Tine Vervoort

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Tine Vervoort is an Associate Research Professor at the Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology. Dr. Vervoort came to her career as a research psychologist interested in pediatric psychology with a background in psychiatric (child/adolescent) nursing (BSc — 1998) and clinical psychology (MSc — 2003). She became intrigued in pediatric pain research during her clinical psychology internship (2001) at the Bath Centre for Pain Services (UK) where she worked on a newly developed adolescent chronic pain programme. Having completed her PhD in clinical psychology on social determinants of child pain expression (2008 — Ghent University) she has systematically conceptualized the dynamic interaction between children in pain and caregivers in terms that facilitate empirical study of family socialization and social context as determinants of child pain experience. Drawing upon an affective-motivational account of pain, she has developed a theoretically integrative and clinically informative program of research addressing:

1. (social) determinants of child pain expression and experience;
2. the role and interrelationship of child pain-related attention and memory biases;
3. the role of observer pain-related appraisals and emotion regulation in understanding observers' emotional and behavioural responses
4. mechanisms underlying racial and gender/sex disparities in (child) pain care;

Dr. Vervoort has an extensive network of national and international collaborations in Canada (IWK Children's Hospital in Halifax; University of (Northern) British Columbia, Vancouver; University of Guelph; University of Calgary; Alberta Children's hospital research institute), the United States (University of Indianapolis), the UK (Oxford University) and elsewhere. Her work has been presented at numerous international congresses and published within internationally peer-reviewed papers. She is likewise the recipient of a number of prestigious national and international awards/grants including the EFIC Grünenthal Award (EGG — 2009) for innovative and exploratory clinical pain research, the IASP Ulf Lindblom Young Investigator Award (2014) for outstanding contributions to clinical pain research and the the Early Career Grant of the IASP Pain in Childhood (2019). She also coordinates and works as clinical psychologist within her own multidisciplinary clinical practice PRAKTIJK50. She is also the proud mother of 4 boys.

Interests

• Interpersonal dynamics of pain
• Children
• Parents
• Emotion (regulation)
• Empathy
• Memory bias
• Attention bias
• Disparities in pain care
• Racism
• Gender/sex