@juliejns2.bsky.social
Psychologist, Family Therapist, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Contextual Psychiatry, KU Leuven and U Antwerp. Adolescent #mentalhealth, #experiencesampling, #Attachment, #Parent-childRelationships, #SelfHarm & #suicide researcher, #OpenScience.
🚨 New paper out!
We studied how loneliness relates to self-harm in adolescents in real time, and how parent–child attachment shapes this link, thereby offering key insights into when and why adolescents self-harm and what we can do to help.
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🗣️ I was interviewed by Observer, the magazine of the Association of Psychological Science (APS). It was great to be able to explain my findings on the link between loneliness and self-harm/suicidality among young people!
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🎉 Starting this Friday, I’m launching a new Instagram page to translate science on youth mental health in a clear and accessible way.
As a researcher and therapist, I see how difficult, but important it is to do this.
📅 First post drops this Friday!
📍 Instagram: [@dr.julieJanssens]
Exciting news!🤩 @juliejns2.bsky.social has advanced to the second round of the Falling Walls competition! She’ll pitch on preventing self-harm and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Let’s support her to win the audience award and to go to the international finals in Berlin! #FallingWalls #MentalHealth
18.03.2025 13:10 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Huge congrats to our very own @juliejns2.bsky.social for winning the Audience Award at Falling Walls Lab Leuven! 🎉
Her inspiring and heartfelt pitch on 'Breaking the wall of Self-harm Prevention' captivated the audience! A well-deserved recognition for her impactful research! 🚀👏 #FallingWallsLab
Selected for the Falling Walls Lab competition and taking home the audience choice award! 🤝❤️💪 #selfharm #prevention
28.03.2025 07:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Check this out 🤓 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
This is the 1st study that provides insights into the role of adverse childhood experiences (such as sexual abuse and bullying) in real-time, daily-life self-harm thoughts and behaviours in a large group of Flemish adolescents.
@oliviajkirtley.bsky.social
📊 What #OpenScience practices exist and how can we increasingly implement these in self-harm research (6/6)?
doi.org/10.1027/0227...
📊 How are #interpersonalprocesses associated with self-harm at both between- and within-person levels? And how have we measured these constructs so far in #ESM studies (5/6)?
doi.org/10.1016/j.cp...
⏳Are adolescents at increased risk for current self-harm thoughts during moments of #loneliness (4/6)?
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
🔍Are #adolescents with more #adversechildhoodexperiences more at risk for lifetime #self-harm and current self-harm thoughts and behaviours?
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
💡Is secure #attachment a potential buffer against the negative impact of the #COVID-19 pandemic on #adolescent #self-harm (2/6)?
doi.org/10.1111/jora...
✨ Reflecting on my PhD journey, where I delivered 6 key papers (1/6):
🔍 Are #adolescents with more insecure #attachment relationships more at risk for lifetime and current #self-harm thoughts and behaviours?
--> Published the first-ever Registered Report on self-harm!
doi.org/10.1027/0227...
