dr. Elke Veirman (PhD)
Postdoctoral researcher – Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (UGent)
Principal investigator: Prof. Stefaan Van Damme (PhD)
Research focus
Elke Veirman is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher on the RIZIV-INAMI WD-FAB project (psychometric validation of the Dutch and French Work-Disability Functional-Assessment-Battery) and the H2020 Sleep Revolution project (development and validation of the European Sleep Questionnaire).
Furthermore, she has a particular interest in sleep health and wellbeing, related to
healthy sleep and sleep in acute and chronic medical diseases
sleep in children and adolescents and its interaction with parental sleep
sleep in challenging work environments
Her line of research is mainly focused on
broader questions that challenge research in psychological assessment in general
the development, evaluation, and optimization of psychological assessment in clinical and health psychology practice, psycho-oncology, and sleep
the assessment and treatment of sleep disorders
Her teaching experience is related to
health psychology (e.g., theories of behavioral change, health action process approach, motivational interviewing, biopsychosocial and contextual perspective)
psychodiagnostics (e.g., non(cognitive) tests and questionnaires)
Biography
- MSc in Clinical Psychology (Ghent University)
- PhD in Psychology (Ghent University)
- Inter-University Certificate in Psycho-Oncology (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Cedric Hèle Institute)
- Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (UZ Leuven, Belgian Association for Sleep research and Sleep medicine)
Contact & links
- Lab address: Ghent Health Psychology Lab, Henri Dunantlaan 2,
B-9000 Gent, Belgium - ORCID
- ResearchGate
- Elke Veirman is interested to receive invitations for talks or presentations