Elke Veirman
Profile
In August 2015, Elke Veirman obtained her Phd in clinical psychology, entitled 'Emotional intelligence in children and adolescents: in search of a theoretical framework and improved assessment methods.' She examined how current ability emotional intelligence measurement approaches could be reconciled with contemporary emotion psychology. Central to this research was Scherer's (1984, 2009) appraisal theory of emotion. Since October 2016, Elke Veirman is working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology at Ghent University, Belgium. She is involved in the DOLORisk project (http://dolorisk.eu/), a European project on risk factors and determinants for neuropathic pain. Together with other involved colleagues, she examines the impact of psychosocial risk factors for neuropathic pain via the identification of the psychosocial risk profile for neuropathic pain, and the development of a screening tool for psychosocial risk factors for neuropathic pain. She recently started a two year inter-university training program Psycho-oncology at the Catholic University of Leuven.
Interests
- Psychological assessment
- Test and scale development
- Emotions
- Health psychology
- Pain
- Psycho-oncology
Meet the team
Meet our enthousiastic and lively team of professors, post-doctoral researchers, phd students and research assistants
Fleur Baert
Fleur graduated as a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology at Ghent University.
Maya Braun
Maya obtained her Master of Science in Clinical Psychology at Ghent University. After collecting experience in different areas of psychology during her student jobs, internships and theses, she joined the Health Psychology Lab of Ghent University as a doctoral student
Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez is Professor of Health Psychology in the Department of Experimental-Health Psychology at Ghent University.
Marie De Breucker
I obtained my Master of Science in Theoretical and Experimental Psychology at Ghent University in 2021. During my six month research internship at the Ghent Experimental Psychiatry Lab, where I investigated an attentional bias to food in patients with anorexia nervosa, my interest in research was further enhanced, especially involving clinical populations.
