Vivian Kraaij
Associate professor
- Name
- Dr. V. Kraaij
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3736
- kraaij@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1146-177x
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.
Academic Career
| 2017–present | Associate Professor (UHD) Clinical Psychology, Leiden University |
| 2011-2016 | Assistant Professor (UD) Clinical and Health Psychology at Leiden University |
| 2005–2011 | Senior Researcher / Assistant Professor Medical Psychology, Leiden University Medical Center |
| 2002–2005 | Assistant Professor (UD) Clinical and Health Psychology at Leiden University |
| 2000-2002 | Postdoc Clinical and Health Psychology at Leiden University |
| 2000 | PhD Clinical and Health Psychology at Leiden University Project: Depressive symptoms in the elderly: Negative life events and buffering factors |
| 1995-2000 | PhD student Clinical and Health Psychology at Leiden University. Research School: Psychology & Health |
| 1993-1995 | Research and Teacher Assistant Clinical and Health Psychology at Leiden University |
| 1992-1993 | Researcher at the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire (USA) |
| 1988-1994 | MA (Cum Laude) Clinical and Health Psychology, Leiden University |
| 1987-1988 | State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA) |
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
Associate professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Klinische Psychologie
- Verhoeven C.J.M., Kraaij V. & Joekes K.J. (31 August 1998), The teaching job and its correlates. poster presented at the 12th Conference of the European Health Psychology Society. Wenen. [lecture].
- Kraaij V. & Wilde E.J. de (26 May 1998), Negative life events and depression in the elderly. Second Dutch Conference on Psychology & Health. Kerkrade. [lecture].
- Kraaij V. & Wilde E.J. de (23 November 1998), Traumatic events and depression in the elderly. 14th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Washington. [lecture].
- Kraaij V., Kremers I.P., Arensman E. & Kerkhof A.J.F.M. (26 March 1997), Life events and depression in late life over the life cycle. XIX Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. Adelaïde Australia. [lecture].
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