator, training materials focused on triadic work, training for triadic coaching, an overview of existing tools aimed at promoting dialogue and collaboration in the triad, and an animated film on the process of recovery in the triad.
The toolbox is currently being implemented in five pilot teams consisting of ART teams from GGz Breburg. Margot Metz and Yolande Voskes are following this as part of their research.
Fact sheet Mental Health | General outcomes at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic by Lars de Vroege and Anneloes van den Broek. Developed on the basis of a survey of mental health staff on mental health complaints during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The fact sheet describes the results regarding perceived mental symptoms, the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on work-life balance, sick leave, and absenteeism. The results are also discussed in relation to the desire for a different work arrangement following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Contribution film series | From his PhD research on the use of experience expertise in forensic care and his work as an experience expert at GGz Westelijk Noord-Brabant, Leonard van der Kolk had the opportunity to give various workshops, guest lectures, and presentations in 2022. A wonderful practice product in this year is his contribution to a five-part film series by EFP. In each film, two experts by experience enter into a dialogue about bottlenecks and issues within their work in forensic psychiatry. The films are intended to inspire professionals to reflect on these themes in their own organizations. Watch(new window) episode 3 of the film in which Leonard van der Kolk starts a dialogue about the contribution of the expert by experience to the multidisciplinary team.
The Faces of Mental Health Care
From left to right: Juul Koene, Rishana Matai, Dr. Iman Elfeddali, Brenda de Visser MSc, Prof. Evelien Brouwers, Dr. Machteld Ouwens, drs. Leonard van der Kolk, Eva de Bruijn MSc, Dr. Arjan Videler, Prof. Koen Grootens MD PhD, Dr. Margot Metz, Dr. Lars de Vroege, Jurre van der Mast, Myrthe Bredenoort, Prof. Peter van der Velden, Barbara Donders, Dr. Helene Andrea, Matthijs Hamakers MSc, Dr. Jeroen Dewinter, Prof. Inge Bongers, Dr. Kim Janssens, Latifa Si Amer MSc, Caroline van Genk MSc, Wendy Albers MSc, Janneke Aerts MSc, Prof. Richard Janssen, Prof. Jaap van Weeghel
Not pictured: Matheus Arts MD MSc, Ingrid Brummelhuis MSc, Prof. Arno van Dam, Tim van Dijl MSc, Dr. Eric Heer, Mickey Hoek, MSc, Prof. Hans Kroon, Prof. Chijs van Nieuwenhuizen, David Proost MSc, Eefje Raams MSc, Dr. Diana Roeg, Jeremiah Sijmons, Dr. Yolande Voskes, Marloes van Wezel MSc, Ingeborg Wirken MSc, Bente Woerden MSc
