dr.

(Ruth) RER Van der Hallen

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Dr. Ruth Van der Hallen is an assistant professor of Clinical Psychology at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. In 2012, she obtained a Master of Science degree in Psychology at the KU Leuven, Belgium, whilst majoring in Clinical and Health Psychology. In 2016, she obtained a Ph.D. degree in Psychology for her doctoral dissertation titled “Little things, big things: Perceptual organization in children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)” and a Postgraduate Degree in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, for her dissertation titled “The fall of the Wall: On renewed (sexual) desire and identity” at the KU Leuven, Belgium.

For her current research, dr. Van der Hallen is relying on her multidisciplinary background, investigating the interplay between coping, personality and the aftermath of trauma, in particular, trauma related to suicide. As such, she is currently conducting a multi-country investigation into the emotional and professional impact of client suicide on mental health practitioners as well as investigating the relationship between coping and resiliency by means of network analysis.

Her teaching responsibilities include coordinating a course on “Personality Disorder and Identity” (MSc), a practical on "CBT 2: Therapeutic Techniques" (MSc) and a practical on "Neuropsychological Diagnostics II" (BA3), in addition to supervising both research and practical internships and providing guest-lectures. She also engages in extracurricular activities that are organized by the university like Well-Being week, Local2Global research projects and CBT group training for students struggling with perfectionism.

Dr. Van der Hallen has been active as a clinical psychologist/psychotherapist since 2012. She specializes in one-on-one psychoanalytic psychotherapy with adults that present with personality pathology, issues related to gender or sexual identity, (sexual) trauma, suicide survivors and loss.

Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorder; Autism; Vision; Visual processing; Information processing; Predictive Coding; Suicide; Suicide Survivors; Psychodynamic Therapy; Psychoanalysis; Personality Pathology

• Featured publications (5)

  • R.E.R. Van der Hallen, J. Jongerling & B.P. Godor (2020). Coping and resilience in adults: a cross-sectional network analysis. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 33 (5), 479-496. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2020.1772969 [go to publisher's site]
  • R.E.R. van der Hallen, C. Manning, K. Evers & J. Wagemans (2019). Global Motion Perception in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49, 4901-4918. doi: 10.1007/s10803-019-04194-8
  • J. Wagemans, K. Evers & R.E.R. Van der Hallen (2015). Centrale Coherentie. In Autismespectrumstoornis: Interdisciplinair basisboek. Leusden, Nederland: Diagnosis Uitgevers doi: 10.1007/978-90-368-2042-4_7
  • R.E.R. Van der Hallen, K. Evers, K. Brewaeys, W. Van den Noortgate & J. Wagemans (2015). Global processing takes time: A meta-analysis on local–global visual processing in ASD. Psychological Bulletin (USA), 141 (3), 549-573. doi: 10.1037/bul0000004
  • S. Van de Cruys, K. Evers, R.E.R. Van der Hallen, L. Van Eylen, B. Boets, L. de-Wit & J. Wagemans (2014). Precise minds in uncertain worlds: predictive coding in autism. Psychological Review, 121 (4), 649-675. doi: 10.1037/a0037665

• All publications (28)

  • Key publication (5)

    • R.E.R. Van der Hallen, J. Jongerling & B.P. Godor (2020). Coping and resilience in adults: a cross-sectional network analysis. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 33 (5), 479-496. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2020.1772969 [go to publisher's site]
    • R.E.R. van der Hallen, C. Manning, K. Evers & J. Wagemans (2019). Global Motion Perception in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49, 4901-4918. doi: 10.1007/s10803-019-04194-8
    • J. Wagemans, K. Evers & R.E.R. Van der Hallen (2015). Centrale Coherentie. In Autismespectrumstoornis: Interdisciplinair basisboek. Leusden, Nederland: Diagnosis Uitgevers doi: 10.1007/978-90-368-2042-4_7
    • R.E.R. Van der Hallen, K. Evers, K. Brewaeys, W. Van den Noortgate & J. Wagemans (2015). Global processing takes time: A meta-analysis on local–global visual processing in ASD. Psychological Bulletin (USA), 141 (3), 549-573. doi: 10.1037/bul0000004
    • S. Van de Cruys, K. Evers, R.E.R. Van der Hallen, L. Van Eylen, B. Boets, L. de-Wit & J. Wagemans (2014). Precise minds in uncertain worlds: predictive coding in autism. Psychological Review, 121 (4), 649-675. doi: 10.1037/a0037665

  • Article (20)

