Andrea Spruijt
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- Name
- Dr. A.M. Spruijt
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- +31 71 527 2727
- a.m.spruijt@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
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- 0000-0001-9556-1254
Andrea Spruijt works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University.
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Short CV
Andrea Spruijt works as a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences. She particularly focuses on Selective Mutism research. She also works as a senior researcher at Yulius Academy focusing on Special Education research, associated with the Educational Expertise Center.
Andrea Spruijt graduated in Education and Child studies (Clinical Child and Adolescent studies) at Leiden University. For her bachelor’s degree she researched language acquisition in young children as part of the minor ‘Brain and Cognition’ at the LUMC. In 2012 she completed the Research Master programme ‘Developmental Psychopathology in Education and Child Studies’ and worked as a research assistant on neuropsychological functioning in children with Klinefelter Syndrome. She completed her internship at the Leiden University Ambulatorium, with developmental disorders as field of expertise. Here she built up expertise in conducting neuropsychological diagnostics.
In 2019 she completed her PhD research with the dissertation ‘Curious Minds: Stimulating parent-child interaction to foster neurocognitive functioning in four- to eight-year-olds.’ She particularly focused on parent-child interaction, including questioning style, in relation to executive and social functioning in school-aged children. Furthermore, she evaluated a compact educational parent program aimed at stimulating self-regulation in children.
Curriculum vitae Andrea Spruijt
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- Certificate Psychodiagnostic assessment (NVO Basisaantekening Psychodiagnostiek
- WMO/GCP certified
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- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Pedagogische Wetenschappen
- Neuropedagogiek en ontwikk. stoornissen
- Spruijt A. & Jonge M. de (2023), Selectief mutisme en autisme: een verkenning en aanbevelingen voor de praktijk, Wetenschappelijk Tijdschrift Autisme 22(2): 2-18.
- Spruijt A.M., Dekker M.C., Ziermans T.B. & Swaab J.T. (2020), Educating parents to improve parent-child interactions: fostering the development of attentional control and executive functioning, British Journal of Educational Psychology 90(S1): 158-175.
- Spruijt A.M., Ziermans T.B., Dekker M.C. & Swaab H. (2020), Educating parents to enhance children's reasoning abilities: A focus on questioning style, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 66: e101102.
- Spruijt A. (2020), Thuis een goede leeromgeving creëren: Bevorder de neurocognitieve ontwikkeling van je kind, Kind en Adolescent Praktijk 19: 34-38.
- Spruijt A.M., Dekker M.C., Ziermans T.B. & Swaab H. (2019), Linking Parenting and Social Competence in School-Aged Boys and Girls: Differential Socialization, Diathesis-Stress, or Differential Susceptibility?, Frontiers in Psychology 9: e2789.
- Spruijt A.M. (25 September 2019), Curious minds: stimulating parent-child interaction to foster neurocognitive functioning in four- to eight-year-olds (Dissertatie. Education and Child studies/ Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Swaab H., Dekker M.C. & Ziermans T.B.
- Spruijt A.M., Dekker M.C., Ziermans T.B. & Swaab H. (2018), Attentional control and executive functioning in school-aged children: Linking self-regulation and parenting strategies, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 166: 340-359.
- Dekker M.C., Ziermans T.B., Spruijt A.M. & Swaab J.T. (2017), Cognitive, Parent and Teacher Rating Measures of Executive Functioning: Shared and Unique Influences on School Achievement, Frontiers in Psychology 8: e48.
- Dekker M.C., Ziermans T.B., Spruijt A.M. & Swaab-Barneveld J.T. (2015), Aan talent werken doe je samen, Didaktief 45(6): 16.
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