BACKGROUND: European countries face the challenge of promoting refugee and immigrant children's well-being within their host communities, invoking the necessity of adequate mental health assessment. This study aims to contribute to document the psychosocial well-being of primary school refugee and non-refugee immigrant children in Flanders, Belgium...
status: published
status: published
Published in Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform
This study examines whether residential stability and neighbourhood SES, two key neighbourhood structural characteristics from Social Disorganisation Theory (SDT), have a contextual effect on perceived social trust, perceived informal social control, and perceived social disorder and whether these contextual structural and perceptual measures are r...
Published in Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology
An increasing body of literature emphasizes the role of refugees' social context, with social conditions both at home and in the host society having an impact on the possibility of power redistribution and the mobilization of agency in collaborative research practices. Our aim is to develop a contextualized understanding of research participation f...
Little is known about the impact of military conflict on sex work from the perspective of sex workers. We attempt to explore the meaning of conflict on sex work by asking women about the changes that they have experienced in their lives and work since the beginning of the 2014 military conflict in eastern Ukraine. The findings in this article are b...
Sexual violence (SV) has an important impact on mental health. Childhood sexual abuse is linked to internalising disorders in later life. In older adults, SV occurs more often than previously believed. Moreover, health care workers lack the skills to address SV in later life. Studies researching the mental health impact of lifetime SV, i.e., SV dur...
Mentally Disordered Offenders (MDOs) who have been declared not criminally responsible for their offense due to their mental condition should be admitted to settings with lowest possible level of security to support their social reintegration. In the context of the reorganization of care for MDOs in Belgium, we assessed the predictors and retrospec...
There are concerns that involving adolescents bereaved by suicide and other traumatic death in research may cause distress and harm. However, no study has investigated such bereaved adolescents' research experiences. In addition, no study has looked at the experiences of parents and clinicians as participants in adolescent suicide and traumatic dea...
Ample evidence has shown a relationship between right-wing attitudes and ideology-based aggression, yet the question remains whether these attitudes are also associated with aggression in contexts lacking any ideological components. Therefore, we investigated the relationship between right-wing attitudes and aggression in nonideological, frustratin...