    • R.E.R. Van der Hallen, J. Jongerling & B.P. Godor (2020). Coping and resilience in adults: a cross-sectional network analysis. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 33 (5), 479-496. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2020.1772969 [go to publisher's site]
    • R.E.R. van der Hallen, C. Manning, K. Evers & J. Wagemans (2019). Global Motion Perception in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49, 4901-4918. doi: 10.1007/s10803-019-04194-8
    • K. Evers, R.E.R. van der Hallen, I. Noens & J. Wagemans (2018). Perceptual organization in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Child Development Perspectives, 12 (3), 177-182. doi: 10.1111/cdep.12280
    • R.E.R. van der Hallen, R. Chamberlain, L. de-Wit & J. Wagemans (2018). Superior disembedding in children with ASD: New tests using abstract, meaningful, and 3D contexts. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48, 2478-2489. doi: 10.1007/s10803-018-3508-y
    • R.E.R. Van der Hallen, J. Reusens, K. Evers, L. de-Wit & J. Wagemans (2018). Connection-based and object-based grouping in multiple-object tracking: A developmental study. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 36 (4), 606-619. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12245
    • H. Huygerlier, R.E.R. Van der Hallen, J. Wagemans, L. de-Wit & R. Chamberlain (2018). The Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): Measuring Perception, Intelligence or Executive Function? PeerJ : the journal of life and environmental sciences, 26 (6):e4524. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4524
    • R.E.R. Van der Hallen, K. Evers, L. de-Wit, J. Steyaert & J. Wagemans (2018). Multiple object tracking reveals object-based grouping interference in children with ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48 (4), 1341-1349. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2463-0
    • L. de-Wit, H. Huygerlier, R.E.R. Van der Hallen, R. Chamberlain & J. Wagemans (2017). Developing The Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): Testing the stimulus features that influence embedding. PeerJ : the journal of life and environmental sciences, 5:e2862. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2862
    • S. Van de Cruys, R.E.R. Van der Hallen & J. Wagemans (2017). Disentangling signal and noise in autism spectrum disorder. Brain and Cognition, 112, 78-83. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2016.08.004
    • R.E.R. Van der Hallen, S. Vanmarcke, I. Noens & J. Wagemans (2017). Hierarchical letters in ASD: High stimulus variability under different attentional modes. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47 (6), 1845-1865. doi: 10.1007/s10803-017-3108-2
    • R.E.R. Van der Hallen, L. Lemmens, J. Steyaert, I. Noens & J. Wagemans (2017). Ensemble Perception in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Member-Identification Versus Mean-Discrimination. Autism Research, 10 (7), 1291-1299. doi: 10.1002/aur.1767
    • R. Chamberlain, R.E.R. Van der Hallen, H. Huygerlier, S. Van de Cruys & J. Wagemans (2017). Local–global processing bias is not a unitary individual difference in visual processing. Vision Research, 141, 247-257. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2017.01.008
    • V. Ekroll, B. Sayim, R.E.R. Van der Hallen & J. Wagemans (2016). Illusory visual completion of an object’s invisible backside can make your finger feel shorter. Current Biology, 26 (8), 1029-1033. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.001
    • S. Vanmarcke, L. Van Esch, R.E.R. Van der Hallen, K. Evers, I. Noens, J. Steyaert & J. Wagemans (2016). Gist perception in adolescents with and without ASD: Ultra-rapid categorization of meaningful real-life scenes. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 29-30, 30-47. doi: 10.1016/j.rasd.2016.05.007
    • S. Vanmarcke, C. Mullin, R.E.R. Van der Hallen, K. Evers, I. Noens, J. Steyaert & J. Wagemans (2016). In the eye of the beholder: Rapid visual perception of real-life scenes by young adults with and without ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46 (8), 2635-2652. doi: 10.1007/s10803-016-2802-9
    • R.E.R. Van der Hallen, K. Evers, B. Boets, J. Steyaert, I. Noens & J. Wagemans (2016). Visual search in ASD: Instructed versus spontaneous local and global processing. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46 (9), 3023-3036. doi: 10.1007/s10803-016-2826-1
    • S. Vanmarcke, R.E.R. Van der Hallen, K. Evers, I. Noens, J. Steyaert & J. Wagemans (2016). Ultra-rapid categorization of meaningful real-life scenes in adults with and without ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46 (2), 450-466. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2583-6
    • R.E.R. Van der Hallen, K. Evers, K. Brewaeys, W. Van den Noortgate & J. Wagemans (2015). Global processing takes time: A meta-analysis on local–global visual processing in ASD. Psychological Bulletin (USA), 141 (3), 549-573. doi: 10.1037/bul0000004
    • K. Evers, L. de-Wit, R.E.R. Van der Hallen, B. Haesen, J. Steyaert, I. Noens & J. Wagemans (2014). Brief report: Reduced grouping interference in children with ASD: evidence from a Multiple Object Tracking Task. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44 (7), 1779-1787. doi: 10.1007/s10803-013-2031-4
    • S. Van de Cruys, K. Evers, R.E.R. Van der Hallen, L. Van Eylen, B. Boets, L. de-Wit & J. Wagemans (2014). Precise minds in uncertain worlds: predictive coding in autism. Psychological Review, 121 (4), 649-675. doi: 10.1037/a0037665

  • Part of book - Chapter (1)

    • J. Wagemans, K. Evers & R.E.R. Van der Hallen (2015). Centrale Coherentie. In Autismespectrumstoornis: Interdisciplinair basisboek. Leusden, Nederland: Diagnosis Uitgevers doi: 10.1007/978-90-368-2042-4_7

  • Book review (1)

    • R.E.R. Van der Hallen (2016). De multiculturele therapeut. [Bespreking van het boek Identities in transition: The Growth and Development of a Multicultural Therapist]. Tijdschrift voor Psychoanalyse, 22(3), 228-229.

  • Doctoral thesis (1)

    • R.E.R. Van der Hallen (2016, december 21). Little things, big things: Perceptual organization in children with and without ASD. KU Leuven (250 pag.) Prom./coprom.: J. Wagemans, I. Noens & J. Steyaert.

• Ancillary activities (1)

  Zelfstandige in bijberoep

  Start date approval

  Jan/2019

  End date approval

  Jan/2022

  Place

  THERAPIECENTRUM ZANDHOVE

  Description

  Klinische psychotherapie

• Teaching (3)

  4.2P CBT 1 - Assessment

  Title

  4.2P CBT 1 - Assessment

  Year

  2020

  4.3P CBT 2 Therapeutic Techniques

  Title

  4.3P CBT 2 Therapeutic Techniques

  Year

  2020

  4.2C Personality Disorders

  Title

  4.2C Personality Disorders

  Year

  2020

• Present position

  Assistant Professor

  University

  Erasmus University Rotterdam

  School

  Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  Department

  Department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies/ Clinical Psychology

  Country

  The Netherlands

  Telephone

  498485150