Vivian Kraaij is Associate Professor in Psychology at the Department of Clinical Psychology at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her work at the University consists of a combination of research, course development, teaching and management tasks.

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Academic Career

For more information:  Curriculum vitae Kraaij

Research

My main research interest concerns the coping and goal adjustment strategies that people use to handle their chronic disease/medical condition or stressful life events and its relationship with psychological well-being. With these components we develop evidence-based low-demanding and cost-effective self-help intervention programs to improve psychological well-being. We develop both self-help programs in booklet format and online self-help programs (e-health). In addition, I am one of the developers of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, which can be used to measure people’s cognitive coping strategies.

Teaching

Development of several courses (Motivational Interviewing for Medical Doctors; Psychodiagnostics; E-health); Coordination and teaching of various BA and MA courses; MA thesis supervision, PhD student supervision.

Management

Member of committees, such as Board of Examiners (chair), advisory committees (“Instituutsraad Psychologie”) and work groups in and outside the faculty. Member of the board of Clinical and Health Psychology (2009-2011: representative of Medical Psychology).

Publications

For a complete list of journal and book publications click on the tab Published work at the top of this page or visit the CERQ website

Publications

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