Joanne Mouthaan is an assistant professor and educational coordinator at the Clinical Psychology Department. She studies the psychological effects of trauma.

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Joanne Mouthaan is an assistant professor and educational coordinator at the Clinical Psychology Department. She studies the psychological effects of trauma. 

Research on trauma

Mouthaans research focuses on prevention and prediction of psychological responses to trauma. She also investigates suicide prevention, student wellbeing and technological innovations in mental health care and mental health professional training, i.e., via e-health and e-learning.

In 2015, she was awarded the Jan van Dijk Victimology and Victims' Rights Award for her dissertation “Injured Bodies, Injured Souls?” on the prediction and prevention of trauma-related psychological symptoms after injury. 

She is part of the International Consortium on Prediction of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (ICPP) and the CONNECT Research Group under the ADJUST Study Consortium on psychosocial responses of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Projects and grants

Joanne Mouthaan is project leader of the project E-learning Suicide Prevention Skills for Psychologists in Training as part of the Third National Agenda Suicide Prevention 2021-2025. Together with dr. Vivian Kraaij, Mouthaan received a grant for the development of an e-learning for online treatment skills (FSW Grass Shoots, 2018).

Education

As the department’s educational coordinator, she oversees the coordination of the clinical psychology department’s teaching in the Bachelor, Master and Post-Master curriculum. She teaches theoretical, methodological and clinical skills courses, supervises Bachelor and Master theses, and coordinates the Master elective courses E-health Interventions in Mental Health Care and Trauma and Mental Health.

Collaborations

Joanne Mouthaan is Chair of the Dutch Association for Psychotrauma (NtVP), current President of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS), and Editorial Board Member at the European Journal for Psychotraumatology.

Grants and prizes

• FSW Casimir prize for educational innovation for the implementation of an e-learning for suicide prevention skills for bachelor and master Psychology (2023)
• National Agenda Suicide Prevention 2021-2025 project subsidy for Development of E-learning for Suicide Prevention Skills for Mental Health Care Personnel in Training (2020)
• Leiden University Faculty for Social Sciences Grass Shoots grant for e-learning module development for online treatment skills (2018)
• Nominee for Institute of Psychology teaching award of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University (2018; 2021; 2022)
• Jan van Dijk Victimology and Victims' Rights Award for PhD thesis “Injured Body, Injured Soul? Predicting and Preventing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After Injury” (2015)
• Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) Efficiency grant (2005)
• Achmea Foundation for Victims and Society (Stichting Achmea Slachtoffer en Samenleving) (2005)

Publications