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Francine Lamers-Winkelman, PhD
Professor Vrije University
Francien Lamers-Winkelman is a psychologist and a fully licensed child psychomotor therapist. She is a full Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogics of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The topic of her research and teaching is the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. She holds a masters degree in Human Movement Sciences, a masters degree in Pedagogy and a Ph.D. in Psychology. She is the co-ordinator of the first Children’s and Youth Trauma Center in the Netherlands (Haarlem). Her scientific work is on the assessment and treatment of child sexual abuse, children as witnesses, and children as witnesses and victims of interparental violence. She published a book (in Dutch) and many articles (in several languages) on child sexual abuse and other trauma’s in young children. Francien Lamers-Winkelman has given many lectures and workshops in The Netherlands and abroad. She has been a guest lecturer on several European Universities. Together with her co-workers at the Children’s and Youth Trauma Center she developed a combined-CBT program for sexually abused children and their non-offending parents.
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