Julie J. Janssens
@juliejns2.bsky.social
Psychologist, Family Therapist, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Contextual Psychiatry, KU Leuven and U Antwerp. Adolescent #mentalhealth, #experiencesampling, #Attachment, #Parent-childRelationships, #SelfHarm & #suicide researcher, #OpenScience.
🚨 New paper out!
We studied how loneliness relates to self-harm in adolescents in real time, and how parent–child attachment shapes this link, thereby offering key insights into when and why adolescents self-harm and what we can do to help.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We studied how loneliness relates to self-harm in adolescents in real time, and how parent–child attachment shapes this link, thereby offering key insights into when and why adolescents self-harm and what we can do to help.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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July 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🚨 New paper out!
We studied how loneliness relates to self-harm in adolescents in real time, and how parent–child attachment shapes this link, thereby offering key insights into when and why adolescents self-harm and what we can do to help.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We studied how loneliness relates to self-harm in adolescents in real time, and how parent–child attachment shapes this link, thereby offering key insights into when and why adolescents self-harm and what we can do to help.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🗣️ I was interviewed by Observer, the magazine of the Association of Psychological Science (APS). It was great to be able to explain my findings on the link between loneliness and self-harm/suicidality among young people!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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Predicting Suicide
Researchers are exploring ways to gauge who is most at risk and help develop targeted treatments for their most vulnerable moments.
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May 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
🗣️ I was interviewed by Observer, the magazine of the Association of Psychological Science (APS). It was great to be able to explain my findings on the link between loneliness and self-harm/suicidality among young people!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
🎉 Starting this Friday, I’m launching a new Instagram page to translate science on youth mental health in a clear and accessible way.
As a researcher and therapist, I see how difficult, but important it is to do this.
📅 First post drops this Friday!
📍 Instagram: [@dr.julieJanssens]
As a researcher and therapist, I see how difficult, but important it is to do this.
📅 First post drops this Friday!
📍 Instagram: [@dr.julieJanssens]
May 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🎉 Starting this Friday, I’m launching a new Instagram page to translate science on youth mental health in a clear and accessible way.
As a researcher and therapist, I see how difficult, but important it is to do this.
📅 First post drops this Friday!
📍 Instagram: [@dr.julieJanssens]
As a researcher and therapist, I see how difficult, but important it is to do this.
📅 First post drops this Friday!
📍 Instagram: [@dr.julieJanssens]
Reposted by Julie J. Janssens
Exciting news!🤩 @juliejns2.bsky.social has advanced to the second round of the Falling Walls competition! She’ll pitch on preventing self-harm and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Let’s support her to win the audience award and to go to the international finals in Berlin! #FallingWalls #MentalHealth
March 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Exciting news!🤩 @juliejns2.bsky.social has advanced to the second round of the Falling Walls competition! She’ll pitch on preventing self-harm and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Let’s support her to win the audience award and to go to the international finals in Berlin! #FallingWalls #MentalHealth
Reposted by Julie J. Janssens
Huge congrats to our very own @juliejns2.bsky.social for winning the Audience Award at Falling Walls Lab Leuven! 🎉
Her inspiring and heartfelt pitch on 'Breaking the wall of Self-harm Prevention' captivated the audience! A well-deserved recognition for her impactful research! 🚀👏 #FallingWallsLab
Her inspiring and heartfelt pitch on 'Breaking the wall of Self-harm Prevention' captivated the audience! A well-deserved recognition for her impactful research! 🚀👏 #FallingWallsLab
March 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Huge congrats to our very own @juliejns2.bsky.social for winning the Audience Award at Falling Walls Lab Leuven! 🎉
Her inspiring and heartfelt pitch on 'Breaking the wall of Self-harm Prevention' captivated the audience! A well-deserved recognition for her impactful research! 🚀👏 #FallingWallsLab
Her inspiring and heartfelt pitch on 'Breaking the wall of Self-harm Prevention' captivated the audience! A well-deserved recognition for her impactful research! 🚀👏 #FallingWallsLab
Selected for the Falling Walls Lab competition and taking home the audience choice award! 🤝❤️💪 #selfharm #prevention
March 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Selected for the Falling Walls Lab competition and taking home the audience choice award! 🤝❤️💪 #selfharm #prevention
Check this out 🤓 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
This is the 1st study that provides insights into the role of adverse childhood experiences (such as sexual abuse and bullying) in real-time, daily-life self-harm thoughts and behaviours in a large group of Flemish adolescents.
@oliviajkirtley.bsky.social
This is the 1st study that provides insights into the role of adverse childhood experiences (such as sexual abuse and bullying) in real-time, daily-life self-harm thoughts and behaviours in a large group of Flemish adolescents.
@oliviajkirtley.bsky.social
OSF
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March 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Check this out 🤓 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
This is the 1st study that provides insights into the role of adverse childhood experiences (such as sexual abuse and bullying) in real-time, daily-life self-harm thoughts and behaviours in a large group of Flemish adolescents.
@oliviajkirtley.bsky.social
This is the 1st study that provides insights into the role of adverse childhood experiences (such as sexual abuse and bullying) in real-time, daily-life self-harm thoughts and behaviours in a large group of Flemish adolescents.
@oliviajkirtley.bsky.social
✨ Reflecting on my PhD journey, where I delivered 6 key papers (1/6):
🔍 Are #adolescents with more insecure #attachment relationships more at risk for lifetime and current #self-harm thoughts and behaviours?
--> Published the first-ever Registered Report on self-harm!
doi.org/10.1027/0227...
🔍 Are #adolescents with more insecure #attachment relationships more at risk for lifetime and current #self-harm thoughts and behaviours?
--> Published the first-ever Registered Report on self-harm!
doi.org/10.1027/0227...
Lifetime and Current Self-Harm Thoughts and Behaviors and Their Relationship to Parent and Peer Attachment | Crisis
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October 8, 2024 at 10:38 AM
✨ Reflecting on my PhD journey, where I delivered 6 key papers (1/6):
🔍 Are #adolescents with more insecure #attachment relationships more at risk for lifetime and current #self-harm thoughts and behaviours?
--> Published the first-ever Registered Report on self-harm!
doi.org/10.1027/0227...
🔍 Are #adolescents with more insecure #attachment relationships more at risk for lifetime and current #self-harm thoughts and behaviours?
--> Published the first-ever Registered Report on self-harm!
doi.org/10.1027/0227...