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Julie J. Janssens @juliejns2.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

🚨 New paper out! We studied how loneliness relates to self-harm in adolescents in real time, and how parent–child attachment shapes this link, thereby offering key insights into when and why adolescents self-harm and what we can do to help. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Julie J. Janssens @juliejns2.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

🗣️ I was interviewed by Observer, the magazine of the Association of Psychological Science (APS). It was great to be able to explain my findings on the link between loneliness and self-harm/suicidality among young people! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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Predicting Suicide

Researchers are exploring ways to gauge who is most at risk and help develop targeted treatments for their most vulnerable moments.

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Julie J. Janssens @juliejns2.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

🎉 Starting this Friday, I’m launching a new Instagram page to translate science on youth mental health in a clear and accessible way. As a researcher and therapist, I see how difficult, but important it is to do this. 📅 First post drops this Friday! 📍 Instagram: [@dr.julieJanssens]

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Center for Contextual Psychiatry @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Exciting news!🤩 @juliejns2.bsky.social has advanced to the second round of the Falling Walls competition! She’ll pitch on preventing self-harm and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Let’s support her to win the audience award and to go to the international finals in Berlin! #FallingWalls #MentalHealth

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Center for Contextual Psychiatry @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Huge congrats to our very own @juliejns2.bsky.social for winning the Audience Award at Falling Walls Lab Leuven! 🎉 Her inspiring and heartfelt pitch on 'Breaking the wall of Self-harm Prevention' captivated the audience! A well-deserved recognition for her impactful research! 🚀👏 #FallingWallsLab

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Julie J. Janssens @juliejns2.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Selected for the Falling Walls Lab competition and taking home the audience choice award! 🤝❤️💪 #selfharm #prevention

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Julie J. Janssens @juliejns2.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Check this out 🤓 doi.org/10.31234/osf... This is the 1st study that provides insights into the role of adverse childhood experiences (such as sexual abuse and bullying) in real-time, daily-life self-harm thoughts and behaviours in a large group of Flemish adolescents. @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social

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Julie J. Janssens @juliejns2.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

✨ Reflecting on my PhD journey, where I delivered 6 key papers (1/6): 🔍 Are #adolescents with more insecure #attachment relationships more at risk for lifetime and current #self-harm thoughts and behaviours? --> Published the first-ever Registered Report on self-harm! doi.org/10.1027/0227...

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Lifetime and Current Self-Harm Thoughts and Behaviors and Their Relationship to Parent and Peer Attachment | Crisis

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