 De collaborative centre of mental health was founded in 2001, 20 jaar geleden. Het is een collaboratie tussen Tilburg University en 2 big mental health institutes, Gegeze Breburg en Gegeze Eindhoven. Ik werk zelf als science practitioner in de collaborative mental health centre. En ik werk als een klinische psychotherapist en de head of departments in Gegeze Breburg. Ik ben fascinatisch over de vraag hoe om psychotherapeutische troepen voor oudere adulten te adapten. De vaste mevrouwtie van onze kennis concernert de jonge mensen. En er is wat kennis over de enthousiëntie en de depressie en de aandacht. Maar heel little is known about personality disorders, autism, somatic symptom disorders. There's a world to discover there. The research concerns, well the first step in research is doing feasibility studies. Just trying out new treatments that we've devised. Next step is bigger trials, for instance a randomized controlled trial on nursing interventions for personality disorders of older people and how to cope with them. But also some other designs like multiple baseline designs into schema therapy for older people. In this kind of design we compare patients with themselves so we don't need a large control group. The research I conduct are into adapting psychotherapeutic treatments for older people and it concerns small trials like feasibility trials trying to find out whether a specific treatment works in older people, for instance with personality disorders. There are also larger trials like a randomized controlled trial for nursing interventions designed to help nurses cope better with behavioral problems in older people with personality disorders. Een ander type of design is multiple baseline design. It's designed to compare patients with themselves so you don't need a large control group. Compensates for the heterogeneity of older people. I'm an endowed professor of community mental health. And I also have a position at the Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction. It's in the Netherlands called the Trimmels Institute. En mijn main focus is on people with severe mental illness and their well-being and the care they get in the Netherlands or abroad. In my research my main focus is on the Netherlands, on research on the system, on the services, on the lives people live. We do also research in Eastern Europe. It's focused on disseminating and studying the effectiveness of community mental health teams. Because what we do in the Netherlands is also of interest for Eastern Europe so we are disseminating our knowledge to Eastern Europe. I'm a senior researcher. I study antisocial behavior. In GGZ West Noord-Brabant, it's a large mental health institute, I work as a clinician also working with antisocial personality disorder. I'm very much interested in antisocial behavior in why some people are reluctant to adjust themselves to social rules and why some people are not responsive to the feelings and emotions of other people. We want to discover what kind of mechanisms and what kind of processes are behind that behavior. We do that by the means of virtual reality worlds. We expose them to different social situations to learn how they behave in that way. We do also qualitative research about the therapeutic relationship between therapists and antisocial patients to see what happens and how we can improve therapies for this group. I work at the Academic Collaborative Centre of Mental Health at Transo for almost 20 years now. At the moment I'm a senior researcher in this centre. I'm also affiliated at Quintus, which is a supported housing organisation, and I work as head of research. In my research we focus on the disruptive effects of having a severe mental illness, especially when it is a long-lasting problem. It affects all kinds of different life domains. It involves your social life, but also your work and your roles, and most importantly your self-image. What we do in our research is focusing on how can we support these people in their recovery on these areas. In our research programme we work together for instance with mental health psychologists to work further on interventions and strengthen them. For instance we make intervention descriptions and we can use qualitative research methods to do that. We also for instance perform randomized controlled trials to try to build on the evidence base of specific interventions we already have.