Researcher

Wouter Vanderplasschen

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Current Position(s)

Associate professor

Department Chair

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Department of Special Needs Education (PP10)

Research unit(s)

Crime, Criminology and Criminal Policy

Emotional and Behavioural Disorders: Orthopedagogics and Special Education

Expert centre for Psychological Growth

Orthopedagogical Research in Context

PSYNC: Working together for mental health

Recovery, desistance and addiction

Research disciplines

Social sciences
- Psychopathology
- Behavioural and emotional problems
- Child welfare
- Orthopedagogical assessment and diagnostics
- Orthopedagogical interventions
- Orthopedagogics and special education not elsewhere classified
Medical and health sciences
- Behavioural sciences
- Mental healthcare services
- Residential health care
- Rehabilitation

Expertise

Recovery addiction drugs alcohol prevention treatment harm reduction reintegration case management

Bio

Wouter Vanderplasschen (PhD) is professor and head of the Department of Special Needs Education at Ghent University (Belgium). He is a senior researcher in the field of substance use treatment and recovery and coordinates the Addiction & Recovery research group at Ghent University. For the past 25 years, Wouter Vanderplasschen has studied the accessibility, effectiveness and quality of care in substance use treatment and addiction recovery in general. Recent projects focused on recovery pathways of persons who use drugs, natural recovery and patient-reported outcomes and experiences.