News Social and Behavioral Sciences

• Inaugural lecture: Shared decision-making as the basis for good mental health care

  16th May 2023

  Shared decision-making in mental health care is an essential ingredient of often longer-term therapeutic treatment relationships with patients and their loved ones. Particularly in the care of people with severe mental illness, this is an extra big task, but there are many gains to be made here, says professor Koen Grootens in his inaugural lecture on May 26.
  

  

• Grant for digital self-management platform for people with severe mental illness

  22nd March 2023

  Researchers from Tilburg University and partners received a grant for the development of a digital self-management platform for people with severe mental illness. The goal is to give this vulnerable group more control over their own mental health and thus reduce the pressure on mental health care.

  

• New research project develops app to counter online child abuse

  06th March 2023

  Tilburg University is participating in a major EU-funded research project to reduce the growing demand for online images depicting sexual abuse of children. The project focuses on preventing potential perpetrators from viewing and sharing abuse images.