Biography
Dr. Ruth Van der Hallen is an assistant professor of Clinical Psychology at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. In 2012, she obtained a Master of Science degree in Psychology at the KU Leuven, Belgium, majoring in Clinical and Health Psychology. In 2016, she obtained a Doctorate in Psychology for her dissertation titled “Little things, big things: Perceptual organization in children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)” and a Postgraduate degree in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for her dissertation titled “The fall of the Wall: On renewed (sexual) desire and identity” at the KU Leuven, Belgium.
Her current research is focused on "Resilience in face of mental health challenges". As a research and clinical psychologist, she investigates how each of us deals with adverse circumstances and aims to further our understanding of mental health. Current projects include (1) an international survey study on the impact of client suicide in mental health practicitioners, (2) a mixed-method investigation of the impact of COVID-19 on families with ASD, (3) a large-scale investigation of the relationship between coping, defense and our tendency to lie and (4) a citizen science-based intervention on coping and resilience in (young) children. Her research typically includes children, adolescents as well as adults, clinical and non-clinical pathology and a diverse range of research methods (longitudinal, cross-sectional, citizen science, interventional, network analysis). Topics of interest include individual differences, coping, trauma, suicide prevention, well-being, psychopathology, lying, secrecy, VR/AR technology, e-health, interventions, open science, network analyses and SEM. Open to collaborate and open to invites from the media.
In terms of teaching, Dr. Van der Hallen is active within the Bachelor in Psychology and Master in Clinical Psychology at the EUR. She is the coordinator of a master course on “Personality Disorders” and pratical on "CBT 2: Therapeutic Techniques", supervisor of both research and practical internships and facilitator of peer-to-peer consultation sessions. She is available as guest lecture on topics related to coping, personality (pathology) and psychodynamic practice.
Dr. Van der Hallen has been active as a clinical psychologist/psychotherapist since 2012. She specializes in one-on-one psychodynamic psychotherapy with adults that present with personality pathology, issues related to gender or sexual identity, (sexual) trauma, suicide survivors and loss.
Keywords: Individual differences; Coping; Personality; Personality pathology; Trauma; Loss; Adverse Life events; Secrecy; Suicide Survivors; Posttraumatic growth; Psychodynamic Therapy; Psychoanalysis; Autism; Information processing; Predictive Coding
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- vanderhallen@essb.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Ruth Van der Hallen (2021) - Suicide exposure and the impact of client suicide: A structural equation modeling approach - Archives of Suicide Research, 1-13 - doi: 10.1080/13811118.2021.2020190 - [link]
- Ruth Van der Hallen & Brian P Godor (2022) - Exploring the role of coping strategies on the impact of client suicide: A structural equation modeling approach - Omega: Journal of Death and Dying - doi: 10.1177/00302228211073213 - [link]
- Ruth Van der Hallen & Brian P. Godor (2022) - COVID-19 pandemic-related posttraumatic growth in a small cohort of university students: A 1-year longitudinal study - Psychiatry Research, 312 - doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114541 - [link]
- Linda Dekker, Linde Hooijman, Anneke Louwerse, Kirsten Visser, Dennis Bastiaansen, Leontine Ten Hoopen, Pieter De Nijs, Gwen Dieleman, Wietske Ester, Susan Van Rijen, Femke Truijens & Ruth Van Der Hallen (2022) - Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and their families: A mixed-methods study protocol - BMJ Open, 12 (1) - doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049336 - [link]
- Ruth Van der Hallen (3 October 2022) - Televisieseries over moordenaars: voor de een genieten, voor de ander een hel.
- Linda Dekker, Femke Truijens, Susan van Rijen & Ruth Van der Hallen (25 August 2022) - Impact van COVID-19 op gezinnen met kinderen met ASS: De impact op ouders & blik op de toekomst. [Webinar]
- Ruth Van der Hallen (30 March 2022) - Psyche and popcorn: a reflective movie night
- LP (Linda) Dekker, FL (Femke) Truijens, L.W.E. (Linde) Hooijman & RER (Ruth) Van der Hallen (10 December 2021) - The impact of COVID-19 on families with children with ASD – Implications for (mental) health care and educational professionals. (WEBINAR)
- Ruth Van der Hallen (31 October 2021) - Arachnaphobia online
- Linda Dekker & Ruth Van der Hallen (24 September 2021) - Voorlopige bevindingen – zorg en informatiebehoeften van gezinnen met kinderen met ASS. Science Hotel – Nacht van de onderzoeker.
