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Neurobiology and crime : a neuro-ethical perspective

Current neurobiological research in the field of criminology focuses on the neurobiological characteristics associated with antisocial behavior, the prediction of antisocial behavior later in life based on neurobiological risk factors, and the ways in which neurobiological factors interact with psychological and environmental risk factors. Although...

Professional care seeking for mental health problems among women and men in Europe: the role of socioeconomic, family-re...

Published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

PurposeThis comparative study examines cross-national variation in gender differences in primary and specialized mental health care use in Europe. We investigate to what extent socioeconomic, family-related, and mental health factors explain the gender difference, and how the impact of these groups of determinants on gender differences in mental he...

Medicalizing versus psychologizing mental illness: what are the implications for help seeking and stigma? A general popu...

Published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

PurposeThis study contrasts the medicalized conceptualization of mental illness with psychologizing mental illness and examines what the consequences are of adhering to one model versus the other for help seeking and stigma.MethodsThe survey “Stigma in a Global Context–Belgian Mental Health Study” (2009) conducted face-to-face interviews among a re...

Attitudes Toward Community Mental Health Care: The Contact Paradox Revisited

Published in Community Mental Health Journal

Contact with people with mental illness is considered to be a promising strategy to change stigmatizing attitudes. This study examines the underlying mechanisms of the association between contact and attitudes toward community mental health care. Data are derived from the 2009 survey “Stigma in a Global Context—Belgian Mental Health Study”, using t...