Prof. dr. Peter G. van der Velden (PhD) is a health-psychologist specialized in research on stress, (collective) trauma and mental health.
He is currently professor at the Department Tranzo, Scientific Center for Care and Welbeing, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University (Chair Victims and Menth Health) and senior-researcher at CentERdata since 2018. He was professor Victimology (2013-2017) and Mental health and disasters (2010-2012) at Tilburg University. In the years before, he was research manager, senior researcher, and senior consultant at the Institute for Psychotrauma (1988-2013).
He published a large number of studies aimed at the effects of stressful and potentially traumatic events such as violence, accidents, crisis, war and disasters on mental health including PTSD, substance abuse and mental health services utilization and on work. He is reviewer for about 30 peer-reviewed international Journals and serves as an Academic Editor of PLoS ONE.
Victims, Trauma, Violence, Accidents, Crisis, Disasters, PTSD, Mental Health, Social Support, Services Utilization, Coping self-efficacy, Resilience, Longitudinal research, Rescue workers, General population, LISS panel