- RER (Ruth) Van der Hallen (18 August 2021) - Peuters in tijden van corona. Mondkap af, knuffelen maar.
- RER (Ruth) Van der Hallen (8 July 2021) - Ruth Van der Hallen learned that it’s OK to make mistakes in therapy when she read De naakte therapeut
- RER (Ruth) Van der Hallen (24 March 2021) - Ruth Van der Hallen on how her citizen science project helps children become more resilient
- RER (Ruth) Van der Hallen (15 March 2021) - The impact of client suicide in mental health practitioners. [Webinar]
- RER (Ruth) Van der Hallen (15 March 2021) - De impact van cliënt suïcide in beoefenaars van een gezondheidsberoep. [Webinar]
- RER (Ruth) Van der Hallen & BP (Brian) Godor (18 January 2021) - Onderzoek naar veerkracht met en door kinderen in Rotterdam-Rijnmond.
- RER (Ruth) Van der Hallen & BP (Brian) Godor (11 January 2021) - Coping and resilience: A follow-up for parents. [Webinar]
- RER (Ruth) Van der Hallen & BP (Brian) Godor (23 November 2020) - Veerkracht onder basisscholieren via lessenreeks onderzocht.
- RER (Ruth) Van der Hallen (23 November 2020) - Onderzoek naar veerkracht met en door kinderen in Rotterdam-Rijnmond.
- Linda Dekker, Linde Hooijman, Ruth Van der Hallen, Anneke Louwerse, K (Kirsten) Visser, Dennis Bastiaansen, L ten Hoopen, Pieter de Nijs, Gwen Dieleman, WA (Wietske) Ester, Susan van Rijen & Femke Truijens (2022) - Care and informational needs of parents of children with ASD during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Ruth Van der Hallen (2021) - Attitudes Toward Suicide Predict Impact of Client Suicide: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
- Ruth Van der Hallen & Brian Godor (2021) - Exploring the Role of Coping Strategies on the Impact of Client Suicide: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach.
- Ruth Van der Hallen, Linde Hooijman, Anneke Louwerse, K (Kirsten) Visser, Dennis Bastiaansen, L ten Hoopen, Pieter de Nijs, Gwen Dieleman, WA (Wietske) Ester, Susan van Rijen, Femke Truijens & Linda Dekker (2020) - The impact of COVID-19 on children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and their families
- RER (Ruth) Van der Hallen (2020) - Commissie Testaangelegenheden Nederland (COTAN) (External organisation)
- Vebjorn Ekroll, Ruth Van der Hallen, B Sayim & Johan Wagemans (2015) - The shrunken finger illusion: Amodal volume completion can make your finger feel shorter.
- Johan Wagemans, Ruth Van der Hallen, Rebecca Chamberlain, Sander Van de Cruys & Lee de Wit (2014) - (in)Validating measures of local and global processing.
- Kris Evers, Ruth Van der Hallen, Bart Boets, Birgit Haesen, Lien Van Eylen & Johan Wagemans (2014) - Components of visual perceptual organization in ASD: An overview of behavioral and fMRI evidence using Gabor patterns
- Ruth Van der Hallen & Yuhan Hu (2022) - Social and emotional well-being of student in school context: a cross-cultural perspective
- Matthias Wieser, Marta Andreatta, Ruth Van der Hallen, Yvonne van Everdingen, Janna Papma, Anita Jamshidnejad, Bart De Schutter, Rafael Bidarra & Michael Weinmann (2021) - The use of state-of-the-art VR technologies for diagnosis and treatment of socio-affective cognition deficits in mental disorders – From bench to bedside
- Ruth Van der Hallen & Novika Purnama Sari (2021) - The use of state-of-the-art VR technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
- Linda Dekker, Ruth Van der Hallen, Susan van Rijen & Femke Truijens (2021) - Closing webinar on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on families with children with autism spectrum disorder
- LP (Linda) Dekker, RER (Ruth) Van der Hallen, EHM (Susan) van Rijen, FL (Femke) Truijens, K (Kirsten) Visser, S.C. (Anneke) Louwerse & D Bastiaansen (2020) - ZonMW – COVID-19 second wave focus area 2 – Bottom up
- Ruth Van der Hallen (2019) - Drones interacting with children with autism via dance-movement therapy.
Zelfstandige in bijberoep
- Start date approval
- July 2022
- End date approval
- July 2025
- Place
- THERAPIECENTRUM ZANDHOVE
- Description
- Klinische psychotherapie
4.2C Personality Disorders
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- FSWP4034K