BACKGROUND: Asset-based approaches have become popular in public health. As yet it is not known to what extent health and welfare professionals are able to identify and mobilise individual and community health assets. Therefore, the aim of this study was to understand professional's perceptions of health …

Health promotion for senior citizens ('seniors') is an increasingly important factor in health and welfare policy, having important implications for occupational therapy. The health promotion program 'Healthy and Active Aging' originated in the US, has been modified and adapted to the Dutch context and …

Het lectoraat noemt dit Next Education, Next Governance en Next Business. Het lectoraat is nauw verbonden met Buurtsamenwerking Helpman/de Wijert, waarin alle hiervoor genoemde modellen tot uiting komen. In de Buurtsamenwerking wordt gezamenlijk een weg gezocht om ondernemers, overheid, wijkbewoners …

Conferentie in het kader van de kennisdisseminatie van Ruimte voor Nieuwe Energie, in samenwerking met de RUG

In our recently started multiple case study - funded by the Netherlands Scientific Board (NWO) - on these processes of collaboration, we focused on the dynamics in growing partnerships between citizens, community social workers and civil servants. Three cases of social neighbourhood initiatives are presented …

‘Supporting people in their community roles: from skills to hope’, was de titel die prof. dr. Marianne Farkas gaf aan haar Masterclass bij het Lectoraat Rehabilitatie van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen. Marianne Farkas, ScD is al ruim 25 jaar Clinical Professor en hoofd van het Onderzoeks- en Trainingscentrum …

Supported education for (young) people with psychiatric disabilities

This article is about the effect of local tailored interventions to counter (violent) extremism, and therefore contributes to the academic and policy debates. It focusses on local, professional perspectives on person-specific interventions utilising a Dutch case study as the basis. The interventions …